/yawn/ now I'm bored with pulling the wings off this fly.


As one final suggestion (and I do mean final), I recommend that Twist take the back off his monitor, plug it in, put on a blindfold, and attempt to fix it with a screwdriver.

 

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Maglett: it's called a "Flyback" .. and for good reason *grins*

<3 Weezing.


Maglett, thanks for the tip, I know how to protect myself from power surges, I'm not entirely daft


Chazcon, nice to see you don't even pretend to have any argument anymore.

 

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<< From what I've heard playing inside a CRT monitor can be fairly dangerous>>


As one that has worked with CRT's in the past, you are correct. I saw someone get knocked across the room due to not discharging the tube correctly before working on it.

 

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<< Maglett, thanks for the tip, I know how to protect myself from power surges, I'm not entirely daft >>


This isn't a power surge, this is electricity being stored in the CRT, which is acting like a capacitor. Unless you know how to properly ground a CRT to work on it, then you shouldn't be working on them.

 

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