Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpf!bird
From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Weird monitor problem
Message-ID: <8829@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 89 00:33:51 GMT
References: <8906211109.aa02636@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <8906211109.aa02636@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET ("Josef W. Wankerl"):
> I had the exact same problem with my monitor a while back.  It's the
> fly back transformer. (text deleted)
> This sounds like something might be flaky with the RGB
> architecture if things like this go wrong a lot, but maybe it's just
> a chance type thing...

The flyback circuitry is where much of the power in any vdt is
consumed and since power translates to heat &/or wear, that is
where such things tend to break.

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