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From: sequent!ccssrv!perry@tektronix.TEK.COM (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: PC Multisync monitors on a Sun
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Date: 19 Oct 89 19:55:29 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 172, message 7 of 19

In article <2085@brazos.Rice.edu> David Hayes writes:
> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 158, message 13 of 21
> I have two Sun-3 color monitors [which] need new flyback transformers
> (about $180 each), but Sun refuses to sell the necessary part.  They
> will repair the monitors for $1500 each.
> I refuse to pay such extortion ...  I'm thinking of using a PC multi-sync
> type monitor on the Suns ...

I can't be sure about color, but the Sun monochrome monitor's horizontal
frequency exceeds the upper limit of a Mitsubishi Diamond Scan monitor by
something like a factor of 2 or 3.

I'd suggest checking with a third-party maintenance company.  We have
recently started dealing with Apex, in the Seattle area.  (Too recently to
recommend, either good or bad.)  I think there is one somewhere around
Boston, also, and there are probably others.  I think we found Apex
through an ad in Unix World.

Another approach would be to take the back off of the monitor, find the
actual manufacturer, and see if they will sell repair parts.  Most of our
B/W "Sun" monitors are actually made by Phillips.  The color monitors may
also be from someone other than Sun.