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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FlickerFixer owners
Message-ID: <1899@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 00:10:29 GMT
References: <4668@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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From article <4668@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, by barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett):
> 	Is it possible, and safe, to hook up some kind of A/B switchbox
> like this?
> 
>                  FlickerFixer video out -----
>                                              \
>                                               X---------> monitor
>                                              /
>                  Original video port out ----
> 
> Would it be safe to "flip the switch" while the monitor and computer are
> on?  How about with computer on, monitor off?

I've done exactly this, based on another netter's suggestion. I bought a
DB-9 switchbox for about $15-20, and just plugged in the cables. You
will need a DB-23 to DB-9 cable that matches the pinouts of the DB-9 end
of your flickerFixer cable, the stock A1080 cable will not work. 

Switching with both the computer and the monitor powered up has caused
mot problems at all over the past year or so that I've been using the
switchbox. One suggestion, you might want to spend a little more on the
switchbox than I did. I've got an intermittent contact on the green
video pins of the switchbox that I've got to track down and fix. This
showed up after 6-9 months of use.
 
> 	An official answer from a CBM person would be best!

I surely don't qualify there, but it has worked just fine for me. And I
had a little fun with the switchbox label, it looks like:

	  __ Flicker
	 /
	O
	 \__ Fixer
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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