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From: rick@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: How did this program burn out two m
Message-ID: <54200002@datacube>
Date: 2 Jun 88 16:47:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!rick    Jun  2 12:47:00 1988


>Maybe the files got corrupted.  When I ran the .exe file, my monitor
>made a high-pitched whine, then the power light went off, and a 
>crackling noise came out of the back until I pulled the power cord.
>Curious about whether this was a coincidence, I took the program
>to work and tried it on an extra monitor I had there.........


	Actually, another famous mode of 'Monitor Meltdown' can occur.
	Since the yoke looks like a nice big inductor in the circuit,
	you can create an 'inductor oven' by feeding it synch's at
	100 Khz or higher. This will heat the yoke up to above the
	melting point of glass, and the monitor implodes, (pretty
	spectacular). I suspect the whine may have been this mode of
	failure and the crackling noise you heard was melting
	insulation and glass.


				Rick Cooley
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