Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser From: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: 1084s goes poof. Film at 11. Message-ID: <8097@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 24 Oct 88 06:00:21 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 68 What have been the general experiences of you good people who have purchased CBM 1084S monitors? For the first 6 months of its life (starting Oct. '85) my A1000 was hooked to a CBM 1701 color composite tube until I could save enough money to buy a 1080. The 1080 lasted for 2.5 years, snapping and arcing, and occasionally going so far as to shut itself off (requiring a cycling of the power switch after a couple minutes' wait to get a picture back). The hotter and more humid the weather, the worse the 1080 got. Finally two weeks ago the 1080 arc'd and snapped for the last time, the screen went black and that was all she wrote. I left it off half a day and upon applying power again, still black. Sooooo... doing a deal with my nearby friendly dealer, I traded my dead 1080 (which his tech intended to fix and use on his bench in the back) for a pristine sealed new 1084S and some cash. The 1084S was installed on my A1000 using the supplied cable and following all instructions and within 10 minutes of powering up it started mildly snapping too. Not as violently as the 1080 had but still there. (At this point I should parenthetically mention that my dealer is a huge shop, he has TWELVE Amigas - all models - set up for demos, and at least 8 of them have 1084 or 1084S monitors on them, and ALL of them *snap* to some degree or another, so I don't believe it's my computer, the cable, my electricity, the tap bar all my stuff is plugged into, nor anything else I'm doing. I get my juice from So. California Edison). So merrily I use the 1084S for two weeks when tonite, with TWO witnesses, I load up a demo animation I had run many times before and the 1084S gives a loud "fritzzzzz" sound, a flash of white on the screen, dissolve to black, and this was accompanied by the distinct smell of something electrical burning coming out the top vents. (Didn't see any smoke though). Cycling power to the monitor proved fruitless. The screen remained black. So.. back it goes tomorrow to the dealer for a replacement, most likely another of the same breed unless he has by now fixed my original 1080 in which case I'll beg for it back. I was told by the dealer's tech words to the effect that "CBM has made a lot of improvements in the 1084s... they don't arc and snap anymore" but I found this to be completely untrue. It's easy to say "geesh, Harv, buy a Sony Multiscan" or words to that effect. It's not easy to tell Harv's checkbook to fasten its seatbelt to accomodate the sudden jolt such a purchase would cause. So to those of you with 1084S monitors... how are you making out with them? Do they snap and arc and fritz? Any been purchased DOA or croaked soon thereafter? What I'd REALLY like to get my mits on would be one of the original 1070 Developer's monitors. They had the best color saturation and tightest dot pitch of any CBM-Amiga tube I've ever seen... but the people who have them just don't want to part with them, for obvious reasons :-) Harv Laser, Sysop, The People/Link AmigaZone. Plink: CBM*HARV UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!hrlaser INET: hrlaser@pnet02.cts.com <---open Push down while turning close tightly--->