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From: kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: shaky 1084, also power surge (?) monitor jumping
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Date: 13 Feb 90 14:52:43 GMT
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    Date: 8 Feb 90 14:46:04 GMT
    From: Steve Morris <sjm%sun.acs.udel.edu@ee.udel.edu>

    In article <10675@saturn.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
    >In article <10441@baldrick.udel.EDU> "kosma@ALAN.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
    >>
    >>On the other hand, I have had a shaky monitor problem lately.  Every
    >>twenty to thirty minutes, there's some sort of a "pop" and the screen
    >>jumps, kind of like a power surge.  It *could* be a power surge--I just
    >>moved into a new house so who knows what the circuits are like--but I
    >
    >    This is a common problem with 1084's. It is caused by hi voltage arcing 
    >on the underside of the circuit board in the monitor. Check out the article
    >in the recent (dated Oct of last year, but just delivered in Feb) Ami Transactor.

    It is important enough to look at it right away. I had the "pop"
    for about a year now. I was pretty sure that it had something to do with
    the high voltage, but never bothered to check it out. Well last week I
    started to loose my picture after the pop. I decided I had better take a
    look at things right away. After getting the case apart and powering up
    again, I got no picture at all. The most annoying part is that I had the
    Transactor issue on my desk when it went dead. I had not looked at it
    enough to see that a fix was right there.
	    If you are not into fix it yourself, or don't feel you know
    enough to try, find someone who does. If you wait too long like I did
    you will have a more severe problem. IE most likely a burned out High
    Voltage power supply.

    Steve

So, I don't mind fixing it myself, but I don't know when/where I'll be
able to get the transactor, or if I'll really be able to fix it myself.
Could somebody give me a little more detail about what is involved?  I
called the local computer store (the only one within about 30 miles) and
they said they'd seen the problem, but that I should take it to a
monitor/tv repair shop, that they don't fix it, and they thought transactor
was dead and gone.  

Does anybody know if I can mail order this issue of transactor from
somewhere (or can somebody xerox the article on the monitor problem and
forward it to me?)

thanks!

monty
kosma@alan.decnet.lockheed.com