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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: C64 monitor on A1000?
Keywords: monitor, rgb,composite,chroma-luma-audio
Message-ID: <267@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 16:24:44 GMT
References: <7562@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Tempe, AZ
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In article <7562@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@tank.uchicago.edu (patrick  palmer) writes:
>
>Yesterday, I read the message from someone who warned about ignoring
>1084 snapping and popping lest one wait until the high voltage power
>supply blew.  About 2 messages later my 1084 (which snapped and popped
>for about a year) went black.

Just as another data point in this discussion, I have a 1080 monitor which
has snapped and popped since 1985, despite repeated cleanings and some
applications of corona dope.  I really do wish C-A would officially recognize
this problem as a design defect, come up with a fix, and issue a recall for
anyone with the problem to take the monitor to an authorized repair center
and get the silly thing fixed.  In my case, the problem only comes up for
a few months per year, on days when there are noticable static electricity
problems with other machines (when the monitor starts popping I know to
ground myself before inserting a cartridge drive in the Bell Tech machine
or the static discharge will cause the system to freeze up).

-Fred
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