just blew up my 17" monitor

[jdow]

From: "Andy Green" <fedora at warmcat.com>
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> On Monday 10 November 2003 08:24, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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> > Would you be willing to subject your CRT to an experimental video
> > driver?  I can whip up a video driver guaranteed to let the smoke
> > out of your monitor for proof of concept,
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> Thanks for the offer :-)  but explaining the mechanism would be a lot more
> useful... what exactly gets hot and why?  Generally if things are asked to
> operate outside their bandwidth the signal attenuates towards nothing.  It
> would be a badly designed circuit that reacted to this by getting hot and
> letting out the magic smoke.

Horizontal and vertical oscillators are what blow. If they are run outside
their design range their heat dissipation gets very high. High heat
dissipation means hot parts. Hot parts die out much faster than cool parts.
With semiconductors this is especially true. I've also found that operating
on the edges of the manufacturer's supposedly safe range is another way to
shorten the life span of a monitor. It gets hotter. That means shorter life
span. Every 10 degrees Celsius makes a huge exponential difference.

{^_^}