Slightly OT? 1701 Monitor question

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:30 am

Mike wrote:The voltages used in a CRT are in excess of 25 kV, and can cause an arc - and electric shock - without you even touching any metallic parts!

YIKES! I was lucky then! Thanks for the info... !

BBQedIguana · Post by **BBQedIguana** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:31 pm

Success!!! I have a really big iron magnet that I had tried to clean up my screen with, but just made it worse. I found a post on the Interwebs that talked about how CRTs work a bit, and what the degausser is doing to the mat behind the glass. Turns out if I use the poles of my magnet, I can have a lot more control over the clearing of the false colours. I found one pole worked for the top half of the screen, and the other pole worked on the bottom half.

I spent about 10 minutes today waving the magnet around in front of my 1702 and by golly I got it! Now it's perfect - nice and crisp and smooth proper colour across the whole screen. WHEW!

Take care!

Rick in Barrie

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:22 pm

Hurrah! Now you have another profession in degaussing CRTs.

Well, those that are still around...

Blockparty 2010 on April 16-18,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 24-25 CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum
and click on ComVEX

dabone · Post by **dabone** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:55 am

I've still got a manual degaussing coil from when I was heavy into collecting arcade games. Can't seem to find any for sale except a 36" monster one over at happs!.

Works much easier that using a fixed magnet, takes about 5 to 10 seconds to degauss a monitor.

Later,
dabone