-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 November 2003 21:37, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The raw circuitry in the monitor contains a number of coils to make > magnetic fields and transformers and such. When you put a fixed voltage This seems quite credible, thanks for your explanation. > If this seems cruel and a poor design, consider that your TV set is made > to work just this way, and you can still make the black smoke come out of With all the silicon in a modern TV this is not literally true for recent TVs: for example mine is a 100Hz job where the signals that drive the display are logically and temporally divorced from the incoming video data: good luck blowing that up with a Modeline Of Death. Hopefully it would no longer be true for 50Hz modern sets as a safety feature too. > Old monitors in a multisync age probably should be discarded. A friend > of mine lost his house due to a monitor catching fire. Was it due to HSYNC troubles though? I don't suppose he cared either way. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sAggjKeDCxMJCTIRAh3lAJ97sJKlIHg5iAsjPBBO4fSZVgzmDQCfTjyb BVBbJ+TuvlBSuHy/rbZGagQ= =uR7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
