Dust in your monitor, how much in lets say 3 years ?

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Should i open the case up and get the shovel ready ?

Think some compressed air will do.

Anyone here clean out their monitor how much dust should i expect ?

Monitor is playing up just like to rule out some stuff before getting
a new one.

Changed the PSu, no luck changed video cards no luck.

Going to change the ram positions see if that makes a diff.

Ho hum, i love pcs :)
 
Dust inside of a monitor is usually not a problem. If you are a heavy
smoker or use the monitor in a dust area, blowing it out wont hurt.
Dust may cause overheating if extreame and give high voltage an easier path
to ground if you have bad insutation. Blowing it out will help with
overheating but if it has arched across something your out of luck.

What kind of problem are you seeing ?

When you first turn the monitor on do you hear any high voltage static sound
or can you feel any static placing the back of you hand near the screen ?
If you have a newer monitor, unplug the video cable for this test as it
causes many to display a "no signal message" that will require the monitor
to fire up the high voltage.
 
FYI, if you decide to open up your monitor.....be very careful....it can hold a charge, even unplugged, that can kill
you....
TH
 
FYI, if you decide to open up your monitor.....be very careful....it can hold a charge, even unplugged, that can kill
you....
TH
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So remember, never, ever clean out your monitor while taking a bath
during a thunder storm.
And watch out for the cockroach carcasses.
 
Like i care.

But if i did care how long should i wait before i clean it out, unplug
it and wait how long ??

Thanks.
 
So remember, never, ever clean out your monitor while taking a bath
during a thunder storm.
And watch out for the cockroach carcasses.
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It's no joke you can be seriously or fatally injured.
Without even being in the tube.
 
But if i did care how long should i wait before i clean it out, unplug
it and wait how long ??
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Just wear a pair of rubber gloves and don't touch the monitor
electronics in the first place. Blowing it out is a good idea, especially
around the coil area.

rms
 
rms said:
Just wear a pair of rubber gloves and don't touch the monitor
electronics in the first p . Blowing it out is a good idea, especially
around the coil area.

rms
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If I were you I'd try to find a friendly monitor repair shop and bring your
monitor over there. You can do all the cleaning work, but see if they
wouldn't mind being there, just to make sure you don't touch anything that
will kill you .... cause as weird as it sounds, monitors can kill. The
insides of monitors contain quite a few high vol capacitors that can
maintain their charge for days if not weeks and the last thing you want is
accidentally touching one of those and going into cardiac arrest.

If you do take this upon yourself, I'd go with the rubber glove idea
(however, be aware that at high vol , even they might not be enough) and
touch absolutely nothing inside, which would probably require the use of
those compressed air cans to do the cleaning.

Harry
 
Like i care.

But if i did care how long should i wait before i clean it out, unplug
it and wait how long ??
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It ought to be fine now. Open the case and start poking around with a
screwdriver to test it.

My kidding and your apathy aside, it probably won't kill you but will
knock you flat on your ass. I was adjusting a CRT once and touched
the connection to the aquadawg (sp?) with the tip of the screwdriver
while my pinky finger was lightly resting on the shaft of the
screwdriver. It made a very loud "crack" and sent me flying backward
about five feet. It was several hours before I could move my elbow
and days before it didn't hurt anymore.

I doubt you'll find anyone who knows even a little about monitors and
CRT's that will suggest you should open the case and play with it.




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Just wear a pair of rubber gloves and don't touch the monitor
electronics in the first place.
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Most rubber gloves do not have 18,000-30,000V dielectric strength.
 
It ought to be fine now. Open the case and start poking around with a
screwdriver to test it.

My kidding and your apathy aside, it probably won't kill you but will
knock you flat on your ass. I was adjusting a CRT once and touched
the connection to the aquadawg (sp?) with the tip of the screwdriver
while my pinky finger was lightly resting on the shaft of the
screwdriver. It made a very loud "crack" and sent me flying backward
about five feet. It was several hours before I could move my elbow
and days before it didn't hurt anymore.

I doubt you'll find anyone who knows even a little about monitors and
CRT's that will suggest you should open the case and play with it.




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Yeah, really.
It shocks me how the kids don't care about safety, these days.

But as soon as they have a brush with death (like you did...you were
VERY lucky you didn't go into cardiac arrest), they suddenly become
the most careful people on the planet and mature VERY fast.

Maybe if one of you kids lost your best friend or girlfriend to a
monitor accident, you would take the advice of people in the know more
seriously.

Monitors are NOT motherboards; a motherboard will never kill you
unless you deliberately do something you shouldn't....but monitors,
televisions, etc, can, and _will_ kill you if you do not know exactly
what you're doing. all it takes is one slip, or one "um, is this the
right thing?" and it's "gg".

And leaving the thing unplugged for a day or a few days won't
guarantee you will make it....

I'll tell you what you do, to learn how to respect electricity....

Put a puddle of water on the bathroom floor, take off your shoes and
socks, stand in the puddle, wet your fingers, then touch the light
switch.

Maybe then you will grow up fast, or die, whatever fate has its way
with...
(whoever tries that deserves a darwin award.....)


<Gibs> When you kill 6 people in Unreal Tournament
it is "MonsterKill", In Quake3 it is "Excellent",
in Counter-Strike it is "Kicked by console"
 
Piss on the ****ing thing, that will clean it!!!!!
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What knocks you on your butt is the second anode to the CRT, which
pretty much uses the whole CRT as a capacitor with an 18+KV charge on
it.
 
Wait over night, but still dont touch anything inside. Use only dry
compressed air. The picture tube is the dangerous part. I can be charged up
to over 30,000 volts and may hold a charge for several days. Its a nasty
bite. The main power supply will also have caps that store around 170V,
this section will usually bleed down within a short time.

I've worked on monitors for a long time and never actually heard of anyone
who died but you dont want to be the first.

Dont rely on rubber gloves or someone elses work to keep you safe. The rule
is, use only one hand in a circuit that may be live and dont touch anything
until you personally have verified that it is dead.
 
Not going to touch ANYTING, just compressed air blow blow, and then
shut it :)
 
You ever heard of Charles Darwin and his theory about survival of the
fittest? Or the other side of the coin, the non-survival of the
dimmest? You are about to prove his theory correct if you happen to
contact the flyback circuit. The charge stays indefinately. Only a
trained tv or monitor repairman knows how to properly discharge it.
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No real trick to that--run a wire from a plastic-handled screwdriver to
the chassis and then slide the screwdriver under the insulated cap until
you hear a snap. If you want to you can put a 1 meg or so resistor in
the path so that you don't get a big arc.

And getting hold of it is more scary than dangerous--the real risk is
that you'll break the CRT when you react, and that _is_ dangerous--goes
off like a grenade.
 
You ever heard of Charles Darwin and his theory about survival of the
fittest? Or the other side of the coin, the non-survival of the dimmest?
You are about to prove his theory correct if you happen to contact the
flyback circuit. The charge stays indefinately. Only a trained tv or
monitor repairman knows how to properly discharge it.

Best solution is to leave the damn thing alone till it goes out and then buy
a new one. Don't let your fixation on possible dust build-up be your
undoing.

Dave
 
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