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Re: Opening AppleColor RGB, need safety tips!
Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: Before I go on, is the following normal?
: - With the screen totally black (ie, a screen saver), and
: the brightness knob set just slightly above the center
: position, is it normal is see a distinct BLUE color?
: If I'm not mistaken, I should see black, or at the
: very least a light or dark grey, but I'm not.
[snip]
I cured all kinds of problems with my monitor such as wrong colors and having
to fiddle with brightness/contrast constantly by adjusting the focus pot inside
the monitor. I'd try that then worry about other stuff.
: Now, unless someone else out there has a monitor like this,
: I'm going to assume there's something wrong. I suspect the Red voltage
: gun has weakened with age, and playing with the R-Drive and B-Drive pots
: on the CRT circuit board might fix this. However, before I go poking
: inside my monitor to adjust things, I'd like to hear some safety advice.
: If I get an _all plastic_ tool (like a color TV adjustment tool from
: Radio Shack) will this protect me from getting zapped when turning the
: pots? Is keeping one hand behind my back all I need do to be protected
: (and of course avoid touching anything that carries high voltage)? I'd
: have to adjust the tint with the back opened and the monitor's power
: _on_, so I'm a little nervous about this. It may seem I'm being somwhat
: paranoid here, but I hear there's enough high voltage to *kill* you
: in there! :|
I used a metal screwdriver last time, the knobs are plastic. You could go low
budget/low tech and use the pointy pocket clip thing of a Bic pen cap, like I
used to adjust voltage and some other knobs inside my Mac 128 recently.
I wasn't about to stick something metal in the metal screws on it.
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