MONITOR II: Added external fuse-holder

[buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Among other items, I got four MONITOR II green monochrom monitors at a 
school auction last November.

One of the Monitor II's was dead-on-arrival; even the power-on lamp 
failed to light.

I opened the unit last night.   There is a one amp fuse, SOLDERED IN 
PLACE, easily accessible on the units' left side innards, near the power 
AC cable.

There is plenty of space in there, so I drilled a 1/2" round hole on the 
back-upper casing, and fitted a Jameco panel-mounted fuse-holder with 
one-amp fuse.   Ran 15" wires to the blown fuse's metal ends, soldered 
it, and covered all bare metal surfaces with shrink-tubing.

VOILA!!!  The Monitor II lit up, perfectly!  Next time the fuse blows, I 
will then just remove the cap from the external panel-mounted 
fuse-holder.  Thus, next time I wont have to open the casing.

The fuse is one amp and larger fuses must NOT be inserted.

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The IIC external power brick also has a soldered one-amp fuse.  When these
blow, I saw the brick open along its mid-line, and install a 
panel-mounted fuseholder so that the fuse can be reached from the 
outside.  Folks, its the only way to go .......     ;-O


Steve Buggie
		buggie@unm.edu