Amiga 1080 Monitor

[JimS]

Did you check the capacitors you changed? (Assuming they're not simply in the power supply.) Bad solder joints.. bridges... electrolytics in backwards? What does the RGB look like?

[JimS]

I'll leave this here in case anyone has a similar problem....

I've seen a number of 1084s develop bad solder joints on the flyback transformer. I think it's a combination of heat and the 15kHz vibrations from the transformer. Not so much on the 1080s. I don't know if they are more reliable, or if there are just fewer of them. :-)

[JimS]

The dangers of CRT's have been greatly exaggerated over the years. A microwave oven is far more dangerous, I met a guy who lost 2 or 3 fingers because he did the test for high voltage incorrectly (to say the least).

Some microwaves have toxic berylium in the magnetron, so they say.

[JimS]

Yeah, when I worked at the shop, we were warned not to break the ceramic pieces inside the magnetron if we tried to retrieve the (very strong) magnets. Very bad for the lungs, causes a condition I can't remember the name of, but similar to COPD.

I used to work for Burroughs (the mainframe computer company). One of the tape drives I worked on had a "warning Berylium" printed inside the capstan. I never knew why until I read that bit about the ceramics in microwaves. But the capstan wasn't ceramic, it was just a lightweight alloy, because it had to accelerate very fast. So unless you took a grinder to it, it was safe.

[JimS]

I made it a habit to check and retouch those connections whenever I had a monitor open.