This week I'm going to be picking up an Amstrad 464 plus monitor, it's a spares and repairs jobby basically. The only thing it does is buzzes and doesn't power a main unit. So I'm thinking of trying out the video cable from the monitor, but using a separate power supply from my TV kit. Thoughts? :D
Sorry it's Facebook but only way of uploading it at the moment, but after opening this one up. I think it's royally F******
Video
https://www.facebook.com/neil.green.904/videos/10154252728457108/
I'm getting what can only be described as lightning ;) going around and around the huge coil behind the screen and it's making this awful racket
Careful with it if it is arcing! :-X
Quote from: ||C|-|E|| on 02:54, 30 January 17
Careful with it if it is arcing! :-X
Shall I give it a kiss? :D
Quote from: Neil79 on 02:58, 27 January 17
This week I'm going to be picking up an Amstrad 464 plus monitor, it's a spares and repairs jobby basically. The only thing it does is buzzes and doesn't power a main unit. So I'm thinking of trying out the video cable from the monitor, but using a separate power supply from my TV kit. Thoughts? :D
It needs someone qualified to look at it. That buzzing could be electricity arcing.
Quote from: Neil79 on 15:00, 30 January 17
Shall I give it a kiss? :D
If you do, make it a good one, it'll be your last! :)
But seriously. If it's giving you a lightning show, then there's probably cracks in the insulation of the HT cable. Very difficult to fix unless you overtape it with a whole roll of PVC insulation tape.
Bryce.
But nice to look at :D . Yeah, give it a kiss! :laugh:
RIP
Sad story from my early electronics days (I think I was about 16 at the time). I was trying to fix a CRT with cracks in the HT cable. I decided to put a heatshrink tube over it and "melt" a new insulation over the cable. An electrically sound solution, however the cable was so rigid that it kept popping out of the Tube. An extremely dangerous event.
Bryce.
If it was making the clamp jump from the tube it must had been rigid indeed! it is usually pretty difficult to remove it.