Picking up an Amstrad 464 Plus Monitor - Thoughts?

[Neil79]

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?

[Neil79]

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******


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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

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Careful with it if it is arcing! 

[Neil79]

Careful with it if it is arcing! 

Shall I give it a kiss?

[chinnyhill10]

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?

It needs someone qualified to look at it. That buzzing could be electricity arcing.

[Bryce]

Shall I give it a kiss?

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.

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But nice to look at  . Yeah, give it a kiss! 

[Neil79]

RIP

[Bryce]

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.

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If it was making the clamp jump from the tube it must had been rigid indeed! it is usually pretty difficult to remove it.