Re: Safely swap monitors?


<maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Choreboy <choreboyREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The computer output was easier for a probe, being holes. None of the 15
> > holes carried any signal I saw. Two sat at 5V. The rest were at
> > ground. With a DMM, one of the signal holes (horizontal sync, I think)
> > showed zero ohms, but that could be normal.
>
> That's not normal, there should be at least 75 ohms to ground.
>


Which may be what 75 ohms looks like depending on the range the meter is set
on. I suspect there's visible damage inside the monitor, I'd open it up and
look at the board where the cable plugs in. Lightning is interesting stuff,
we don't get much of it out here though.


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