OT(ish) - Tech: Test monitor voltages

[guddler]

[ukvac] OT(ish) - Tech: Test monitor voltages
Hi all,

My turn for a favour!!

I picked up a small monitor on Sunday that i want for a test rig. I'm
struggling to exactly ID it, but it looks like some kind of Microvitec -
perhaps an Amiga monitor.

Does anyone know what voltage it will be expecting?? Ie, do all monitors
take 130v AC on the chassis, or does it want 240v on the chassis, or am i
going to blow myself sky high?

I got a hantarex switched/isolated power supply in with the monitor so i was
just going to connect it to the monitor feed on that. On that subject, that
has two pins for 130v, and two for degaussing. I assume i use the two 130v
pins, any importance on polarity (the monitor is marked L N E, but the power
supply just has two unmarked pins!), and do i just ignore the two degaussing
pins??

Questions, questions! - thanks for any help,

Guddler.

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[guddler]

Re: [ukvac] OT(ish) - Tech: Test monitor voltages
Just to answer my own post ..... ;o)

Spoke to me boss about the monitor. His "best guess" was that as the board
was labelled up "L N E", it would be 240v. His advice was to connect up to
mains, put a low amp fuse in the plug, switch on and stand back !! (now i
know why i quit working for him!).

Well, this may not have been the most sensible advice in the world, but the
monitor only cost me a tenner, so i thought sod it and did just that.
Upshot, i now have a lovely (even if i do say so myself) test rig, fully
working, a fixed Mr Do's Castle and a working Arkanoid (techincally that was
me being stoopid, but hey!).

Only a dead 1942 (remember that thread ;o) , dead double dragon and corrupt
Crazy Kong, and i can get stuck into an interestingly beat up looking
Rampage setup.........

Back to the grind then,
Guddler.
PS: Just for the record then - Microvitec Amiga (?) monitors take 240v on
the board.

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