[Gllug] OT: recommend place to buy 17" tft monitor

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 14 Dec, will wrote:
> 
> Nix wrote:
> >>>It arrived with probable delivery damage (the shadow mask was bent in
> >>>one corner) which totalled it in nine months. Iiyama's warranty people
> >>>replaced it instantly (in under a day), and they *didn't* smash up the
> >>>replacement in transit.
> >>
> >>   I have never heard of anything like that happening through mechanical
> >>damage, although I have seen an effect which looks like that but was really
> >>caused by a speaker or telephone parked nearby. It usually takes a few
> >>degauss cycles to cure.
> > 
> > Yes: that was the initial symptom; the lower-left corner shaded green
> > and red. A degauss fixed it.
> 
> About 18 months ago my work recieved about 4 iilama 19 inch monitors and 
> all had some degree of the symptoms mentioned.  Replacement monitors had 
> the same problem.  No cure was ever found.
> 
> Will.

   That sounds like a possible design fault, perhaps using inadequate
components, although it could be that there was a magnet near to the set-up
bench so that every one was mis-tweaked by the same amount. I used to have
to do alignments quite often, preceeded by a degauss using a large hand-held
external coil, and always following the order specified by the manufaturer.
We then bounced them round the country in their unsprung racks, so we also
carried another degaussing coil just in case of problems.
   One particular type of monitor was a two person lift, and used to die so
often that it was normal to have to pull the rack forwards and change the
monitor over the head of the operator while he continued to work non-stop.
We were supplied with a mini-hoist, but it was even more dangerous than just
a big heave in a very confined space. There was a known design fault, which
was impossible to cure in the available space, so the replacement parts were
just charged to the manufacturer.

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Chris Bell

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