kosma%stc-sun@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) (03/26/90)
From: Darren New <new@udel.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 20:44:05 GMT I've looked at the directions in the summary of the Transactor article posted previously. I've opened my monitor and found it to be mostly dust-free. The article mentions a heat-sink under the metal plate on the bottom of the "motherboard" PC board. This plate is soldered to wires sticking thru the plate in several places in my monitor. Do I have the wrong plate, or do I need to unsolder it to remove it? There is also a plate on the "top" of the board which appears to be held down by twist-tabs but access to this is block by the tube and lots-o-little-wires. I would rather not take all this apart only to find I did The Wrong Thing, so any advice here would be appriciated. THANKS IN ADVANCE! -- Darren get an ohmmeter and find the big l-shaped hunk of metal which is NOT shorted to ground. This is the heat sink you want. It's not under a metal plate or anything (on mine at least), it's on the back side of the monitor, and it should have a couple of labels stuck onto it. Mine was bolted onto some sort of a big transistor or something. I just connected a wire from that heat sink to ground and the snapping stopped completely. hope that helps! monty