[rescue] Rescued iMacs looking for input on repair

[Andrew Weiss]

On May 5, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> I just found this about the flyback issue:
> http://www.macopz.com/columns/imacrepair/disassembly.html
>
> An rather scary instruction on how to replace the flyback transformer.
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> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>

Yeah... if you don't properly discharge the CRT (either with a  
screwdriver and cable or a CRT discharge tool) you can die.  25kV is  
not nice going through your body.  They're supposed to have bleeder  
resistors but those don't always work.

Andrew

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