First post, by Socket3
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Hi guys. I bought a Dell 1130 CRT monitor today, and brought it home to set up with one of my retro PCs. The CRT is in great shape, bright, perfect geometry and great picture.... but.... there's an occasional "click" accompanied by the picture shrinking for half a second then coming back.
The monitor's case is pretty beat up... deep scratches all over, especially on the front bezel. The metallic dell logo is also scratched and dented. It's like the monitor was stored face down for a long time, and banged around. The tube is thankfully unscratched, and all the buttons work as intended.
I've been searching for a couple of 21" CRTs for a while now, but everything I've come across had really bad wear - as in they were dim and or the geometry was off. This one is has perfect picture and brightness.
The clicking and picture shrink issue really worry me. What could be wrong with it? It doesn't happen often and it's irregular, it can go for an hour and not "click" or it can do it twice in 10 minutes... I know close to nothing about how to fix a CRT, so I'm hoping one of you guys can point me in the right direction - could it be a bad capacitor? Bad electrical connection? Where should I start looking?
I'm worried if I keep using it like this something might generate magic smoke or it will just stop working, and I don't have to tell you guys how rare (and in cases expensive) a good 21" CRT can be.