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Yes; trying to drive a refresh rate higher than what’s rated can do it-I think it had something to do with the flyback transformer? Some (later) crts had guards
by linksnapzz 2y ago
Yes; trying to drive a refresh rate higher than what’s rated can do it-I think it had something to do with the flyback transformer? Some (later) crts had guards against this, and ddc more ore less prevented it.
- drivers99 2y agoI was thinking too low of a frequency. Probably high or low can cause problems. I searched and found this: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-the-wrong-sync-frequency-really-destroy-a-crt-monitor https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-... "At the too low horizontal frequency, the period the switch is open becomes too long, that causes the following" [various bad things explained]