At 01:30 PM 1/12/00 -0800, you wrote:

>If you really wanna know, there are no filaments in
>monitors. They use a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)
>powered by 30,000 volts to fire 3 Electron Guns
>on color models.
>Once a monitor has logged enough hours the CRT
>can crack from the heat and begin arcing and then
>there goes your flyback.

That's amazing technology, drawing sufficient electrons off a cold cathode
with only 30kv.  I've been retired for 15 years; that technology came along
after my departure.  Please elaborate on the technology and theory.

Robert

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