Mythbusters

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2/2/2006 at 7:09 PM Richard wrote:

>> All you really had to do to fry the MDA on a PC was to program the
>> horizontal frequency a few KHz too high.
>
>I thought what killed it was setting the horizontal frequency to zero.

Nah, think about it.  That would be equivalent to unplugging the thing,
which doesn't hurt at all.  The failure with the higher-than-allowed
frequency is almost always a short in the HV secondary.

Cheers,
Chuck