Any idea if ESD can damage the monitor over time?
Certainly.
Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
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Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those aren't exactly common here, since municipal water is high quality and everyone drinks it as is. It is not like some parts of the world where the tap water is full of chlorine and barely drinkable (I ran into that when I went to Athens). And if you have your own well, you generally do a cheaper filter targeted at whatever impurity you have (such as an iron filter), rather than a reverse osmosis filter. With reve…
Man. It seems like every avenue of humidification is paved with difficulty. Ultrasonic humidifiers (and others) that spritz water droplets out? They need fed expensive water, or they spread particulates everywhere. Health aspects aside, it's nice living in a house that isn't bathed in something that looks like chalk dust. Evaporative methods? They're similar in their lust for pure water, and the particles tend to con…
When I last looked, the evaporative methods were better than others. You don't need distilled water for it, tap will work. They do need cleaning and frequent disinfecting though due to the pad constantly sitting in the water. The prices of replacement pads are a bit expensive but it was cheaper than constantly buying distilled water.
There are a few brands out there but the Philips ones seemed better than the others and the prices were not as insane. I just disliked their marketing and buzzword filled content but otherwise they seem OK. Oh and you should know a lot of their stuff now are internet connected(disabling it will make you lose some functions but otherwise the device still works) and have touch buttons and screens etc. It's unfortunate but this seems to be where every device is heading.
I do agree with you that this seems overly complex. You can pretty much do it yourself if you'd like to take on a project. A fan and a constantly wet rag has the same function but is not as compact.
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#63Sounds like another issue that would be much less of an issue if you just don't wear shoes in your house... Offices are another issue of course
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outlet testers only go so far. They can produce false assurance. One of the things that people (well, idiots -- but idiots are also people) discover when replacing an old 2-prong outlet with a new 3-prong outlet from the big box store is that they've only got 2 wires to work with. There is no ground conductor is present. So they do the wrong thing the wrong way, and connect the ground screw on the new outlet to the n…
Right. I've seen unconnected grounds. And I still have a 220V dryer grounded via the neutral. Hasn't been code for new installations since 1996, but is grandfathered. And yes, I know about GFCIs with no ground and the warning. Had one of those once. Still, an outlet tester will find the common case. I suspect that the situation here is that everything is on 2-wire external power supplies and there is no path to groun…
And last I knew you ALSO can put in a GFCI circuit breaker (instead of outlet), swap in normal three prong outlets with ground not connected and use those stickers on the outlets.
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man. It seems like every avenue of humidification is paved with difficulty. Ultrasonic humidifiers (and others) that spritz water droplets out? They need fed expensive water, or they spread particulates everywhere. Health aspects aside, it's nice living in a house that isn't bathed in something that looks like chalk dust. Evaporative methods? They're similar in their lust for pure water, and the particles tend to con…
When I last looked, the evaporative methods were better than others. You don't need distilled water for it, tap will work. They do need cleaning and frequent disinfecting though due to the pad constantly sitting in the water. The prices of replacement pads are a bit expensive but it was cheaper than constantly buying distilled water. There are a few brands out there but the Philips ones seemed better than the others…
Thanks. I'll check out Philips. I wonder if third-party pads exist.
I prefer dumb, but I don't mind if it's smart. Especially if I can integrate the smarts into my Home Assistant rig.
I built a humidifier once. I just used the Instant Pot that was already on the countertop. I filled it with water, set it to "Keep warm", and it slowly evaporated the water and left minerals behind.
This worked fine (it was safe, if inefficient).
But monitoring the consumption of water and the improvement in humidity showed that to actually raise the humidity to a comfortable point would and do so throughout the house would use a lot of water.
And I want to do more with my time than fill humidifiers back up. :)
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#66I have a 3 monitor setup. The one on HDMI over USB-C blinks off half of the time when I sit down, and my little Noctua desk fan will twitch.
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#67Last night I had a lightning strike nearby and one of two displays blanked for a second. It's behind a UPS and a good surge protector. Likely some EMI/RFI getting into the power and/or display cable of the monitor itself, toppling digital circuits in the panel and waking up the watch dog. The same display has also blanked in the infrequent case where I've discharged static on the mouse: the cables are all parallel, s…
> It's behind a UPS and a good surge protector.
To be clear, neither of these things are intended to address EMI/RFI. Most consumer-grade UPSes directly pass the AC power through when not on battery, so any noise on the lines will also pass through pretty much untouched.
Surge suppressors are just MOVs (metal oxide varistors) and a circuit breaker. If the line voltage rises too high, the MOVs try to shunt the voltage. But if the EMI's peak voltage is below the MOV's trigger threshold, it will do nothing and the EMI will pass straight through.
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#68This happened to me just now (after seeing it a couple times on here today) and ~never? noticing this before...
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#69My Mac Mini M2 sometimes blinks in November months. I've replaced my display cable recently with an HDMI to DVI cable with ferrite cores from monoprice, I'll see if it makes a difference this November.
Re: Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)
#70Last night I had a lightning strike nearby and one of two displays blanked for a second. It's behind a UPS and a good surge protector. Likely some EMI/RFI getting into the power and/or display cable of the monitor itself, toppling digital circuits in the panel and waking up the watch dog. The same display has also blanked in the infrequent case where I've discharged static on the mouse: the cables are all parallel, s…
My understanding is it's the piston and gas, undergoing rapid decompressor.
That's what I understood from the article as well, but commenters below say they fixed it with a cotton cushion. That rules the piston out.