Dismantling a Monitor

A fan?! I dont know how many TV's/CRT's i've torn apart that dont have a fan. In fact, none that i've torn apart have ever had a fan. Pretty cool! That degaussing cable is copper, to anyone who didnt know. Just unwind the black tape and BAM, their ya go. I believe that sometimes it can be aluminum also...you can usually tell by the weight.

Also, the big black transformer surrounded by the alum heatsink, is their anything in that? I've never torn that apart. Always all the other copper windings, and smaller transformers.

Good pic tutorial!

Hey, yeah, sorry i didnt see that, try being nicer about correcting folks.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Hoss, read my lips, that was a computer power supply the fan is in,,,
The black transformer has copper in it but I think it's epoxy baked so we turn them in with other small transformers and small motors. The black tape on the degaussing cable is real easy to slice thru with a razor knife, I can do 5 of them an hour while watching tv.

Hoss, wasn't being mean, I just enlarged it in case anyone else mistook the last picture, sorry. Your right, I've never seen a fan in a tv or monitor. I took the last pic the same time as the other dismantling so I just thought I'd add it also, for the newbee's, like I said.

Originally Posted by TheHoss

. I believe that sometimes it can be aluminum also...you can usually tell by the weight.

I don't think you'd be able to tell by the weight as much as you could tell by the color. Just snip it somewhere to break the "circle" and look at the fresh cut ends... it will be either copper(redish) color or aluminum(silver) color.

Interesting, I've always thrown the ferrite in the trash. It's mostly ceramic right? Seems to me to be about the same a sticking a brick in with every load as it's not really recycleable is it?

It sticks to a magnet and is also the material that magnets for your car stereo is made out of, I've always heard that ferrite is recyclable. No I'm not padding my weight bucket.

it has a powdered metal of some sort in it.

Thanks to Wiki for this;

A ferrite is a type of ceramic compound composed of iron oxide (Fe2O3) combined chemically with one or more additional metallic elements.[1] They are ferromagnetic, meaning they can be magnetized or attracted to a magnet, and are electrically nonconductive

And here is an example of some aluminum wire that came out of some degaussing cables, you can tell by weight after you've done quite a few. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for the colors.

Very nicely laid out. This is the kind of info that anyone wandering the internet search engines hopes to find, thanks for sharing......
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But where are the nekkid ladies????
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I figured it was easier to post the pic's than answer the same questions 10 times. Hope I'm right,,,

yeah yeah.....that was good , but where are the nekkid ladies??
Anyone guess that the full moon amps me up a little?
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Dang, I always wondered what those big heavy black things were int he third piture top right corner - I didnt know those were transformers and couldn't find ANY info on the google search for those either was probably doing it wrong. thanks for the info!

When you look at a circuit board, the hi voltage orange/red wire comes from those black transformers and goes to the picture tube(suction cup). Like I said earlier I think their epoxy wrapped or baked but there is copper wrapped inside, and that is what make some of the hi voltage for the tube. I've never tried to beat one apart, we just turn them in with other xformers. Looking at the third picture you can see where I cut the red wire off the xformer after discharging.

Someone on here took one apart and for the time invested in getting it apart it just wasn't worth it.

Nice post, I am just harvesting my first monitor and had some questions, you answered them all. By the way, I just took a razor knife down the middle of the degaussing cable and peeled the tape right off, no real problem.

Still the question though, what to do with the CRT when your done with it.