moonlit Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Ok, I'm not gonna be around as much for the next week or so, because I've had a little problem... Within 24 hours, 1. Main family TV (14 month old 32" widescreen) went boom, 2. My brother's 14" TV went boom, 3. My main 17" monitor went boom, 4. My 14" TV is about to go boom. Now, I haven't the faintest clue why this has happened, and if anyone has any ideas as to what could have happened then I'd like to hear them... all of the appliances were CRTs and nothing else has been affected at all. They were on different circuits in the house's electrics and afaik the power has been fine and they died staggered over 24 hours, so not all at the same time... The reason I won't be online as much though, is that until I get me a new monitor, I'm having to use a POS 14" Apple VGA monitor that can't handle anything above 640x480 @60Hz and it's making me sick already... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 big bang theory, your mum. people who talk to me in irc will understand my issues. its chavtastic OCD :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 All the usual things like lightning & bad wiring ruled out? Might be worth calling the power company and explaining the issue, see if anyone else on the street has the same issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Power surge? What kind of TVs and monitors are these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 All CRTs, TVs and the monitor... haven't called the power company yet, and not spoken to anyone else on the street yet but I'm thinking that might be advisable though... see I'd have thought that other appliances would've been affected too though... nothing else seems to have got hit... wiring's fine AFAIK though... Edit: and no storms as far as I'm aware VaKo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Arn't CRTs more suseptable to power surges? I'm not sure they might be, becasue there are very high volteges inside CRT TVs, and the CRTs them selfs will only work with in a certian tollorance of the requierd voltage, any high and bang... I seem to think... may be i made this all up, but it at least make sence to a degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 Heh it does have some logic to it ;) I'll see what Google has to say on it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 It was faeries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Don't you mean gremilins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Gremlins aren't real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Gremlins aren't real. thats what you think. look behind you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Gremlins aren't real. thats what you think. look behind you Don't do that!....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Gremlins aren't real. thats what you think. look behind you Don't do that!....... look in your closet ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 and under the bed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Well, what ever happens, all the insurance company needs to know is that your dual 30" Apple Cinema screens no longer work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Well, what ever happens, all the insurance company needs to know is that your dual 30" Apple Cinema screens no longer work... dual? i thought moon said he had quad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 That was years back melodic, I've had 6 widescreens since 2004! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 That was years back melodic, I've had 6 widescreens since 2004! ;) Did you throw one out of a top floor window just to see it smash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 Err... no, that one got 'stolen'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 So you didn't hurl it out the window and shout "Punch it thewi, punch it thewi" untill it hit the floor and then say "*some thing* punchingly good"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 Shh, the insurance company might be listening... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Can insurance companies requisition your internet acticity logs (if your ISps have them) from your ISP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 *smash, bang, crash...* What? I never had the internet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickarse Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 What could do it is a large surge from a home radio station. I have friends who live's near one of these. Some spanish station yelling crap finds it's way into every speaker in his house and will mess with the TV. IF they are pushing that much power it's DANGEROUS! That could be it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 30, 2006 Author Share Posted May 30, 2006 Not so sure about that, but every now and then (often in very warm weather) I get a Spanish (I think? maybe French, I'm not sure it's not clear enough) TV station overlaying several TV channels... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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