Hello! My girlfriend and I tried to set up her Commodore 64 today. Tried the living room TV and couldn't get a signal, so... we hooked up the CRT monitor, and the moment that she plugged the RCA video connection into the monitor, with a switched off C64 mind you, the lights dimmed and magic smoke was released.
Still don't know what happened.
Good news is the monitor will still power on, but doesn't take video inputs. I'm trying to get the board out to see where the magic smoke came from (video input is all the way at the front of the board).
I need someone to tell me the proper way to discharge this thing, and how the heck I should go about disassembly. The screen still feels charged just moving my hand near it, and won't clear heatsinks on the board if I try to remove it. While the board has screws that I can't reach because of the screen. Gotta believe someone else has worked on one of these before.
Also, if anyone knows how to add an RGB input to this, that would just make her day. Although honestly the composite looks amazing with this hooked to a 1CHIP SNES.
Gallery here of the disassembly so far, with identifying markings: https://imgur.com/a/1oCuu
EDIT: Googling suggests this is a Toshiba screen with a Sanyo FCC ID?
Still don't know what happened.
Good news is the monitor will still power on, but doesn't take video inputs. I'm trying to get the board out to see where the magic smoke came from (video input is all the way at the front of the board).
I need someone to tell me the proper way to discharge this thing, and how the heck I should go about disassembly. The screen still feels charged just moving my hand near it, and won't clear heatsinks on the board if I try to remove it. While the board has screws that I can't reach because of the screen. Gotta believe someone else has worked on one of these before.
Also, if anyone knows how to add an RGB input to this, that would just make her day. Although honestly the composite looks amazing with this hooked to a 1CHIP SNES.
Gallery here of the disassembly so far, with identifying markings: https://imgur.com/a/1oCuu
EDIT: Googling suggests this is a Toshiba screen with a Sanyo FCC ID?
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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