Cited on HN 3 times, 2019–2026, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Linked whenever someone reports a monitor blacking out from static electricity, as prior art on the same problem.
Dave Jones of EEVblog investigates why a 4K BenQ monitor switches itself off, tracing it to static discharge from an office chair. He uses an oscilloscope to examine the static impulses.
I posted this to reddit but I'm more likely to get a reasonable discussion on here. [this video] Dave covers "static" turning off a monitor in this video. Could it be this?
There is an old EEVblog[1] video on the topic. Mine doesn't do it from chairs, but it regularly blacks out if I turn on the nearby LED strip. [1] [this video]
Older EEVblog video on monitors blacking out from static
It looks like the youtube embed is broken. It is supposed to link to a EEV blog video. It is wild how many times someone brings me broken equipment and it turns out EEV blog has already investigated the same issue for the same device. [this video]
EEVblog investigation of a monitor blacking out from static
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