Yeah, it was a pisser. I looked into buying a new adapter. Apple doesn't make them any more, and used ones go for around $100 on ebay. My cinema display can't quite reach optimum brightness for my working conditions any more. It's where I park my photoshop menus and, when I'm writing, extra source docs, so it's shortcomings aren't critical, but it's not going to get better. It's at least ten years old. So instead of a new adapter, I bought an inexpensive monitor to serve as the second screen (The iMac 27 panel is my main working screen, and it's very good.) I ordered an NEC EA232WMI-BK MultiSync 23" IPS panel from Comp USA. PCMag gave it a good review and the price was only $264.99. Paul On Jul 12, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> Sounds like your monitor wasn't properly house-trained. > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> While I was working this afternoon, the power failed briefly. >> (Unfortunately, the blackout came while I was interviewing someone over the >> phone and typing notes.) But my iMac restarted without a problem and no >> apparent damage. However, my second monitor, an early Apple Cinema Display, >> hooked up with the Apple converter, did not come back on line. When I >> examined the converter, there was a puddle of fluid under it. I'm guessing >> there's a liquid cooled transformer in there that blew its top. I know that >> back in the day, transformer oil was dangerous stuff. I doubt that's true >> any more. I guess I'll take it to the genius bar and see if they'll replace >> it. I don't know if I still have a receipt, and it's probably three or four >> years old, but I would think it shouldn't fail like that. Of course, the >> geniuses probably won't agree. >> Paul >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
