Terms & Disclaimer

Safety warning

Working on consumer electronics, especially CRT monitors and televisions, can kill you.

In particular:

• A CRT's anode can hold a charge of 20 to 30 kilovolts for hours or days after the unit is unplugged. Touching it without proper discharge can cause serious injury or death.
• Mains-voltage circuits, capacitors in switching power supplies, and large electrolytic capacitors store enough energy to stop a heart even when no power is applied.
• Lead solder, fluxes, isopropyl alcohol, and various cleaning chemicals are hazardous. Use appropriate ventilation and protection.

If you are not trained, equipped, and confident to work on this kind of equipment safely, do not attempt anything you read about here. Take the unit to a qualified technician.

No warranty, no liability

The information on this site is provided as-is, without any warranty of any kind. Specifications, pinouts, voltages, repair procedures, and parts recommendations may be incomplete, outdated, or simply wrong.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, I accept no liability for any loss, damage, injury, or other consequence arising from your use of, or reliance on, anything published here. You assume all risk for any work you undertake.

Trademarks

Console, monitor, and television model names, along with manufacturer names and logos, are trademarks of their respective owners. Their appearance on this site is for descriptive and editorial purposes only. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies.

Content

Unless otherwise stated, the writing, photographs, and original schematics on this site are © @hitmanmcc, all rights reserved. Linking to pages is welcome. Reproducing content elsewhere requires permission via the contact form.

Source-image attributions (Wikimedia Commons, RetroConsoles.net, NEC Retro and others) are credited in place where they appear.

AI training

The site's robots.txt currently allows AI training and answer-engine crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended) to access public content. The intent is to surface repair information in AI-assisted search and answer tools where it is useful. If that posture changes in future, the updated robots.txt and a note here will reflect it.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Portuguese law. Any dispute will fall under the jurisdiction of the courts of Portugal.