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Skriven 2005-01-26 06:30:10 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
    Kommentar till text 194 av Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615.0)
Ärende: Monitors nee-But it's ec
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01-24-05  20:07, Roy J. Tellason told James Bradley about Monitors nee-But it's
ec

 Well, how do, Roy?
 
 JB> The latest on the bench was a NEC. Seemed easy enough to get into,
 JB> but the vert. retrace remained misplaced. Most of the tweaking on
 JB> the colour balance didn't seem to take hold either. I'm starting to
 JB> think some of those controls need to have a service switch set
 JB> before they come online.

 RJT> That may be the case.  There's no real consistency from one to the
 RJT> next.  I  guess I'm going to get to find out about one of mine,  that 
 RJT> died while I was using it the other night -- a Princeton 
 RJT> Graphics...

Designed obsolescence tends to keep one from fixin' the darned things!
 RJT> I got as far as pulling the back off.  Found a fuse,  which is still
 RJT> good. 
 <...>

The component downstream tends to protect the fuse. (Or so the tagline goes.)
You'll find it's the fifty dollar part.
 JB> I bought a NTSC generator at auction, but have yet to plug an AC
 JB> cable into it. Of course it doesn't do much for a 'puter monitor
 JB> with its composite output.

 RJT> What's it supposed to put out?  I know of one guy who was in the tv
 RJT> repair  business who bought himself a rather expensive generator to 
 RJT> work on monitors with.  I don't recall much about it,  that 
 RJT> was quite some time ago.
 
...I'm sure this is only NTSC, but maybe PAL too, but I doubt it. I can only
see the South side, as it's in a rack that resides bass-ackwards until I can
get off my carcass to flip it around. It's a Heathkit if memory serves. Nothing
special, but it has quite a selection of knobs on the front. BNC connector on
the back, with a Blanking, and Trace Rev. switches.
 JB> Good thinking with the Linux box, no doubt! You'd want a VESA
 JB> capable card for its versatility, no?

 RJT> Beats me.  Different cards have different capabilities,  
 RJT> and it's been a while since I dug into that,  around the 
 RJT> time I was trying to get X working on one box here,  a few 
 RJT> years back.  They've gotten much better at the automated 
 RJT> side of setup since then,  and the setup I'm using now I 
 RJT> didn't have to fiddle with much. 
 
I had to do quite a bit of guessing about the H-V-retrace myself. Heck, I doubt
the info is still on the web for some of the old pieces I have blowing through
the place.
 JB> As you can imagine, stressing the retraces are not a consideration
 JB> for these old piles. The shop could use some excitement/light
 JB> shows. <G>

 RJT> Heh.

There's nothing like the smell of ozone in the morning. Smells like... Teen
Spirit! <-;


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