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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Darkage on February 25, 2004, 05:10:02 pm

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Darkage on February 25, 2004, 05:10:02 pm

When i came home today i had a sudden urge to fine tune my monitor. It's about 7 years old and stuff like convergens, focus, brightness had been kinda fubard so left me with a crapy monitor, and since i don't have the cash to buy a new one atm i thought why not fine tune it. And now it looks views like it just rolled out of the factory:D


Some images I took:


(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/monitor.jpg)

Anode Cap.

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/monitor2.jpg)

Image of the Yokes, VideoBoard and the HV unit.

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/monitor3.jpg)

Close up of the Yokes. And 6 pole magnets for collor purity.

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Sandwich on February 25, 2004, 05:24:46 pm

Urk. Better you than me, that's all I can say. I wouldn't have a clue as to where to start. :eek2:

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Darkage on February 25, 2004, 05:42:55 pm

Hehe true...

But since i repair monitors (mainly sun microsystem monitors) i can easly tune my monitor to my liking.

We get allot of older monitors and those are like 4 times more complicated to tune and repair then this one. So i got away with easy tuning:)


Some test paterns i used.

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/darkage/test.jpg)

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Darkage on February 26, 2004, 12:56:34 am

Not much repley's:D


But i kinda expected that:D

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Stryke 9 on February 26, 2004, 01:29:53 am

Well, unless you want a response along the lines of "Buh?", that's probably how it's gonna stay. I wasn't even aware there was a hardware route to recalibrating monitors.

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Nico on February 26, 2004, 01:54:09 am

Well, I'd like to see that background pic :p

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: kasperl on February 26, 2004, 05:40:13 am

is there any easy way to give a HowTo for this, it might come in handy.

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Lightspeed on February 26, 2004, 10:37:39 am

Just make sure you can see the difference between 0% and 5% on the grey brightness scale, then everything's right brightness-wise. :)

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Darkage on February 26, 2004, 11:09:07 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
is there any easy way to give a HowTo for this, it might come in handy.

Wel not realy. You need to be damn carefull though with calibrating it hardware wise.

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Originally posted by Lightspeed
Just make sure you can see the difference between 0% and 5% on the grey brightness scale, then everything's right brightness-wise. :)

I know that:)

Since i do it almost everyday i got prety much used to it on how to adjust monitors. It aint always fun though.

Or was this directed to kasperl?

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Thorn on February 26, 2004, 11:15:14 am

And you have to be damn careful not to electrocute yourself even if its unplugged. Those things can hold quite a bit of charge for a long time.

Title: Tuned my monitor.
Post by: Darkage on February 26, 2004, 11:23:42 am

True.....but if you don't go under the Anode Cap then there is not much to worry about. And removing it is also save but i wouldn't recommend it at home. And i didn't ave a reason to remove it.

You can discharge it prety easly and savely with a long screw driver and a second screw driver to put underneat it.