On Sunday 28 September 2008 18:19, Tony Duell wrote:
On Sunday
28 September 2008 13:20, Tony Duell wrote:
For those wondering what the current state of
this monitor is, I've
cleaned up all the case parts and put it back together. It still works
(so I didn't do any damage taking it apart), although there are still
red fringes to the right of (say) white objects.
If it were a convergence problem you'd see fringes of the opposite color
Exactly.I've not looked carefully enough to see this (I think a magnifier
is needed), but I don't think the complementary colour fringes are there,
which implies to me that it's an amplifier problem.
If you don't see it without a magnifier you don't have a convergence
problem. :-)
The red fringing is noticeable without a magnifier. Black-on-white text
isparticularly bad -- a 'l' would almost appear as red on white. But I
don;t nitce any cyan fringing in such text.
I would not normally bother to correct a problem that was only visible
with a magnifier, but it's useful to use one to attempt to identify what
the problem really is.
[...]
And the adjustments you talk about are not really all
that critical either.
I've done them, bunches of times, as a matter of normal service routine,
back when I was working on that sort of stuff.
Nrmally I'd agree with you (adter all 'colour temperature' was a user
adjustment on a lot of PC monitors). It becomes critical if you need
accurate colour reproduction (e.g. for TV studio work).
But what worries me is a comment in the HP service manual. It basically
warns you not to twiddle these adjustments (the same sort of message is
printed on the metal cover over the monitor chassis). And that
misadjustment can cause various problems :
Visible flyback lines
Missing colours
Incorrect colours (compared to another 9836C)
Significantly decreased reliability
Now, the first 2 are very ovbious, and I'll not have problems with that.
The third doesn't bother me at all, since I only have one HP9836C. But
the last does worry me.. Particularly if the part that fails is the
flyback transformer. The CRT seems to be a standard one (I can find no
data on it, but some CRT testers/boosters list it as one of the CRTs they
can handle). I would have a chance of finding a replacement. The
transistors on the video board are all standard, so I could find
replacements. But HP never supported component-level repair on these
machines, and the flyback transformer was only avaialbe as the complete
deflection PCB. And that's long unobtainable. I don't if any other HP
monitor used the same transformer -- the horizontal scan rate is unusual
-- about 25kHz -- but other HPs used the same sort of rates.
-tony