VT101 screen adjustment

Adrian Graham witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Mon May 9 17:52:52 CDT 2016


On 09/05/2016 22:15, "Swift Griggs" <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 May 2016, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> Thanks for that, I now know it's vertical deflection which is adjusted
>> by A102 on the monitor board so I'm just about to give it a tweak once I
>> find my plastic trimmers and a screwdriver small enough to get the top
>> off, it's the only VT1xx I have with all fasteners intact.
> 
> No problem, I've often noticed a couple of things you should know:
> 
> 1. Many times the pots are plastic. Be careful when you first "break" them
> loose, I've ruined a few in Trinitrons which were stuck so hard the thing
> kind of fell apart when twisting it.

Yes indeed. Fortunately this one wielded under my trimmer and all is
properly aligned now. All I need to do now is troubleshoot the keyboard
circuit which I hope is the same as the VT102...
 
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