RE: Pictures of your Star Wars

If the lines on your screen go from looking like this:
---------------------- to looking like
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ it is most likely the pots for the
X and Y size adjustments on the deflection board.. Most likely if you
turn them a bit, you will see the vectors get crisp and then go back the
way they were. If they are really bad, it may not help at all. Replace
them and you should be good to go.
 
JB
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Rosenzweig [mailto:joel.rosenzweig@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:53 PM
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Subject: VECTOR: Pictures of your Star Wars
 
I'm looking for a few people to email me a photo or two of your Star
Wars video display in action. I'd like to get a frame of reference to
determine just how distorted my own system has become so I can see what
I'm working towards as I repair mine. Certainly, on the emulators, all
of the vectors are nice and crisp, and bright, but my actual machine has
never quite looked as good. I've noticed the text is looking less and
less straight these days, and the cursor looks like it's made of a bunch
of squiggly lines. If I had a few real life examples, I'd have a better
idea of what a realistic target to shoot for might be. If you say that
your vectors are as crisp and straight as the lines on an emulator,
great! I want to learn from you.. for the rest of you, please show me
what you have.
 
I'd be happy to post a picture or two of my own display if anyone is
interested, just so you can see what I'm talking about. I've only
looked at the video on a scope so far and determined that it looks quite
sharp there. Other than that, I haven't started any serious
troubleshooting yet to even determine which subsystem(s) are actually at
fault, but I figured that assessing the picture quality based on reality
was a good first step.
 
The system has a WinTron from October of '97, and the deflection board
and HV board had cap kits installed and a few other components like the
+/- 24V regulators, BU406D, and deflection transistors replaced at that
time. I haven't touched the electronics since then.
 
If you email me a photo, send it to joel.rosenzweig@verizon.net
<mailto:joel.rosenzweig@verizon.net> . Or send a link to it, either
way.
 
Thanks for your time,
Joel-
 
 
         

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Received on Mon Feb 17 15:10:27 2003