Re: Cinematronics monitor: no horizontal intensity?

Try adjusting focus. I know it sounds silly, but try it anyway.

Gregg Woodcock wrote:

>I have a monitor in a Space Wars with a strange problem I can't wrap my
>brain around. I have perfect +/- Horizontal *deflection* as well as perfect
>+/- Vertical deflection. All vectors are the proper size, position and
>shape. The problem is that the horizontal intensities are 0. Now I know
>there's no horizontal intensity; there's only a merged/vector intensity.
>But that fact is EXACTLY what is freaking me out! I know the problem is in
>the monitor as I have another that works fine. If I can just figure out HOW
>such a symptom might be generated, I'm sure I'll narrow in on it
>immediately. The problem is primarily lack of experience; I've only ever
>had *deflection* problems (never even HV on these guys). I just can't
>understand how I'd get an intensity issue only for horizontal when the
>intensity is a shared signal. For example, if I coin up 4:30, the display
>*should* look like this:
>
>| | --| |--|
>|--| : --| | |
> | --| |--|
>
>but instead looks like this where all horizontal lines look like dots on the
>endpoints (maybe just 1 end):
>
>| | . | | |
>| | : . | | |
> | . | | |
>
>Additionally, it appears that whenever the vector has more VERTICAL than
>horizontal it has the proper intensity (as I recall Space War/s only used
>on/off, not high/low/off) but whenever the verctor has more HORIZONTAL than
>verticale, the intensity is 0. Unfortunately all chips are socketed. Any
>ideas?
>
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Received on Fri Mar 28 09:51:14 2003