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Z-Photo · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

I was trying to wait until you got it in hand - would hate to bash an ampro (unfairly) if you found the one (thats actually works)...

but it was a slow monday

incova · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 789 Location: london

your kindness knows no measure......

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

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incova · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 789 Location: london

can you blame him?

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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:12 am Post subject: Re: lol

tommo2 · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 226 Location: Ireland

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: Re: U.S vs U.K plugs

tommo2 · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 226 Location: Ireland

incova · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 789 Location: london

You called a Irish guy uk boy rofl, i dont think Tommy is to happy, neither am I right now I think the installed green tube has Fungus if I am not mistaken.

Oh yes looking at Curts site and Fungus removal thats indeed fungus I have in the installed green tube it was looking a little dew like in there then I thought, fungus! arroo. Hmmm lenses of and the blue and green are worn, tubes are now red 9, green 8, blue 8.5 still good enough considering the backup blue is the same as the installed one. Ok I am going to drain the old green tube get the c element of that one as this one seems infected, or maybe I should take the entire lc housing of and replace one with the other, hmmm. Confused

jkruger · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA

England, Ireland, What's the diff? Y'all talk funny.

tommo2 · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 226 Location: Ireland

Zebu Fellenz · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2567

incova · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 789 Location: london

Ok, getting somewhere now, I replaced the housing on the green tube and the c element with a green c element and put it back together. Pj came on and I ran it with 1024 768 just to test for problems, ran into two problems, one was the picture was unstable, I sent this to Scott:

I have put the ampro 4600 on and connected the htpc nulled a channel and the picture is rolling upwards I think, its not hum though, I pressed 36 to see if the signal was being read properly and it kept changing slightly. Is there a specific board that could cause this fault, the picture just is not stable although the help menu is so I can set it up, but the test patterns are a bit on off. When I put the pj on for the first second it holds the picture but then loses it entirely, from looking at code 36 the signal seems a touch unstable as the number does not stay constant.

Scott told me to take the jumper of LK5 on the rgb board I think you guys call it a shorting plug? anyway, this fixed it, thanks again Scott.

Second problem I have not fixed is that the pj does not like shutting off!?, basically when I put it of it says powering down then it powers down then says initializing, so it basically restarts itself, I have to shut it of about 4 times to get it to shut of properly and just say Ampro 4600. I did try to just shut it of at the power switch at the back as soon as it powered down but I think I blew the two fuses at the back doing this when it tried to restart, so I make sure it goes off like it wants to.

Aside from that it looks quite good, I checked the battery and the power is at 3.68v with the pj unplugged, so its fully powered I hope. Hopefully someone can explain why it comes back on Neutral

tse · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1014 Location: Sweatbucket, Fl.

Push the power button then release. Do it quick, only push the button for 1/2 second. If you hold it too long it stuffs the buffer full of on/off, on/off cycles. Once you get used to turning Ampros on and off it is really strange to turn Marquees on and off.

Scott

incova · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 789 Location: london

i will give that a try, thanks again!