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dturco · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject:

O.K. I am sure there is a problem, and no it is not me. The blue grid pattern goes up and off to the left on the screen and the convergence does nothing to move the blue grid on the screen so I ca not converge it in any way shape or form.
When I brought the P/J home the blue G-2 wire was off and so was the ground strap for the blue tube so I have to assume something was always amiss here.

I think Mike Parker is coming out next week to trouble shoot and walk me through the set-up. Maybe.

With the on screen menu shouldn't the dialogue box drop out after 5 seconds during raster set-up? It does not. I have gone into utilities pref. 5, 2, off it makes no difference.

What controls the on screen menu?

I think I have a bad neck board on the blue, and a stressed convergence board.

FREE ALL YOU CAN EAT CRAB DINNER TO ANYONE WHO WILL COME TO HELP ME.

AND GUINESS Thumbs Up

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EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND 40 MILES SOUTH OF SALISBURY MD

Anyone near me?

dturco · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:14 am Post subject:

Anyone?

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

I love the Northeast, especially that big park on the coast of Maine and Rockport and all that. Has a touch of sadness to it though, like ghost of bygone days when Fishing was plentiful and people were few.
If you can't move the Blue grid then the Blue Convergence channel is either not connected or simply blown. the fact that it's up and to the left suggest 2 of the 4 amps on Blue channel are dead This is the center card on the rear heat sink. Look for smoked resistors by the big stainlees transistor clips. Sad

dturco · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

like ghost of bygone days when Fishing was plentiful and people were few.

Crabbing is still done commercially on the docks of Crisfield where I live. You can watch " the catch" be unloaded daily.

As for people being few, the entire COUNTY, not city, or town, has only 25,000 people. The City itself has 2800 residents.

I like my peace and quiet. Laughing

And on topic I will be waiting for Mike Parker.

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

phishin_ca · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Salisbury, MD

dturco · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

dturco · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:30 pm Post subject:

Hip Hip Hooray!!

I pulled all off the neck boards, pulled the ribbon style connectors, all the connectors that were on the back flip down plate, cleaned them.......reconnected them.... And damn it now works Exclamation

I just had to let everyone know Mr. Green

Oh yeah all it took was the 9500 drawing blood from me to get it done. Truly I cut my finger.

Feed me seymour, Feed me. Twisted Evil

No the picture isn't perfect but it looks as good to me as it did the day I first saw it.

Let the tweaking begin. Laughing

stefuel · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

dturco · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 2:03 am Post subject:

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

the pin-outs on the tube aren't that fragile really. I've gotten some that wee bent into a Pretezel by clumsy hands jamming the board and was able to straighten them with needle nose pliers. The thing to watch out for is that little t*t of glass o nthe back, there the tube was pinched off after pumping down the vacuum. If you break that off tube is shot.
Also, leaving the white G2 bias wire off or putting it on the wrong pin, very bad.

dturco · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Well Phishin ca Just left after spending a few hours with me and the 9500. Guess what, He got it looking pretty damned good and then we put it back together and.... low and behold the damn blue drops out again. It does need a neck board. Rolling Eyes

Also When unplugged it loses the convergence. Phishin thinks it needs a battery? Where is this found on the 9500? He showed me what he thought it was and where,but said he wasn't positive so ask here.

So I'm asking.

All the stress aside I now know the 9500 will look good especially with a new Moome 1.3 with Gamma.

And a big, can't say how big I really mean, THANK YOU to Phishin ca. Thumbs Up

Crter's Rock Exclamation

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

phishin_ca · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 64 Location: Salisbury, MD

I was thinking on the drive home, We were not feeding the source when the convergence was off. I never converged the projector on the internal menus. Just the external source that was off, all you need is the neck board.

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Dragnm is right after you do convergence or before you do any set up make sure that memory location is not locked, that way any changes you make to brightness,contrast, geometry or convergence will stick, and if you dont want them to be changed once its all dialed in lock it. So hit utilities, source,and 3 to lock or unlock. And asr should be off as well as Dragan mentioned.

Athanasios

dturco · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:12 am Post subject:

dturco · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:19 am Post subject:

Draganm, I checked those.Thank you the memory is not locked no little icon.

Athanasios, thanks again for double checking.

Now a new Moome card or HD Fury for the best picture? Twisted Evil

dturco · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject:

Well I tried bill Blues guide in full yesterday. I did not go well. It was going good until, loosen the 3 wing nuts on the focus coils. Then it went to sh*t. No I did not break anything, it is just seriously out of whack and my patience has worn thin again. I have so little to begin with.

So Other than gently and patiently moving the coil around is there a, sure fire, exact way to do this?

Robert A. Hill · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 182 Location: Simpsonville, SC

Setting up the magnetics on any projector is an excercise in patience and persistence. If this is the first time you have tried it, then you will feel that there is no control over the process. Stay with it and you will develop skills you cannot get any other way. i do not think that any of these adjustments are easy to get perfect, but none are impossible by anyone with the desire to learn new skills. The experts on this forum started exactly where you are right now, they just stuck with overcoming all the obstacles until they were very proficient. Imagine how difficult it would be to learn all of this on your own without the iformation or guides on Curt site ! The guys who documented all of this were really faced with a learning opportunity. i am very thankful to them.

Raster centering on Ampros cannot be done by adjusting the focus coils as there is no play to speak of. I do not have an Electrohome, but I would like this extra dimension to adjust the projector. I have learned that very small changes in the
CPC magnet adjustments can make huge differences in PJ performance.