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[mendoteach]

Last night after spending countless hours getting the mechanical set-up dialed on the Barco 980/NEC 6PG+, I pressed play-it had been PAUSED-on the Blu Ray player (for a little motivation, still had a lot of electronic convergence to do), when the whole image went to hell. The crosshairs went a foot or so from the center, much convergence was lost and the right side of the picture got a serious case of f'ed up geometry. What in the hades happened? Should I have left the Blu-ray playing when I did all the raster/image centering, astig etc.? To top it all off, I decided to shut down and turn it back on for kicks. It wouldn't come on. The red LED would blink on the board and then shut off. No error codes thrown (or I don't know where to look), just wouldn't start back up. Ideas? Any help much appreciated.

Matt

[Curt Palme]

Yes, the NECs are sensitive to signals, and chances are it jumped to a different memory location. It's IMPERATIVE that you have a live running signal to the NEC while setting it up.

BTW, it's a RUNCO 980, not a Barco.

THis set is now pretty old, and loss of picture can be a bunch of things. If the test patterns don't come up, then you could have problem on your system and/or wave boards or the deflection board. I can repair those for pretty cheap, as I've done a few now, and I upgrade a bunch of components so those boards stay reliable.

[Curt Palme]

Yes, the NECs are sensitive to signals, and chances are it jumped to a different memory location. It's IMPERATIVE that you have a live running signal to the NEC while setting it up.

BTW, it's a RUNCO 980, not a Barco.

THis set is now pretty old, and loss of picture can be a bunch of things. If the test patterns don't come up, then you could have problem on your system and/or wave boards or the deflection board. I can repair those for pretty cheap, as I've done a few now, and I upgrade a bunch of components so those boards stay reliable.

[mendoteach]

Yes it's a Runco 980, I don't know why I said Barco. I guess I've been spending way too much time staring at pages on curtpalme.com. I assume when you say a live signal the 'paused' Blu Ray signal wasn't live. Come to think of it, the upper board that Runco put on the projector (not exactly sure what it does) has 10 LED corresponding to different inputs. It did jump from the number one to the number three. One of these days, sooner probably, you're getting some board from this projector, because I'm sure I'm going to kill it before I get it set-up. It is a a low hour machine, but electronics still age with time.