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mikeshole
Joined: 09 Dec 2012
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:42 am Post subject: Sony VPH-1292 has a black, squiggly, vertical line. |
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Hi guys. New member and CRT Projector owner here. After going through this forum and others, reading about CRT projectors I just had to buy one and get my hands dirty.
So I bought this projector and it has slightly over 4,000 hours on the bulbs. They all look great. I haven't calibrated anything yet. I just turned the projector on and looked directly into the lenses. Everything is a solid color, very bright and vibrant. However on each crt (red,green and blue) there is a thin, squiggly, black, vertical line in the far left side.
It doesn't look like the streaking issue that is common with this model. I'm not really sure what's going on, but I know it can't be good.
Any ideas on how to go about fixing this?
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AnalogRocks
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Hi Mike,
Welcome to the forum.
Please call the "bulbs" tubes. Bulbs are for those digital guys. 
What source are you running to the 1292?
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mikeshole
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A thousand apologies. Very glad to be here. I don't have a source connected yet. I just fired it up and stared directly into the tubes. The BNC connectors were dented a bit during transport, so I'll carefully straighten them out and buy a BNC to VGA cable the moment Goodwill opens up this morning. (I saw one there for a couple bucks).
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AnalogRocks
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Wait 'till you have a source connected. Those lines you see may be nothing.
Can you take a picture of them in the mean time?
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mikeshole
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My cell phone can't focus on it. But you were right. It didn't appear when I connected S-Video. I'm still waiting on a BNC to VGA cable.
I don't have a remote; is it still possible to get into service mode? The instructions for entering test mode are simple, but whenever I press the test button it tells me "Not applicable."
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kabuby77
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You have to keep the button pushed until it disappear
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Curt Palme
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YEs, hold the test button down continuously until 'do you wish to enter the service mode' appears. Hold the button down on the projector keypad, not the remote.
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mikeshole
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Jesus. Thanks, guys. That's all that was.
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