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**Curt Palme** · Last edited by Curt Palme on Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:40 am; edited 1 time in total

Open for discussion and critique.... Smile

It's online now. See: http://www.curtpalme.com/CRTSetupGuide.shtm

Tinman · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

Looks good to me! Very Happy

The thumb however...... bet that hurt.

Marc

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

Projector dropped on thumb.. ouch!

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

Here's part 2. I have left out astig and focusing and signal entry, I found the pictures AFTER I wrote the geometry writeup, so here's the geometry writeup, and I'll go in tomorrow and will insert what I missed at the beginning of this...

GEBrown · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 729 Location: Denver

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

WHat, the projectors are marked down as they might have the HIV, or I don't have long to live so I'm blowing them out?

Wink

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:38 am Post subject:

Here's part 1.25. to be inserted early in the first document since it's about signal entry.. Smile

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

Section 1.5- electronic astig and focusing.

Tinman · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:19 am Post subject:

Waiting for section 1.8, Cursing and screaming! Very Happy

-OR-

"Time to call a pro."

Marc

Mark_A_W · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:12 pm Post subject:

Some corrections:

- "Scheimpflug bolts" do not need to be loosened to adjust the Scheimpflug tabs, just the lens mounting bolts

- Phase is not the same as line distortion

- When you create a new input, picking default does not make the new input the default, it calls data from the default settings to create the new input.

I always use Temporary for a new res (coz Doug so), and often use Entry Number to copy one res to another (say if I'm creating a 72hz res when I already have created the very close 75hz res). But you wouldn't copy a 33khz signal to a 90khz one - they need to be close.

If I know what the default is I may use that. But the default settings are usually the factory ones, and are done at the factory for a 100" 4:3 screen - nothing like what we tend to use.

emdawgz1 · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 7949

Say Curt, as a suggestion. Can you make the files PDF?

I think it'll download and print easier.

Thanks for the info its helped me already.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

Will do.. once they are complted. They will all go up in the NEC and/or advanced sections. I just posted the documents here for critique and review.

scottap · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 177 Location: Palo Alto, CA

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

THe reason I left it out is that if you need the article, you're a newbie (no offense) that shouldn't be messing with the internal magnets in the first place.

It's pretty rare that I get a projector in where someone has messed up the magnetics... unless you're a newbie who ends up putting fingers where they shouldn't. (also indicated by the HV burn marks and the multiple Band Aids on the fingers..<grin>. Projectors that I get in surplus that have had tube changes in the past usually have been done by techs that know what they are doing.

But good point. I'll make a note about the silicone that seals the astig magnets. I'll include a pix of the factory seals...

I just don't want the emails to come in: " The set seemed pretty good, I read your article, messed with the astig magnets and now it's really effed up'... If you don't tell people where they are in the first place, there's less chance of them messing with them in the first place.

dbaisey · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject:

Curt,
The changes I would make Mark has addressed already. The images of the dot and H patterns dont show up to well. Anything you can do about that? Doug

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

composr · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 25

Curt, how much of this would be relevant to setting up a PG XTRA?

Thanks,

ray

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:19 am Post subject:

A lot of it.

Tomorrow I'll work on the convergence section. There's lots of similarities between the PG and XG setup, just skip over the part that's not relevant.

But hey, if you're asking, you're either already an expert, or are doing the 'guy' thing of 'instructions? I don't need to stinking instructions' <grin>

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

Mark_A_W · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:51 am Post subject:

Phase is different on an Xtra, as is Raster Centering.