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redfox001
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The context was that I clamed my money back through paypal afer waiting months. And for that Mike Parker wants to get back at me. Anyone wonder why we got the opinion that Mike Parker was a dangerous guy?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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One other thing seems unclear. I repaired my own boards and have no intend to revealing any info to the public.
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redfox001
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This was posted on another forum
| nashou wrote: | | redfox314 wrote: | | The problem with Mike is that he bullied me for things I had no idea I was doing wrong. First for mentioning I would get mods at all. Still do not know why that was. Than for mentioning there was a problem with the boards. He would get angry on discussing potting the boards. He would get angry when I asked did you send them as promised? Than he got angry because replaced all resistors after he told me to replace a few. I was not supposed to work on the boards. Than he got angry that I talked to Strid about the problem. Finally he got angry because I used my Paypal rights to get my last money back before christmas. As I said before he has no problem letting people wait forever as he likes his machine and he likes to mod and he is not interested in you at all. The only thing he is interested in is his pride on the phorum and that you praise him as often as possible. If you do that and not critisise or discuss with him. By God do not dicuss with him. You might get your boards when he is in a good mood. |
Mike threatened me with leagal action years ago when I started the marquee thread on Curts site. He said I was slandering him ? I have no idea how.
He doesn't like me for some reason. And I really do not know why.
Oh well Just live well and be good to people and you will be rewarded in the end.
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mp20748
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hey I found this on another forum. It was posted about 22 hours ago. I took pictures of it in the event you delete it:
"I have to admit that Mike Parker made good boards. Without the potting and after a lot of repairing I am now starting to see some potential. Nice  Hope we can reverse engineer enough so that if he stops "we" can continue"
I know you said a few threads back that you would not disclose my mods. But who is is the WHO in the comment?
And btw, though there has been some friction between Nash and myself, I only remember it be very minor. Really don't recall a threat of slander at all. Actually don't ever remember him saying anything about me unit reading this today. To my memory, he has always been a very decent guy. Not at all like you.
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I figured since you've been trying to reverse engineer my mods, that I would post my images again. That way you would have a reference to let you know when you're getting close. And as I've said before, these shots were taking without me touching up my projector, because both focus and convergence is slightly off.
Also, and so that you're know. I already know about your inquiries as to what IC's and such that I've been using... and at this point I might even tell you...... well I'll give that some thought. I'm thinking since so much has changed from what I was doing when you got your boards. And that chip on the mini board. It is not the same thing on the latest.
These are best viewed when the surrounding environment is dark
url=http://postimg.org/image/f3s3n7y3p/full/] [/url]
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redfox001
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| redfox001 wrote: | Oh sinnerman this is how I got your boards all potted 
Contrast at 100
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I paid $1182 for this and it was never fixed. After removing the potting one neckboard was very low on bandwidth. One was very low in gain because two of the motorolla transistors where broken without the modifier noting this. One was just bad in bandwidt. Not at all like the 300 MHz that was promised and that I waited almost a year for.
How is it possible that the modifier did not see that the neckboards where so dark as the screenshot shows? Did he never test them together? What did he need all thos months for? What was he doing? Certainly not testing videoboards.
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I have to ask, If it was like that when you received it, why didn't you just return it? I am sure Mike would of fixed the problem at no extra cost.
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redfox001
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Sur ask. It is a good question. After a year I finally got these boards. I could send them back but how long would it take to get them again?
So Mike sugested I would remove the potting from the neckboards and I agreed. Than the rest was revealed. 
This was the bandwidth of one board in the complete chain delivered by mike. Moome vim and nevkboard.
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About the extra costs. Mike wanted to sell me new neckboards. 450 dollar with return of the old boards. But he did not do that because he felt not comfortable sending them. That was the last thing we seriously communicated. I got my 450 back.
So I ended up with the sh*t but repaired them with the help of mastertech on another forum.
Yeeeaah!
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| gregstv wrote: | | I have to ask, If it was like that when you received it, why didn't you just return it? I am sure Mike would of fixed the problem at no extra cost. |
There is a very long story on this that for some reason he seems to not remember. When he initially got them, there was a gain problem we tried to fix from his end. So he used whatever resistors he had which were leaded and way too large. So he wanted to do the repairs on that end with his terrible skills and knowledge. And then he decided to do all kinds of things to the boards. He should remember me posting even on the forum for him to stop tinkering. He insisted to later saying that there were other problems with the boards and that he had swapped all the parts from another board to the modified boards. And then later after he complained about other problems, he said he had to replace all these parts. So how can the boards go from just being dark on all three. To needing power transistors and such. The long wait was also partly because he chose to wait for every change I had been working on. And so did Wolfman. But he never complained.
He also ripped Curt saying he also ripped him off. I've been getting a plenty text and calls about the things this guy has been doing to the boards, and the lies he has been saying about me. He hangs out on another forum where I've been told they hate me, Curt and others. So knowing how mixed up his thinking is, he seem to also have someone to beef with. He only comes over to this forum to stir the pot.
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redfox001
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This was the first mail after the potting was removed and I changed resistors as Mike told me to.
Notice the drive/gain problem that was their all the time.
Quote from email
Ok I did a first setup and focus and astig was not done in the zones and not perfect astig so a lot of improvement possible.
First I tried to calibrate. I found I had to set brightness to 90 to get some blackdetail but that could be solved by setting the G2 to 64-66. I do not know if those G2 vallues are normal for Marquee. Now brightness is back to 50.
But more problematic was the drive setting. I had to set blue drive to 0 and Green drive to 100 to get close. Red was somewhere halfway. So it seems blue is to bright still or green is to dimm or both.
The picture that shows the bandwidth right away was send at the same time.
No problems was suddenly apearing later. And it is not a complicated story.
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| redfox001 wrote: | About the extra costs. Mike wanted to sell me new neckboards. 450 dollar with return of the old boards. But he did not do that because he felt not comfortable sending them. That was the last thing we seriously communicated. I got my 450 back.
So I ended up with the sh*t but repaired them with the help of mastertech on another forum.
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He was offered the set of boards because he destroyed the set he had. I'm not warranting a very damaged set of boards and that's why we talked about him buying a set from me. I changed mind because I did not want him to do the same to the second set. Plus he was telling me then that he had swapped all the parts from another set of boards to fix the problem he actually created on that set
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This was the reply from Mike confirming the bandwidth problem right away in the beginning. It was also the reason why he offered me a new set of neckboards. Had nothing to do with my soldering skills
Sending the images was perfect. The problem is not a gamma problem, there seem to be a bandwidth issue on two of them. Which is very wierd, because all three should have the same components on them.
What is a good time for use to talk over the phone about this?
-----Original Message-----
From: tjeerdvandenberg
To: Michael Parker
Sent: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 3:46 pm
Subject: SMPTE resolution
SMPTE resolution.
The first is green neckboard on green.
The second is blue neckboard on green.
The third is red neckboard on green.
This probable all has to do with the wrong gamma on the red and the wrong gain on the blue I think?
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| gregstv wrote: | | I have to ask, If it was like that when you received it, why didn't you just return it? I am sure Mike would of fixed the problem at no extra cost. |
I can attest that Mike will certainly backup his work. When I had an issue with my 03 VIM he spent hours on the phone walking me through various changes and we also mailed boards back and forth countless times while beta testing. Sometimes I think people forget that Mike has a day job and it's not modding Marquees
Mike's spent a great deal of time working on getting top performance AND stability in the chain. I've been helping test these mods with Mike for 2-years and it can get frustrating at times because it feels like for every step forward we take, it's followed by 2 steps back. Patience is key when modding and in the end it all works out:thumbsup:
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| redfox001 wrote: | About the extra costs. Mike wanted to sell me new neckboards. 450 dollar with return of the old boards. But he did not do that because he felt not comfortable sending them. That was the last thing we seriously communicated. I got my 450 back.
So I ended up with the sh*t but repaired them with the help of mastertech on another forum.
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Mac is awesome; helped me out as well when I had an issue with my VIM. Another one who freely spends his time helping others. I sure hope you don't screw up that relationship the way you have the one with Mike.
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Hi Mike I put in an unmodified neckboard and with contrast 75 I am at 8 ftL and I can go up much higher. So Somehow the modified neckboard has less gain as we have noticed before. With the modified neckboards on green I have 5 ftL max. This is the first time I really measured the exact ftL that is why I mailed this.
Hope I will get the new neckboards soon as I suspect they will solve this problem too.
Thanks!
This email is an exact measurement of the gain problem.
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Thank you jbmeiet for your good hopes for me feels warm and so honest.
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Let me make this one point very clear.
I send a set of boards to Mike so he would make them high bandwidth. After a year he sends them back and he did not even notice that the bandwidth of the neckboards was very low. Could I destroy bandwidth with a solering iron? How is this possible if Mike did not ideliberately send bad neckboards or is out of his mind?
Quote from mike saying that the boards have a bandwidth problem. Something that slipped his attention?
Even if the resistor values were off, it would not cause that problem.
I have to warn you that by removing parts yourself without involving me is not a good idea. We had already isolated that it was a board problem, and since I've been doing these mods for almost 15 years, shouldn't I know where that problem would most likely exist
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I would of sent the boards back untouched. This would of saved all these problems. I been in the repair game for over 30 years. I would have a major problem if someone touched my work and then blamed me for it not working. I would want the items returned untouched if I was giving warranty.
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