Asteroids Deluxe black levels?

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Just finished tweaking the brightness on the G05 on my Asteroids Deluxe. I tried to get it so that the black parts of the screen are as close to black as possible such that you don't see a glowing rectangle in the silvered mirror reflection. Can you get there with a properly rebuilt monitor? It's still a very slight grey. . . did they ever get really close to black so that you can't distinguish the monitor from outside of the monitor in a dark room?
 
I got the black light working in my Omega Race again. This proves to me that I should be able to get blacker blacks on the Asteroids Deluxe. I tweaked brightness all the way down on the Asteroids Deluxe and still had high black levels. I haven't found contrast yet. . . would tweaking that possibly lower the black levels? Are high black levels a sign of any particular part that needs replacing?
 
I have the same issue with my Asteroids Deluxe. I tried adjusting it out (found all the adjustable knobs listed in my AD and monitor manuals) but still not luck.
 
The recommend black light among collectors is the dark purple black light. IIRC the manual specifies the white black light, and that's too bright.

Other recommendations- pull the half silvered mirror and clean that throughly on both sides, start with Mean Green to cut the cigarette tar, then finish with Windex. Do the same with the monitor face, and carefully clean the blue gel. Follow all that up with a dusting of the cardboard background using a Swiffer before putting the mirror back in, and you should see a much improved picture.

Also, go into test mode and adjust the levels using the vector gray scale provided, everything should not be super brite on a correctly adjusted monitor, there should be at least two levels of visible vectors.
 
I picked up a working one a while back, and the monitor is pitch black, with nice blue objects on it, so yes it will definately go black.
 
I picked up a working one a while back, and the monitor is pitch black, with nice blue objects on it, so yes it will definately go black.


My asteroids and star castle are black, black. My Omega Race, can't get it. The black light makes the tube glow. Looking around the room I have several games that the tubes glow under black light when off. I'm wondering if the tube just needs to be replaced.

I fixed my problem on the Omega race by putting color film over the tube (that it had originally anyway). That seems to cut down the UV hitting the tube and has fixed my gray box that was reflecting. Now all I see is vector goodness.
 
My asteroids and star castle are black, black. My Omega Race, can't get it. The black light makes the tube glow. Looking around the room I have several games that the tubes glow under black light when off. I'm wondering if the tube just needs to be replaced.

I fixed my problem on the Omega race by putting color film over the tube (that it had originally anyway). That seems to cut down the UV hitting the tube and has fixed my gray box that was reflecting. Now all I see is vector goodness.

Ah ha!!! I have the film on the Omega Race, which looks perfect, but I haven't installed it on the Asteroids Deluxe yet, so it is white. I always wondered why they put such a subtle film on Omega Race. . could it have just been there to bring down the black levels? Awesome!
 
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