degaussing question, plz help.

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I have a great arcade with a beautiful monitor in it. My problem is that it has to be faced a certain direction, north east to be exact. If I move it any other direction, the colors start to look way off and flat... I'm convinced that the degausing part of my chassis is dead. If I go buy a degaussing coil will it fix this. I would like to place it against a different wall. Thanks in advance.
 
I have a great arcade with a beautiful monitor in it. My problem is that it has to be faced a certain direction, north east to be exact. If I move it any other direction, the colors start to look way off and flat... I'm convinced that the degausing part of my chassis is dead. If I go buy a degaussing coil will it fix this. I would like to place it against a different wall. Thanks in advance.

I think your cabinet is too close to a magnetic field. Is it near speakers, or another monitor or tv?
 
No its actually in my garage and not close to anything. I've moved it all over my garage and its only good one way.
 
Manually degaussing it would most likely fix your problem...
Bob Roberts sells a nice one......
 
I have a great arcade with a beautiful monitor in it. My problem is that it has to be faced a certain direction, north east to be exact. If I move it any other direction, the colors start to look way off and flat... I'm convinced that the degausing part of my chassis is dead. If I go buy a degaussing coil will it fix this. I would like to place it against a different wall. Thanks in advance.

One of my games does the same thing. If I turn it 90 degrees, the colours go off. My manual degaussing coil fixes it right up.
 
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Pretty much any time you turn a monitor while it's on you'll get that. The earth's magnetic field affects color CRT's. It happens to television sets and computer monitors too.

All color monitors/TV's have built in degaussing circuits that fire when the set is turned on from being cold. So, shut the game off, put it where you want it, wait a half hour to an hour, and turn it on.

This is a common problem in cocktail games. People turn the game on with the monitor flipped up, do some adjustments, flip the monitor down, and now it's all out of whack. Gotta let it sit off for a while so the built-in degauss circuit will fire again.

Modern computer monitors usually have a manual degauss circuit you can activate from a front panel control. Try this for some fun - rotate your computer monitor 90 degrees, turning it onto it's side. The colors will get all screwed up as the earth's magnetic field affects the CRT. Use the front panel degauss control to fix it. Then, put the monitor back sitting up, and the colors are once again out of whack. For bonus points, do this to a co-worker's computer when he's out of the room.

-Ian
 
Pretty much any time you turn a monitor while it's on you'll get that. The earth's magnetic field affects color CRT's. It happens to television sets and computer monitors too.

All color monitors/TV's have built in degaussing circuits that fire when the set is turned on from being cold. So, shut the game off, put it where you want it, wait a half hour to an hour, and turn it on.

This is a common problem in cocktail games. People turn the game on with the monitor flipped up, do some adjustments, flip the monitor down, and now it's all out of whack. Gotta let it sit off for a while so the built-in degauss circuit will fire again.

Modern computer monitors usually have a manual degauss circuit you can activate from a front panel control. Try this for some fun - rotate your computer monitor 90 degrees, turning it onto it's side. The colors will get all screwed up as the earth's magnetic field affects the CRT. Use the front panel degauss control to fix it. Then, put the monitor back sitting up, and the colors are once again out of whack. For bonus points, do this to a co-worker's computer when he's out of the room.

-Ian

I have a nice TV production monitor that I use with my console games, and I tried rotating it 90 degrees (it is in a cube case so you just turn it) the picture goes all out of whack and the colors bleed. I though it was mechanical stress on the neck. It would have been nice because Namco Museum titles for the PSX have a rotated mode. I ended up using a Commodore 1702 which you can set on the side and the picture is unaffected. I picked it up with a commodore 64, a floppy drive, modem, printer, and a ton of software titles at a yard sale for $5! I need to re-align the floppy drive though.
 
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