bungy
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I'm in the middle of a tube swap with a G07 but I can't get it converged. I know the procedure and I can converge most monitors pretty easily, but I've run in to a problem with this one and I'm not sure what to do.
The donor tube's yoke did not match, so I'm using the original G07 yoke. The donor's purity rings were connected to the original yoke. I marked the rings positions and the position on the tube before I removed them. Then I used a Dremel and cut the ring assembly off the original yoke.
I put the G07 yoke on the new tube and push it up to the wedges. Then I put the rings on, but they don't go up to original position on the neck. Turning on the monitor, the colors look ok as in the yoke is in the correct position, but the convergence is all out of whack. It seems I can adjust the top half of the screen to be ok, but then the bottom is all whacked out. Like unnacceptably whacked out. And vice-versa. There is no middle ground as the whole monitor will look messed up if I try to compromise on either side.
If I take the wedges out and push the yoke all the way up, the rings go up to the original position and the convergence is a dream. But the colors are all messed up because of the yoke position. No amount of manual degaussing will fix it.
If the yoke is in the correct position, the rings need to move up exactly the length of the yoke clamp. The best I can come up with is to Dremel off the yoke clamp, and epoxy the ring assembly to the yoke. I doubt the tube will ever have to be swapped again, but you never know, and I hate making permanent alterations for things that might not be permanent.
Has anyone ever run into this problem? What would you do?
The donor tube's yoke did not match, so I'm using the original G07 yoke. The donor's purity rings were connected to the original yoke. I marked the rings positions and the position on the tube before I removed them. Then I used a Dremel and cut the ring assembly off the original yoke.
I put the G07 yoke on the new tube and push it up to the wedges. Then I put the rings on, but they don't go up to original position on the neck. Turning on the monitor, the colors look ok as in the yoke is in the correct position, but the convergence is all out of whack. It seems I can adjust the top half of the screen to be ok, but then the bottom is all whacked out. Like unnacceptably whacked out. And vice-versa. There is no middle ground as the whole monitor will look messed up if I try to compromise on either side.
If I take the wedges out and push the yoke all the way up, the rings go up to the original position and the convergence is a dream. But the colors are all messed up because of the yoke position. No amount of manual degaussing will fix it.
If the yoke is in the correct position, the rings need to move up exactly the length of the yoke clamp. The best I can come up with is to Dremel off the yoke clamp, and epoxy the ring assembly to the yoke. I doubt the tube will ever have to be swapped again, but you never know, and I hate making permanent alterations for things that might not be permanent.
Has anyone ever run into this problem? What would you do?
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