Re: My RGB went green!

[peterm@tlp.apana.org.au (Peter Maloney)]

astdm@orion.alaska.edu writes:

> In article <36emkn$i38@lucy.infi.net>, dynasor@infi.net 
> (Dennis McClain-Furmanski) writes:
> 
> [ original cut ]
> 
> > A reprint from the archives of The Road Apple, 1991:
> >  
> > All Green can Give you the Blues and Make you See Red
> > by Dennis McClain-Furmanski
> 
> 
> My friend lost his RGB but it is all RED (redish-orange) vs. the green screen
> in this article.  Is this the same problem but a different choke?  Has anyone
> ever had a RED screen.  Me and my lack of tech was just assuming that it was 
> different mix of colors to create the GREEN (or RED) screen.  Can anyone
> provide any light on this one?
> 
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I have had a couple of RGB screens in here for repair that were showing 
(or rather flooding) only one primary colour. The cause is a small 
inductor on the tube base card that goes open. With no control voltage on 
that colour channel it goes full-on and drowns out the others. 
The fix is to identify the failed inductor (a small green lump about 
twzVice the size of a match-head) and short it out. The real fix is to 
replace it.    *<8o)X
Regds,
 Peter M.

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