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Can I reuse this chassis?
Humanoid:
So I just completed my custom cocktail cabinet last night; for the grand finale I was going to put the monitor in for the last time. While placing the monitor into its custom mount, WWUUUSHHH! The sound of air rushing into a broken tube! :'( I spent the last 3 months building my cabinet around a 27" Gateway Destination monitor. So the tube is obviously trash now, but can I reuse the chassis on a different tube? The monitor was an 800x600 progressive (i.e. computer monitor) set with a lone vga input. If you reply it will lift my spirits as I dwell on my loss.
Ken Layton:
I wouldn't know on computer monitors. My experience is with commercial arcade monitors.
menace:
yeah but good luck finding a donor tube--when pc monitors stop working most people chuck them and you'll need to find one compatible with that chassis (same model). I guess at this point measure the vertical and horizontal ohms of the yoke and make a note of the number of pins in the necktube--who knows you might get lucky.
MonitorGuru:
If you found an idential tube then yes. Computer tubes arn't as interchangable as TV's/arcade monitors. Wide range of resolutions, phosphors, etc..
Plus, it probably had a significantly advance active yoke---in other words, rather than a simple wire wound yoke, it had PC boards with mini electromagnets and mutiple things wrapped around the yoke to allow you to do all the neat on-screen convergence, rotation, geometry control.
MonitorGuru:
--- Quote from: menace on March 15, 2005, 12:11:05 pm ---yeah but good luck finding a donor tube--when pc monitors stop working most people chuck them and you'll need to find one compatible with that chassis (same model).
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