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Title: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 27, 2004, 09:09:42 pm

The top corners of my arcade monitor picture is kind of bent in the top corners. I can deal with it but i would like to fix it.

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: Witchboard on November 27, 2004, 09:12:53 pm

Does it stay in the same place or roll up/down the screen?

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 27, 2004, 10:23:57 pm

It stays in the same place.


-Kyle

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: SirPeale on November 27, 2004, 10:43:21 pm

Capkit?  How old is it?

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 27, 2004, 11:15:18 pm

Has a new cap kit....

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: SirPeale on November 28, 2004, 04:09:28 pm

Degaussing is what you do when the colors are rainbow-y.  You've got - I think - pincushion.  Not sure what to do about that.  Ken?

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: Ken Layton on November 28, 2004, 11:57:13 pm

Make and model of monitor please.

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 29, 2004, 04:34:02 pm

It is a Wells Gardner 27" Standard resolution monitor.

MODEL # WG2774


-Kyle

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 29, 2004, 09:13:42 pm

UPDATE:

I emailed the person I bought it from and he agreed it looked like it was pincushion. There is no pincushion adjustment on the controller, so is there a manual way to correct this?

-Kyle

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: Ken Layton on November 29, 2004, 10:15:17 pm

The pincushion coil could be bad. It is not adjustable. Does this monitor have a plug-in "pincushion correction board"?

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on November 30, 2004, 04:40:33 pm

Im not sure. How can i tell if it does? What do i look for?

-Kyle

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: mamerocks87 on December 01, 2004, 12:17:41 pm

Could the problem be with the resolution or refresh rates?  The screen has blurry corners.  I really would like to fix this because i doubt my guns will work with this because the picture does not fill up the entire screen. It will probably be miss calibrated.  Also what does a plugin pincushion correction thingy look like? Please help,

-Kyle

Title: Re: monitor picture is bent....
Post by: Ken Layton on December 03, 2004, 12:23:52 am

Oh, you have a Wells 7400 monitor. I don't usually see those monitors in machines I work on.

All the pincushion stuff is built into the main monitor board. Pincushion coil or pincushion correction circuitry may have problems.