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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Humanoid on March 15, 2005, 11:49:13 am

Title: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: Humanoid on March 15, 2005, 11:49:13 am

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.

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: Ken Layton on March 15, 2005, 12:06:59 pm

I wouldn't know on computer monitors. My experience is with commercial arcade monitors.

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: 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).  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.

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: MonitorGuru on March 15, 2005, 12:14:40 pm

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.

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: MonitorGuru on March 15, 2005, 12:18:22 pm

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).

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: Wade on March 15, 2005, 04:19:58 pm

IIRC the Gateway destination monitors are really just TV's with a VGA input on them.  They definitely don't have the image quality of a real PC monitor.  I think they are likely more related to a TV than a PC monitor.  It would be worth investigating the possibility of a tube swap, IMO.

Wade

Title: Re: Can I reuse this chassis?
Post by: Humanoid on March 15, 2005, 08:21:46 pm

Yeah, thats what I loved about the monitor.  It looked like tv, but with better color/saturation and no annoying tv whine and the ability to actually read text at 800X600.