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Title: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: thehammer12 on August 18, 2009, 12:40:03 am

Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong with a touchscreen monitor when the colors/picture is dark. This is the same game and it has the same problem. Is anyone familiar with it?





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Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 18, 2009, 02:34:58 am

Adjustments, capacitors, tube rejuvination......

Any idea what make/model monitor is in it ?

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: grantspain on August 18, 2009, 02:45:01 am

i worked on a fair few of those and they were tatung monitors-not very nice either

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: Encryptor on August 18, 2009, 05:45:24 am

If the picture is so dark you can barely make out what is on the screen it could be a blown backlight bulb which are a HUGE PIA to change.


Encryptor

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 18, 2009, 01:59:38 pm

Quote from: Encryptor on August 18, 2009, 05:45:24 am

If the picture is so dark you can barely make out what is on the screen it could be a blown backlight bulb which are a HUGE PIA to change.

PIA yes....... but this is a CRT, no backlight bulbs.   ;)

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: grantspain on August 18, 2009, 02:07:12 pm

i can tell you that we had quite a few with duff crt's

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: thehammer12 on August 18, 2009, 07:31:39 pm

Kevin, how do you know its a crt? and if it is where can I get touchscreen crt's from or is it repairable?

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 18, 2009, 11:57:10 pm

Quote from: thehammer12 on August 18, 2009, 07:31:39 pm

Kevin, how do you know its a crt?

Well, not to sound funny or nothing...... but can tell just by looking at it. Curved face and all.
(plus the size of machine, yada, yada)

I would assume this is a 19" CRT.
I've seen several places online list them, but in all reality the "touchscreen" and the "monitor" are two different beasts. So you could actually replace the monitor and remove and remount the touchscreen from the old one. (carefully)
Big thing to find out is if it is a VGA monitor or not.

Hit up a slot machine company....... they're getting rid of VGA CRT monitors left and right.
Literally throwing them away. I have a few. ;D

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: thehammer12 on August 21, 2009, 12:17:30 am

Can you recommend me any good slot machine companies??

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 21, 2009, 01:34:13 am

There aren't any "good" ones.   :laugh2:

Actually the smaller companies are the ones most likely to have CRT's still laying around.
Most of the big companies have already converted over to LCD's for most of their machines.

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: thehammer12 on August 21, 2009, 11:52:36 pm

Hmm I will look in to this asap.

Title: Re: Touchscreen monitor is too Dark HELP...
Post by: M.Lanza on August 28, 2009, 10:02:52 am

Have you tried adjusting the brightness knob on the back of the flyback transformer?