Adjusting Arcade Monitor

[savj14]

I'm not too sure what Arcade Monitor I have, but I believe it is an older Wells Gardner. It is a 19" Monitor pulled from an MK2 Cabinet.

I find myself trying to adjust the Brightness, Contrast, and the colors to find the perfect the combination. This is an older monitor so I have to turn all of the knobs, but I can never seem to get the colors and brightness just right.

I have been using different games like Street Fighter 2, and have been trying to match the colors up with how I remember them looking. I there an Application or anything I can use to get eh Monitor running at its best settings???

[Ken Layton]

Use the Street Fighter 2's test mode and go into the monitor test patterns. You want the one with the red, gree, blue, and white scales on screen at once.

If your contrast control is set too high, colors will bleed and focus won't be good.

[savj14]

I will give that a shot. When adjusting the colors, how do I know when to use the Cut offs and when to use the Drives for each of the colors???

There is also two seperate settings for Focus and I forget the other one, but it is almost like a different brightness adjustment.

[Ken Layton]

On the flyback are "Focus" and "Screen" controls. You can consider the screen control as a coarse brightness.

In general, set the "drive" controls at mechanical center and use the cutoff controls to tweak colors.