A nice green tint.

[johnnybleu]

I recently bought a working cab, with what I assume is the original monitor. Anyway, the colors on the monitor are pretty faded, and everything's sortta greeenish... As far as I can tell, the only adjustments for the monitor are things like size, position, contrast, and brightness.

Should there be adjustments for tint, color balance, or even RGB somewhere- or is the monitor just old?

Thanks!

[SirPeale]

Knowing the make/model of monitor, as well as a picture of the screen, would be helpful.

[johnnybleu]

Oh, yes, of course! Sorry 

The monitor (as far as I can tell) is a WG 25K7193, running a Zenith EIA 1101 tube. Those numbers could be way off- there's stickers and numbers everywhere back there.

Here's some screenshots too- mind you I'm no expert at taking pictures of a screen. I guess it's more of a blueish-green tint. And you can enjoy the nice screen burn too.





Anyway, I don't know if it just needs degaussing (I doubt) or a cap kit, or even just some adjustments. Whatever the case, I just hope the monitor's not on it's last leg. 

Thanks!

Oh, I also wanted to add.... I noticed a sticker on the frame that said something along the lines of "120V 60Khz max". Does that mean that this monitor can actually handle a 60Khz video signal? As in, I wouldn't need special software to run Mame on it? Or is that just something else...?

[SirPeale]

Check again...it says "60 Hz" not "60KHz".

It's hard to say from those pictures.  Street Fighter has a video test mode with color stripes, can you post a picture of that screen?

[SirPeale]

Oh, a green tint may be caused by the green drive on the neckboard being turned up too high. 

[johnnybleu]

Alright, here's the color test screen. Again, it's hard to capture colors truthfully with a camera- especially if you don't know what you're doing.



Also, I did find 6 more knobs on the back of the monitor- R DRIVE, R CUT OFF, G DRIVE, etc etc etc.
So you're saying I should turn down the green drive and see if that does it? Or basically, just trying to adjust the colors with those... Anything in particular I should watch out for? Can I damage anything, or should I go to town and find a setting that looks good?

Thanks again for the help!

[SirPeale]

Yes, turn the green drive down just a hair.

[johnnybleu]

Alright, well I played around with the red, green, and blue "drive" knobs and got a pretty decent picture!
Looks fine to me. It's a tad dim, but that's just coz I'm running a PC with no video amplifier.... Anyway, that's another matter.

Thank you for the help! I'm just glad no costly repairs and/or replacements are needed!