Re: adjusting colors in Centipede monitor

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Before you get too gung-ho about resetting everything you should try a
full degaussing. It might be all you need.

Rod Spade wrote:

>I recapped the WG 19K4903 in my Centipede, and somehow managed to screw
>up all the colors. I'd prefer to avoid the full White Balance procedure
>in the manual, because it involves jumpers and an oscilloscope and
>fiddling with the Screen and Black Level controls and stuff. That's a
>little out of my league. I just want to tweak the pots on the yoke
>board to get decent colors.
>
>I assume the easiest way to do this is with a white test screen. The
>Centipede self-test mode lets you cycle through 16 background colors,
>but the manual doesn't say what they are! I can't tell if one of those
>colors is supposed to be white. Does anyone have a list of the
>Centipede self-test background color sequence?
>
>The pots on the yoke board are Red and Green Drive and Red/Green/Blue
>Cutoff. What's the difference between "Drive" and "Cutoff"? Can I just
>put some of those at max values and tweak the remainder, or must they
>all be adjusted through some iterative procedure? I know enough about
>the color spectrum to figure out what primary I need more or less of,
>but I don't know enough about how monitors work to figure out why you
>need five pots for it....
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Rod
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