[SunRescue] Dim Monitors (WAS: What exactly is a Sun 4/25 ?)

[Alexander Bochmann]

Hi,

...on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:17:06PM -0400, Jeff Borisch wrote:

 > I have a NeXT meagpixel monitor that is exceptionally dim. For obvious 
 > reasons I want to get this working to play with its accompanying Cube. 

This is covered in the NeXT FAQ, unfortunately...

http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/192.html

 > With the hood off I can see access holes to some pots. There are labels 
 > such as focus, horz cent, and the like. These are pretty obvious what 
 > they do. There is one called white point which I tweaked a bit and it 
 > made the picture a bit brighter. I was afraid to go further because of 
 > what iv'e heard about generating x-rays. For example, there is a pot 
 > labelled cutoff... cutoff what?! 

I don't think there will be serious radiation problems; AFAIK even 
real old monochrome monitors don't have problems to meet modern 
radiation standards. But if you have a monitor with a worn CRT 
cathode, there is probably not much you can do, except turning 
up the brightness until it dies completely...

Alex.