Got a working ECS cable for use with WinDAS?

I have one of these kicking around somewhere. If I can find it its yours for $15 plus shipping ($5-ish).
 
ok cool. when you used it, what order are the pins on the monitor's connector from top pin to bottom? i've never gotten a solid answer on that one (so i know what way the plug needs to go)
 
Off the top of my head I cant remember. I'd need to look it up in my notes later.

By the way, is your monitor tinting blue, red or green? So far every trinitron based monitor I've owned over the years has turned the blacks to dark blue, green or red over the years, and it's impossible to fix, even with the WinDAS software. It's a sign of physical damage caused by wear inside the CRT itself - impossible to fix without a new CRT, which would effectively "total" the monitor.

Now if your blacks are turning grey (not blueish-grey, green or red) the cable can fix it.
 
You can make the blue darker, but the blue will not go away. The problem (as it was explained to me by a AV repair technician back when I was trying to fix the same problem a few years ago) is one of the color guns loses its ability to turn itself off entirely, even though the monitor's controller board thinks its off.

To put it another way: imagine you have a dam holding back a river, which is controlled by a computer. Over time, the dam starts to rust and holes form - causing the water to flow through the dam despite the fact that the computer "sees" the dam as fully closed. WinDAS (and the supporting hardware) can only try to close the dam tighter, but it cant patch the physical holes. The only way to fix the problem is for someone to physically fix the dam itself.

The problem is, the dam in your situation is sitting inside a near perfect vacuum being held together with glass and metal. The only way to fix it without thousands and thousands of dollars worth of equipment is to replace the whole CRT, which was 70-90% of the cost of the monitor when it was brand new.

Furthermore, the problem only gets worse over time. You might be able to buy yourself another 8 months with the monitor before it totally becomes unbearable, and you can only turn down the G2 spec so much before the other two colors become adversely effected as well. By the time I got rid of the Trinitron monitor I had which was turning blue, what it called "black" was pretty clearly a midnight blue, even to people who weren't looking for the issue and mentioned it in passing.

In short, if I were you I would put the money towards a brand new monitor, since the $20 you'd spend on the cable would only buy you a small amount of time before the monitor looks like shit even after adjustment. Maybe 8 months... maybe 10 if you're really lucky.
 
makes sense. I has a Sony E500 21" that I loved for years, I think it lasted me from 2000 till just a few months ago. its problem was the red gun, over the years that I had it, I had to periodically turn the red down to the point that it was at about 15% of its OEM spec'd intensity and it still wasnt enough to fix the problem completely.
 
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