Sun 21" CRT horizontal lines :(

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Elledan

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A friend offered me his old Sun 21" CRT, and while I'd love to swap out one of my 17" CRTs with it, one issue about this monitor bothers me:

There are numerous faint lines (red, green, blue right next to each other), each a few cm apart. Despite trying to fix this by the options offered in its OSD, as well as trying multiple input sources on its two inputs (one Sun connector, one VGA), the lines remain. I also noticed that those lines scale with the resolution used, so that they're a lot more noticable at 800x600 than at 1600x1200.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I might at least make this issue less severe? It isn't super-annoying right now, but it's kind of like with the wires of Trinitron monitors. Yes, I prefer shadowmask CRTs ;)

Thanks in advance.
 
Icec0o1 said:
I don't believe you can do anything about that.
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The guns are mis-aligned and out of focus, it will cost you less just to replace it.

Someone probably dropped the monitor, I would suggest the DELL P1230 (it is the last 22" FD trinitron sony tube before they were discontinued)
 
kleox64 said:
The guns are mis-aligned and out of focus, it will cost you less just to replace it.

Someone probably dropped the monitor, I would suggest the DELL P1230 (it is the last 22" FD trinitron sony tube before they were discontinued)
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I see :( well, thanks for the information :)

I'll stick with my current 19" and 17" CRTs for the time being, I guess. Until I stumble over a good deal, that is ;)
 
kleox64 said:
...I would suggest the DELL P1230 (it is the last 22" FD trinitron sony tube before they were discontinued)
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The P1230 is a rebranded Diamondtron, not a Sony tube. You're probably thinking of the P1130.
 
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