This afternoon I had a couple hours to tune in my monitor.
There was a lot to be desired. The tube was vibrant but yellow, off center, a little blurry and had off color black detail and greyscale.
The access panel is riveted on the top, blocking my neck PCB on my monitor.
I had to disassemble the monitor mount again and placed the monitor on the floor to make all my adjustments. (I may drill through the rivets and replace with bolts and thumbscrews)
I started by centering the image with on the HPOS Pot. The CPS2 displayed far to the left before and unfortunately turning the pot all the way did not move the image far enough.
TIme to use one of my Axunworks RGB HV adjust boards to and finished centering my image. I forgot all about the RGB gain function. Ill have to come back next time and use that feature.
https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/axun-workshop-rgb-adjust-pcb.17094/
Horizontal, Vertical size and position worked great after that.
Next was color balance, Black detail, and greyscale. I have had limited success in this department on my RGB monitors for my consoles but something clicked when watching
@BuddyC 's Worked on lots o cabs thread and noticed an even color pluge on his cabs he worked on.
I used to eyeball SMPTE and was always way off. I watched a few youtube videos and was ready to roll! The key points of info I took away was to expect a balance between your variables as adjusting one effects the other.
I started by bringing up my color pluge. I adjusted the FOCUS knob first to get razor sharp detail. (No blur anywhere even the corners) Then SCREEN until the color bars were in a range to show black level and white level.
The colors were all over the place. Blue was low, green was screaming high.
balancing the color bars required using my RGB gain pots on the neckboard.
The black detail and greyscale were calibrated by turning the SCREEN pot UP till my blacks were polluted to bring out any colors that needed to CUTOFF.
I balanced my black until it looked pretty black with a blown out image
When I brought my SCREEN back down to jet black I was so excited, I wanted to do a cartwheel. It was even, juicy, vibrant, and perfectly balanced.
Pics don't do it justice. The colors cut into your eyeballs in contrast to the jet blacks beside them..
I used the shape grab feature on my iphone and it found RYU.
This is another first for me and I'm looking forward to balancing my other monitors in my cabs.