Crisis Zone arcade monitor, Colors are a little... RED.

Sypth · Jan 22, 2011

Anyone know an easy fix to remedy this? Like I was thinking just mess with the small adjustment board inside the machine you usually mess with for screen size adjustment, but I don't see any listings for color... Any advice?

Hewitson · Jan 22, 2011

You should have gain controls for red, green and blue. It sounds like some moron may have cranked the red right up.

Sypth · Jan 22, 2011

Is that going to be on the monitor itself then? Like I've seen some actual monitors that have the little twist knobs on them for the colors. Is that what your referring too?

Hewitson · Jan 22, 2011

It may or not be, some monitors have the adjustment pots mounted on the rear of their chassis, others have them remotely mounted to the side of the cabinet or something.

Sypth · Jan 22, 2011

Oh okay so either way it should just be a knob that needs a little readjusting. Thanks, I just wanted to be sure I wasn't making an amateur mistake by picking up this cabinet.

Hewitson · Jan 22, 2011

I wouldn't say should, it could be a number of things including the game board. I wouldn't recommend buying it unless you can get a decent picture on the monitor, it may well be stuffed.

Sypth · Jan 22, 2011

Well I tested it out and the picture on the monitor isn't bad, Gun fires great, alignment is up to par, it just seems like the screen is bleached red, which makes it hard to see, but the board itself turns on and and goes through all the RAM tests and your able to play the game with no big deal other then it's just harder to see the enemies.

Dion · Jan 22, 2011

You may be missing a color.

Arcademan · Jan 22, 2011

If it's the standard upright, you may need to adjust the color on the monitor board. If most of the screen is red, your blue may be out. I used to have one of the big screen Crisis Zones and boy, were they a royal pain in the butt to keep working on the arcade scene since it took lots of abuse.

Sypth · Jan 23, 2011

Update

Well I adjusted all the pots in the machine and tried, tried again and I got the colors to look semi-normal, but it still looks really bad out of focus, not too bad not to play, but bad enough where you can barely read some text on the screen, especially when I put the game into test mode. Here's some pictures if that helps, I mean right now the greens look pretty bleached onto the right top corner of the machine no matter what you are doing, and the brightness and contrast are cranked almost all the way up, it might have like 1/4 of a turn left on the pot.

Arcademan · Jan 23, 2011

The color test shows all the colors present so most likely your monitor board may need to be re-capped. There are most experts in this line of thinking than I so they may give you more detailed information on this problem.

Dion · Jan 24, 2011

Cap kit would help probably. Not with the colors though. You do need a degaussing. Have you tried adjusting the focus pot on the flyback to try to deal with the fuzziness?

Hewitson · Jan 24, 2011

Also adjust the screen voltage which is the other pot on the flyback. You want it as high as possible without retrace lines showing.

Sypth · Jan 24, 2011

I'm actually confused on where to find the flyback pots, the monitor itself has 5 pots that I can see easily on the neckboard, 2 pots together in the beginning, and another 3 together at the other end. The 3 together by themselves seem like RGB, but I had two sets of eyes when I was adjusting so I can't say for sure what the other 2 did, I was just told it made it look better... Would degaussing itself fix the extreme fuzziness or will that just help out with the bleeding green colors?

Hewitson · Jan 24, 2011

Sypth said:
I'm actually confused on where to find the flyback pots, the monitor itself has 5 pots that I can see easily on the neckboard, 2 pots together in the beginning, and another 3 together at the other end. The 3 together by themselves seem like RGB, but I had two sets of eyes when I was adjusting so I can't say for sure what the other 2 did, I was just told it made it look better... Would degaussing itself fix the extreme fuzziness or will that just help out with the bleeding green colors?

Degaussing will help with your colour problem, the fuzziness is likely caused by the focus pot on the flyback being incorrectly adjusted.

channelmaniac · Jan 24, 2011

FIRST... Degauss the monitor. Before you do ANYTHING else.

NEXT... Adjust focus.

THIRD... Put the color bars on the screen and bring the green up a bit to match the brightness of the other colors.

After that, report back with pictures.

Hewitson · Jan 24, 2011

A mirror comes in very handy. You can't trust what anyone else says, especially if female.

Sypth · Jan 25, 2011

Lol no comment on the female part. I just gotta make a trip up to Frys to get a degaussing tool, and mess with the pots and I'll report back asap.

Sypth · Jan 25, 2011

Well I got a degaussing tool at Fry's and lets just say this thing is huge. It's 13 inches diagonal, aren't they supposed to be a tad bit smaller then that? Anyways, after degaussing, I'm getting no to little results from the degaussing itself, it doesn't make it any easier that the monitor is mounted in the machine at the bottom facing up and bouncing the image of a couple of mirrors. Never the less, I did the circle technique at least 3-4 times, giving at least 20-30 minutes in between to make sure I wouldn't damage the monitor. Here are the results though, monitor looks great other then the little green smudge in the corner, if it helps I do have it in my garage right now, it is literally inches away from a car, and a couple of hanging bikes, though I would only assume that magnetism would have any effect on the monitor being that way.

channelmaniac · Jan 25, 2011

Great!

Now adjust the "screen control" on the back of the flyback down slightly to get rid of the grey "blacks" and make the black look more like black.

RJ

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