- Apr 19, 2014
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Hi!
I have an old Eizo Flex Scan F553-M CRT monitor which some months before started losing it's blue component. I like this piece of hardware, so if possible, would like to keep it in operation: it still has a very nice picture (when the blue finally comes up): nothing blurry, geometry all right, just the fine CRT feel (I also like it for that it has a very nice and stable interlace mode).
The colour is not lost permanently: when turning the monitor on, it appears dead, and stays so for a long while (even for a half hour or more), then suddenly it comes up, and from that it works. Patting or gently hitting the monitor does not affect this, neither it is a cable problem: it is certainly a problem within the monitor (the OSD also has blue lost).
Is it reasonably possible to fix it (soldering, replacing some component on a PCB), or it is done for? The monitor is about 20 years old and was in continuous use (I would say to this 20 years it would average 2-3 hours a day of operation).
(I didn't poke in CRT displays before, but have experience with soldering and such, but I might also be willing to pay for someone knowledgeable on this field to fix it once I know it is reasonably possible)
I have an old Eizo Flex Scan F553-M CRT monitor which some months before started losing it's blue component. I like this piece of hardware, so if possible, would like to keep it in operation: it still has a very nice picture (when the blue finally comes up): nothing blurry, geometry all right, just the fine CRT feel (I also like it for that it has a very nice and stable interlace mode).
The colour is not lost permanently: when turning the monitor on, it appears dead, and stays so for a long while (even for a half hour or more), then suddenly it comes up, and from that it works. Patting or gently hitting the monitor does not affect this, neither it is a cable problem: it is certainly a problem within the monitor (the OSD also has blue lost).
Is it reasonably possible to fix it (soldering, replacing some component on a PCB), or it is done for? The monitor is about 20 years old and was in continuous use (I would say to this 20 years it would average 2-3 hours a day of operation).
(I didn't poke in CRT displays before, but have experience with soldering and such, but I might also be willing to pay for someone knowledgeable on this field to fix it once I know it is reasonably possible)
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