Try first adjust focus yoke and magnets, adjustments are descripted in pages 13 and 14 here .
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Calling all Barco Gurus!
Folks,
I've acquired a BD808s and last night balanced it on a couple of pallets to see if it was working / how good it was, etc..
It all works fine except (there had to be a except, didn't there!)
It's reading just over 2000 hrs runtime and appears to have minty tubes but the focus is sooooo soft that even the cat want's to sit in it!
I managed to get a nearly sharp picture by cranking the EM focus midpoint setting to 100% but it's still soft.
Do I need to twiddle a pot or three inside somewhere?
Other than soft, it's a great picture, nothing to complain about.
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I've acquired a BD808s and last night balanced it on a couple of pallets to see if it was working / how good it was, etc..
It all works fine except (there had to be a except, didn't there!)
It's reading just over 2000 hrs runtime and appears to have minty tubes but the focus is sooooo soft that even the cat want's to sit in it!
I managed to get a nearly sharp picture by cranking the EM focus midpoint setting to 100% but it's still soft.
Do I need to twiddle a pot or three inside somewhere?
Other than soft, it's a great picture, nothing to complain about.
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Yup, it looks soft when looking into each lens. I set to midpoint to remove any legacy settings. Data 808s doesn't have scheimplfluge I thought.
I suspect these may be new tubes as they really are 100%. Perhaps they were replaced recently and the tech didn't spend much time doing it? Who knows
Anyway, over the weekend I'll try the mechanical tweak of the neck hardware.
I must say, I'm not looking forward to sticking my hands into thousands of volts - got any suggestions which are the hot bits to avoid?
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I suspect these may be new tubes as they really are 100%. Perhaps they were replaced recently and the tech didn't spend much time doing it? Who knows
Anyway, over the weekend I'll try the mechanical tweak of the neck hardware.
I must say, I'm not looking forward to sticking my hands into thousands of volts - got any suggestions which are the hot bits to avoid?
The yokes have about 40 volts going through them. NO risk of shock from them.
Heck, how do you think I get my brain started every morning? Stick both hands on the end of a Marquee HVPS and fire the set up!
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Heck, how do you think I get my brain started every morning? Stick both hands on the end of a Marquee HVPS and fire the set up!
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