[fujifrontier]

ok.

So, my tuner subber came in the mail. Hooked it up, and aside from some moderate dot crawl, bad colour, and misconvergence, the thing worked and showed a picture which looked A-OK from across the room but terrible sitting about a couple feet away. It had that... I don't know what to call it, but you can see the coloured lines atop the "good"pics. I was going to connect the LD player and use the A Studio Standard disc to do convergence adjustment, but got called away... I didn't want the set to burn the place down so I shut it off and came back about 45mins to an hour later. (MAC/MAC4.jpg)

Fired it up again when I got home and it started being a hateful bastard. (Rest of the pics.) To get it to show a picture I had to leave the 40mhz cable just barely hanging on to the tuner subber, all the way in and it would make a high pitched sound and the picture would act as if it were being fed a super strong signal (even with gain control at probably 5-10%).

The convergence pattern was bleedy and shaky, like a high frequency jello shaking; when a blocky checkerboard was on the screen it did a "flag" moving and shaking on the right side.

I don't know what could have changed in 45mins-1hr!

I can tell that it would have an absolutely GLORIOUS picture if it would behave, so I'm not keen to getting rid of it, but.... SIGH. With the tuner out of the loop I know that it's something else now that's either changing values or just too old to hold its water. Probably a recap?? Also... anyone familiar with the convergence procedure, LOL?