Re: Help with Compaq P1220/Mitsubishi 2060u

Ok, that's a relief although I'm still going to look for a better quality iron. I know most of the parts in that monitor are rated at 200+ V so I figured most things would be safe but I read electrolytic caps are polarized and don't like voltage coming from the wrong side so I thought some of them might have been damaged.

Also, I should clarify that the second monitor still had the same geometry problems as the first except for the vertical linearity which wasn't that bad on the second. I was also much more careful disassembling...

Re: Help with Compaq P1220/Mitsubishi 2060u

Well, I dug my other one out of the garage and did some unnecessary part swapping (turns out that ones problem was a bad power supply but I didn't think to look for that) and it has exactly the same problem. Now I think my cheapo soldering iron may have damaged something. I measured the tip and there was ac voltage present, somewhere between 20-40v. At least that's according to my 2 DMMs, my analog meter shows at most 1v.

Re: Help with Compaq P1220/Mitsubishi 2060u



But it didn't use to be this way. Could the coil have been damaged when the monitor blew out? As for the other parts I replaced, a lot of the info I came across was on russian sites translated with google so who knows. I have the service manual but most of it is way over my head. I mainly used it as a parts list to make sure I was getting the right parts.



I didn't want to start messing with the physical controls so I used the service menu to make some adjustments. It didn't make much difference,...

I don't know if anyone here knows anything about old CRTs but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. My Compaq P1220 blew its HOT which I replaced along with a few other parts that I thought might be bad (all horizontal related). Now the monitor works but the vertical linearity and balance are really messed up. The OSD can correct for most of the problem but there's still a droop or slant towards the right side of the screen. Screen rotation controls don't seem to help much. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Edit: I don't know if this is related or not but the convergence in the...