On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 22:07 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 17:19, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 20:39 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 09:15 -0800, alan wrote:
>>>> There is a modeline generation utility, but I cannot remember the
>>>> name of it. (My brain is still booting this morning.)
>>> xvidtune?
>> Be careful as hell with xvidtune. It'll do whatever you merrily tell it
>> to do. I blew the flyback out of a beautiful multisync back when a 15"
>> model cost some large. I drove it just a teeny tiny itsy bitsy too much.
>> ZING! <puff of smoke> That was a CRT monitor, BTW. I destroyed it
>> dinking with it and xvidtune, cause I didn't know exactly what I was
>> doing. That was one sad day. Ric
>
> Your list resident C.E.T. speaks:
>
> You didn't drive it too hard Ric, you drove it too slow, specifically the
> horizontal rate. The design of an h-sweep circuit is a rather large
> balancing act, with the inductance of the sweep transformer often at the
> ragged edge of a saturated core when running at the usual lower end of a
> vga monitors range of 31 kilohertz.
<snip> This was so good I saved it
twice! Thanks for the education, Ric
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