[Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A monitor output & more....

[Andrew Welburn]

Yup, I didn't want to modify the card itself, I wanted to keep it original :) 

I've had the inversion built into my testrig for years, but I might modify the card itself in the coming months.

Don't forget that it took me five years to find a videocard that someone was willing to sell, and it cost a pretty penny when I got it, I didn't want to mess anything up, the off-card modification was fine for me. Subsequently I have indeed gone much further in modifying my setup, but I've not needed to do any mods for some time. Now I have a few in my house that need work, I'll be doing a bunch more mods and documenting it like the existing stuff on my page.

You see, I have a 9100FT on loan from someone, so i'll be able to document that and it's mods too. 

I vowed that I wouldn't spend any more time programming until I had an FT.

Which reminds me, if anyone has a 9100FT for sale, I'm still in need of one...


Andrew Welburn (mobile)
www.andys-arcade.com

On 10 Nov 2012, at 00:26, Andre Huijts <a.huijts at upcmail.nl> wrote:


> Yep...reading, doing, reading, doing....that's the best training method anyway :)

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> @Andy: I'm surprised you didn't just bridge pins 13 to 7 and 15 to 5 on U27 on the video card.

> If you check the schematics you can see that the syncs are actually negative but inverted by U27 just before it goes to the connector.

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> Don't come with excuses about keeping things original....seeing your fan-hack ;) ;) ;) 

> I'll do that for sure too, the noise is terrible ! 

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> Op 9 nov. 2012, om 23:39 heeft Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk> het volgende geschreven:

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>> Yeah, I’m absolutely not saying don’t ask the questions!! Please do! That is indeed what a mailing list is all about. I’m just saying that with these things more than anything I’ve ever come across the manuals are really useful rather than something that we all just have a tendency to skip.

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>> BUT sure, it’s not a lot of fun to just read through them unless you’ve got something you can try the bits and pieces out on at the same time - so get onto the monitor situation ��

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>> From: Andre Huijts

>> Sent: ‎09‎ ‎November‎ ‎2012 ‎22‎:‎33

>> To: Technical Tools Mail List

>> Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100A monitor output &amp; more....

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>> I meant....a mailing list...

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>> Don't judge me too quickly. 

>> I have already started reading the manuals from the day I got the stuff andwhenever I have some time (gotta love an iPad for that). In fact, one of the things that annoys me the most in my work is colleagues or contractors not reading a simple manual before starting to work on new things. And it's not just the young guys, the older one's are sometimes even worse because they think to know it all.....

>> They loose hours trying to solve the problem while they could have prevented that by investing 15 minutes in reading a simple manual.

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>> Well, everyone had to start at one moment. I know that I have a pretty good understandings of how (80's) computer hardware works. I don't understand every detail in the manuals yet but that will come when necessary and in time. Rome wasn't built in a day either, and seeing that the 35,000 USD 9100 set came with a 9 day training says enough...

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>> Let me do my baby-steps and it doesn't harm to help someone eve