{"id":54,"date":"2007-01-02T21:52:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowtek.ca\/ampro\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-01-02T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:53:25","slug":"another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Another Year.."},"content":{"rendered":"

And my Ampro continues to keep working just fine. Back in November I finally finished painting it black, and considering it was a quick job with a paintbrush – it turned out pretty nice. Up close in detail, you can tell it isn’t an ‘original’ finish – but from the seating position in the normal dim light (or no light) of my theater, it looks really sharp.<\/p>\n

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There still hasn’t been a re-occurrence of the “burning component” smell, or the accompanying loss of image – but I did have some major convergence woes lately (but those too have stabilized).<\/p>\n

If I had to make some guesses – I suspect that my HVPS is getting a bit sicker (the CRT is coming up on 15 years old!) and this shows itself in some focus drift I get. The registration (convergence) board is probably also starting to get cranky – and I’ll take some of the blame for this as my Ampro probably runs a bit hotter than some as I did modify the fans, it is also ceiling mounted in a not terribly well ventilated space – so with lots of people in the room it does get warm in there.<\/p>\n

There are now some pretty reasonable (but far from perfect) 1280×720 LCDs out there – I expect within a year or two I’ll be moving on. However, I still really love the image that the CRT puts out, and get a real kick out of the tinkering part of this hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And my Ampro continues to keep working just fine. Back in November I finally finished painting it black, and considering it was a quick job with a paintbrush – it turned out pretty nice. Up close in detail, you can tell it isn’t an ‘original’ finish – but from the seating position in the normal … Continue reading “Another Year..”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ampro-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/ampro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}