OT: My NEC monitor seems to be getting darker. Brightness controls are maxed out...
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OT: My NEC monitor seems to be getting darker. Brightness controls are maxed out...
Is there anything else I can do, or is the monitor just dying?
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Which model, and how old?
The phosphors in any display age from day 1; using the energy saver features helps; screen savers don't.
Expect about two years of use from a top-tier display before noticeable degradation of the display brightness.
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy way around this. Maonitors wear out; the push to create bigger, brighter monitors means that e-gun voltages are increased and that phosphor wear increases accordingly.
I ahve to re-profile my three-year old Trinitron diplay twice a month to maintain reasonable color consistency due to phosphor aging.
Expect about two years of use from a top-tier display before noticeable degradation of the display brightness.
Unfortunately, there isn't an easy way around this. Maonitors wear out; the push to create bigger, brighter monitors means that e-gun voltages are increased and that phosphor wear increases accordingly.
I ahve to re-profile my three-year old Trinitron diplay twice a month to maintain reasonable color consistency due to phosphor aging.
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how old is it? It may be just dying. You *could* try to adjust the brightness on the *inside*...
a lot of monitors have another brightness limiting pot on the inside.
If your monitor has all the controls on "soft" buttons on the front panel, not real "pots", you may be hosed though.
It sounds like this is a typical 'high voltage' problem, that is, that section of the electronics starts going bad.
If your monitor has all the controls on "soft" buttons on the front panel, not real "pots", you may be hosed though.
It sounds like this is a typical 'high voltage' problem, that is, that section of the electronics starts going bad.
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