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Offline Plaz

Re: What is the best Amiga moniter
« on: August 15, 2012, 12:07:06 AM »
Mitsubishi 1431 multisync (Or one of many other Mitsubishis). The Commodore monitors were junk. Well ok... the old style 1084's were decent (the rest bad). I made a fair gain repairing all models over 10 years time.  Still have my trusty Mitsubishi 22 years later.
 

Offline Plaz

Re: What is the best Amiga moniter
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2012, 03:19:04 PM »
Quote from: Terse;703549
The Commodore 1960


The 1950 and 1960 were two of the poorest made monitors I'd ever meet in my repair career. They did handle all the Amiga modes, but what good is that if it's dead. The quality of all components including the flyback transformer were so poor that even after one was repaired it would not last long. IMHO, "shotgunning" the mother board and replacing most of the hundreds of components with higher quality stuff would make these monitors useful.

Not worth your money or trouble buying one unless you just want it for the collectors value. Trying to use one as a daily monitor will just bring you heart break one day. Can't recall total how many I eventually worked on, but there are maybe half a dozen out there in the wild that I repaired by upgrading several components including the flybacks. They *might* still be running. BTW the later model 1084S was almost as bad as the 19xx's (not the earlier 1084S, it was ok)

Plaz