Re: StreamViewMonitor

Matthias Haury (mhaury@pasteur.fr)
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:52:21 +0100

Maybe your Stroboscope LED's are gone down in intensity (or one of the
three ?) ??? The intensity of those is very important for a "reasonable
contrast", but I agree on the S/N, I was quite dissappointed getting the
Monitor on a FACStar Plus just last month :( !!! For all the money the
picture should be better !

Have fun,

Matthias

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At 7:39 -0500 7/03/97, Pizzo,Eugene wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>About two years ago we acquired a used FACSTAR Plus.
>It came equipped with a stream viewing video monitor.
>I was relatively new to the field at that time and in any case
>had never worked with this particular instrument before.
>The resolution of the stream against background seemed
>poor from the start. Recently the monitor lost all resolution
>of the stream. I can barely make it out and its worthless from
>a practical standpoint. I had only changed the nozzle recently
>so I tried adjusting the mirror and strobe light but to no effect.
>The machine is ten years old - is the monitor simply on its
>last legs? - the background is very greyish and the contrast
>adjust doesn't help either. Luckily I reinstalled the microscope
>and that works OK. Any thoughts?
>
>Gene Pizzo/UCONN Health


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