Are you near any Electrical Pylons by any chance, a client of mine use to work from home and had a pylon at the end of his road
which caused a flicker on his monitor, apparently he cured this by changing to a TFT. I personally would have moved home straight away......
Also if I have an Elinchrom head very near the monitor in t he studio, it sometimes causes a flicker, must be the fan or something?
If your suffering poor electrical supply, this may cause serious damage to power packs and computers, I would even question the safety of yourself and visitors to the studio.........
Kind regards Steve VC
On 3 Apr 2004, at 13:02, Nick Wilcox-Brown wrote:
Hi List,
I have just taken on a new studio and with it my CRT monitor has taken
on a nasty vertical flicker. This has been imroved by setting refresh at
100 Hz (OK for this card / monitor) and turning off the strip lights
also improves things(!), but it is still not quite right and long term
usage is not going to be possible.
I should add that this is power related. The monitor is fine at home and
the previous tenant had a similar problem. On her machine this flicker
manifested itseld as the whole image moving up and down by approx 1mm at
a frequency of 40 - 60hz. On my machine it is much more subtle (@100hz
refresh), but makes reading text impossible
My question: Is a UPS the answer or is there a cheaper method? I do not really fancy laying out for 3 UPS @ UK 150 each. Ideally the landlord should supply a clean supply, but how does one achieve that?
Thanks for any thoughts,
Nick.
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