[QuadList] Sony PVM-14L4 - RGB Appearing as GBR and Purity Problem with this HR Trinitron Monitor

[Steve Burgess]

Here’s one that’s had me scratching my head today...

Just bought this monitor for the too-good-to-be-true price of 69GBP (inc delivery).  Two problems – the colours are “rotated” so that RGB is actually appearing as GBR and there’s what looks like a purity problem towards the right of screen (degauss operates, but doesn’t cure the problem).  Pic attached.

I’ve had the lid off and it’s not like someone could have wrongly plugged RGB to the CRT base board (for example).  The OSD menu is affected so the wrong colours problem has to be in the RGB domain.

No problem with rejecting, getting a refund, etc – but has anyone come across a similar problem with these monitors?  Very weird fault.  (But not once you understand it, of course!)  Current thinking is that it must be a duff CRT.
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