New Visual - Luminglas

Greetings!

How about a visual of a luminglas? This is the name of the plasma / lightning disk usually seen in sci-fi movies for effect. Its biggest claim to fame is in the Star Trek series in the Borg regeneration stations - the circle of lightning above the head of the borg. It could be made to move in time with the audio stream.



Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

That does look cool

Cheers,
Hans


Mk2 - Blue - 080000431

We could even recreate the burned out phosphor that you always get in the middle of the thing!

Rob

Greetings!

An interesting point - do the VFDs on the empeg suffer from burn-in over time? One of the screens I keep up most of the time is the track info screen. Some of the items there are always in the same spot. Have you ever had any burn-in problems? Does that really apply to VFDs?

As to the luminglas, I have one home and at work, but I have never gotten any burn-in. Granted, the way they fill it tends to leave a small gap near the center...

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

do the VFDs on the empeg suffer from burn-in over time? One of the screens I keep up most of the time is the track info screen. Some of the items there are always in the same spot. Have you ever had any burn-in problems? Does that really apply to VFDs?

Yes. I have some dark spots on my Mk1 where the Time display sits on the "Now and Next" screen. It only took about a month of leaving that screen up (100% of the time for approx 8 hours a day, 5 days a week) before the burn became noticeable.

However, it is not very noticeable. It's quite faint, and you can't see it unless you've got a "flat-color" visual running like Caledonian. Also, it's not like phosphor burn on a CRT where you can see the burn when the unit's off. On the VFD, you can't see anything's wrong with the display when it's turned off. It's just that some of the pixels are dimmer than others now.

And to tell you the truth, there's some variation in my display anyway, in the form of horizontal lines running across the display. Here is a post that illustrates the variation in my display. The burned-in pixels are no worse than the variation in the pixel brightness of the horizontal lines. So since the display already has some variation, the burn-in is not a big deal.

Still, I keep asking for the static text screens to move the time and other static elements around so that they don't stay in the same place all the time. Since discovering that "Now and Next" burned my screen, I no longer leave it up in that mode any more. Too bad, because it was my favorite screen mode...

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Tony Fabris

Greetings!

Thanks for the tip! I think I will rotate my displays a little more often now. Still, from the GIF you showed, it wouldn't be too bad, but best avoided.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

Rotate displays ?

Elucidate

Cheers,
Hans


Mk2 - Blue - 080000431

Greetings!

Nothing that interesting. Just use different displays at different times.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

OOOOOOOOOHHHHH ! I get it now. when I read that I pictured you with a soldering gun and a screwdriver rotating the empegs display with another one from a big pile you had ...

DOH

Cheers,
Hans


Mk2 - Blue - 080000431

Greetings!

I wish!!! Still, it would make a nice visual.

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)