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[scooter.125]

Hi Folks

New to this forum so a big hello to everyone from Northern Ireland.

PS it's raining LOL.

Anyway I ordered a HDFury3 with a Gamma-X boost and all the extra cabling that comes with the advanced kit last Friday arrived on Wednesday; excellent postal distribution faster than sending something of the same size to the south of England .

Today I set up the fury3 and got a green picture, my Panasonic TH-42PWD6 allows component and RGB inputs so I set the display to component and got a proper coloured picture. changed the settings in my SKY+ HD box from scart input set to 720P output and sweet so far.

I then plugged in the Gamma-X to the fury3 and lost the picture the blue light was on but I thought I may need to give it some more juice and plugged in the power supply - no picture - moved switch from PAS to INV - no picture.

Unplugged the Gamma-X picture restored.

Went onto PC and read the fury3 manual and some info on Gamma-X, Gamma-X won't work on component input ah ha I thought .

Changed dip switch 1 from default component to RGB reset plasma to RGB picture is fine and good so I thought happy days and re-plugged the Gamma-X into fury3 - no picture, added the power supply - no picture moved switch from PAS to INV - no picture, removed Gamma-X picture restored.

Anybody any ideas what's happening?

Fury3 dip switch sequence as follows

1 On - 2 On - 3 On - 4 On - 5 Off - 6 On - 7 On - 8 On

I think I have added the Adobe doc on my plasma fingers crossed.

Cheers and many thanks for your help and time

Stewarty

[damien55]

First of all welcome to the forum.

Just a thought,

Did you plug the gamma X the right way round? I know it sounds stupid but with HDfury 3 it is a easy mistake to do.

On HDfury 1 and 2 the output was a male VGA and that was a bit rubbish to plus into a standard VGA cable but great to connect directly to the back of an old plasma or to the GammaX because they use a VGA female connection.
So before you could just plug a GammaX directly on top of an HDFURY 1 or 2.
With HDfury 3 they decided to use a female VGA connector instead, so to connect the GammaX you need to change the gender using a cable or gender changer.

So basically make sure that you connect your HDfury3 to the input of the gammaX which is where the Blue LED is (the stupidly bright LED ) and the output is where the X-vue sticker is.


If you have done that properly did you try using two power supplies? One for the HDfury and one for the GammaX

Regards

Damien

[damien55]

Oh and I forgot, It's sunny in England (Midlands)... But I'm at work

[AnalogRocks]

Hi Scooter,
use the white VGA to VGA cable to connect the HDFury3 to the GammaX. The input end of the GammaX is the fat end.

[AnalogRocks]

Hi Scooter,
use the white VGA to VGA cable to connect the HDFury3 to the GammaX. The input end of the GammaX is the fat end.

[scooter.125]

Hi Folks

Thanks for the advice Damien55 and Analogrocks.

Yes it looks like I had it the wrong way round and the fact after you replied Damien55 I checked the body of the Gamma-X and sure enough it says INPUT on the correct side to connect DOH!!!

However I may not be as daft as Homer because it has thrown up another small issue to which Analogrocks points toward being that the Fury3 has a female VGA end and the Gamma-X has both male and female hence my mistake to try and connect in series; now Analogrocks is correct in that I should use the double ended male connector cable supplied to connect Fury3 to Gamma-X INPUT side however there is no female-female connect to allow the male end of the Gamma-X to connect to my male VGA cable from the plasma should I have been supplied with that cable do you guys know?

I really don't want to connect the Gamma-X to the plasma direct and then use my VGA into that as it will sit out like a sore truncheon from beneath the outer of the screen especially after spending time and money hiding my cables to the plasma

I would rather have the Gamma-X in series behind the TV unit or is that a no-no

Cheers and thanks for any more help

[AnalogRocks]

[AnalogRocks]