Adder Technology 1000 User Manual

1  Display a skew pattern on the appropriate computer. You can either use the 

supplied skew pattern or create your own:

i  Insert the supplied Adder Installation CD-ROM into the CD player of the 

computer.

ii  Within Windows, use the My Computer 

option (usually available as a desktop icon 
or within the Start menu) to view the 
contents of the CD-ROM. Double-click 
the 

Skew entry to display the standard 

test pattern. If necessary, maximise the 
application window so that the image fills 
the screen.     

  The screen will show a series of fine red, 

green and blue crosses which should all be 
in line, vertically and horizontally. Skew affects the horizontal placement of 
the colours and using this pattern it is much easier to discover which, if any, 
colours are being adversely affected by the cable link.  

i  Run any image creation/editing application, such as the Paint program 

supplied with Windows.

ii  Using the image application create three 

stacked horizontal rectangles (one red, 
one green and one blue) that fill the 
width of the screen.

iii  Draw a vertical black line down across 

the coloured bars and then repeat this 
vertical line at intervals along the width 
of the coloured bars. These lines create 
breaks across the colours and give you 
more opportunities to view the horizontal 
position of each colour relative to the others. 

2  On the remote user keyboard (connected to an Adder X100AS/R or  

X200AS/R extender), simultaneously, press the hotkeys (by default, 

 and 

) along with 

 to enter configuration 

mode.
The three keyboard indicators (‘Num Lock’, 
‘Caps Lock’ and ‘Scroll Lock’) will now begin 
to flash in sequence.  

3  As appropriate, press either the R, G or B keyboard keys to 

select the appropriate colour channel. Corresponding 
keyboard indicators will flash rapidly to show which 
channel is currently selected for adjustment: 
Num Lock for Red, Caps Lock for Green and 
Scroll Lock for Blue.

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Caps

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Scroll

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4  Press the   and   keys to retard or advance the timing of the selected 

colour channel respectively. On screen you will see a change in the position 
of the selected colour crosses (or colour bars) in relation to the other two. 

5  When the selected colour crosses (or colour bars) are correctly positioned, 

press 

 to exit that colour channel. The keyboard indicators will return to 

flashing in sequence.

6  If required, repeat steps 3 to 5 to select and adjust any colour channel until 

the vertical lines of the red, green and blue crosses are all aligned.

7  When all colours are correctly aligned on all video channels, press 

 to exit 

configuration mode and permanently save all settings.
Note: Once you have made the skew adjustments, it may be necessary to 
re-adjust the image controls to attain optimum screen images.