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ive opened up m monitor  and i noticed 8 pots on the side of the board and after fiddling around with them i discovered that the controlled  warmth, rgb 2 other color tuners ( i cant tell what they tune but when i twist 'em the colors change, brightness and h scale. so my question is, could i rig a circuit to the pots so i could get a blue only switch and a greyscale picture?

Why not just get a DPST switch that you could wire to cut the Green and Red signals into your monitor? Or, is it not RGB?

those things cost money, im broke.

If you already have soldering equipment (an assumption I made when you mentioned rigging a circuit), then a DPST switch should only cost a few dollars. I know a DPDT switch costs ~$5 at Radio Shack, so it isn't too much. Then again, I've been in such a situation when I had to decide between eating and getting a part. One of the few things I enjoy more than gaming is eating, but I don't need to eat...

OH dpd-T ahhh.....
can i combine all of the rgb signals and get a B&W image? blue only is a synch but i  dont know much about how rgb does its thing, and if the ssignals are all sync -ed but i guess it cant hurt TOO much to try, at least not as much as the 1 foot tall and 6 inch wide capacitor im going to build >

Well, you could use a DPDT and just leave the secondary position terminals unconnected. I misunderstood; I thought you wanted a blue-color only picture. I'm not sure how to get a B&W picture from RGB. If I'm not too off-target, using a luma signal alone from S-video is B&W only. But from RGB, I've no clue.

Quotecan i combine all of the rgb signals and get a B&W image?

Yes, you can do that.  It's easy if you use a 3pdt switch.

No joke? That's what I call deceptively simple...  :ph34r: