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- Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:10 pm
- Forum: Star Wars Episode One
- Topic: Trouble-shooting the main opto switch
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15634
Re: Trouble-shooting the main opto switch
Like he said, if you look at the opto through the LCD on a video camera or digital still, it will show you the light. Pretty much everyone has one of those now.
- Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:53 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: My monitor just packed up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23451
Re: My monitor just packed up
Do you have a tube rejuvinator? Longshot with an open heater but it could work...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:30 pm
- Forum: Developer Updates
- Topic: Update 01.15.09
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5936
Re: Update 01.15.09
No crap on the snow. My wife bought me a kickass cabinet meat smoker for Xmas... but every time I get the chance to bust it out it's either 0 or we get 8" of snow that day.
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:59 pm
- Forum: Requests
- Topic: Requests following the Expo audio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12850
Re: Requests following the Expo audio
Entirely depends on price for me. In order of preference, though, absent any prices, I'd go #2 or #1. Can't say I would do #3 unless the price made it irresistable.
- Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:14 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: Machine crashed twice/ Coil Buzz
- Replies: 19
- Views: 39837
Re: Machine crashed twice/ Coil Buzz
Does buzz here mean a physical rattle or an electrical buzz?
- Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:54 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: High Scores.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 26383
Re: High Scores.
Nobody in my house has made it onto the default high scores list yet, including me. :| I have a couple of switches that need replacing that control stuff like missle accumulation and I have to tweak the arm on one of the bonus rollover switches so it won't stop bonus accumulation anymore. I think wh...
- Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:52 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: My monitor just packed up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23451
Re: My monitor just packed up
Let us know how it goes. CRT monitors are pretty simple once you've done a bunch of them.
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:05 pm
- Forum: Developer Updates
- Topic: Update 01.01.09
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4021
Re: 01.01.09
w00t!
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:00 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: My monitor just packed up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23451
Re: My monitor just packed up
How exactly did you determine that? Most of the time you're not going to see a spark or hear a pop. It discharges without visible results.woodlouse wrote:There was no discharge from the tube connector when I shorted it to the chassis.
- Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:27 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: My monitor just packed up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23451
Re: My monitor just packed up
With that desc it could have been anything but my money is on the flyback transformer.
Have you moved the game recently?
Have you moved the game recently?
- Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:24 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: Help needed
- Replies: 29
- Views: 51151
Re: Help needed
Sounds to me like a cracked solder joint somewhere in that logic circuit. With all else failing I'd pull the driver board and reflow all solder joints in the circuit for those mechs. Start with the connector header on the driver board and go all the way backwards.
- Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Fantastic upgrade of images with video amp
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22457
Re: Fantastic upgrade of images with video amp
Cap kits are a tough problem. I have done 1979 monitors (29 years old) with a standard cap kit (ie 75% of the caps) and perfection resulted. I also had a 1971 monitor (Computer Space) that had a cap can which was a PCB in a can that had a group of caps in it. That took every single cap. Start simpl...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: POLL: Pay for a video converter or replace monitor?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 64440
Re: POLL: Pay for a video converter or replace monitor?
I disagree that LCD is a better tech. It's a more convenient tech. It is impossible to repair, has an inferior picture, and has no data to prove it is anywhere near as reliable long term. Note that isn't an argument against using them - I just dispute the assertion that because it is newer it is inh...
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:16 pm
- Forum: Revenge From Mars
- Topic: ablaze leds wooohoooo
- Replies: 10
- Views: 22906
Re: ablaze leds wooohoooo
OCD? I don't really like fish, but maybe later, when my dyslexia isn't flaring up.yetterben wrote:it only bothers people with ocd
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Fantastic upgrade of images with video amp
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22457
Re: Fantastic upgrade of images with video amp
I have repaired a lot of monitors. When in doubt replace them all. Cap kits are meant for monitors inside of 7-8 years, IMO. Once you get past that point every cap in the chassis is suspect.