Re: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video

Dude, I'll give you an empty Asteroids cabinet if you will just remove the
innards from that abomination.  What is that, a Bump n' Jump or Journey
conversion?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sir Poonga" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video


> Hello all.  I've been researching this over the last several weeks, I
> finally found this place :)  I picked up an asteroids game for free :)
Just
> no video, everything else seems to work.
>
> It's a WG 19V2000 monitor.
> The problem is the F100 fuse blows right away when the monitor is powered
> up.
>
> I've been asking around and apparently this is a common problem with the
> 19V2000?  And that I'd need a rebuild kit.  Looks up prices, bought the
kit
> and a new big blue form Bob Roberts.    Even if this doesn't fix the
problem
> it is for the good :)  I also hear it might be a bad HV diode??
>
> Either way this requires dicharging the monitor which is something I don't
> want to do on my own.  So I am thinking about calling a local tv repair
> place.  Good idea?
> What type of things should I ask?  I know that the monitor needs to be
> discharged slowly as to not blow the HV diode.  A TV repair person would
> have a good discharging tool, right?
> Do you need to discharge with the chassis pcb still plugged into  the HV
> circuit and such?
> I hope the TV repair person would put in the 4 caps of the rebuild kit
that
> go on the HV circuit.  I would feel safer for myself then.  I can handle
the
> rest.
>
> All I have done so far is take the monitor out of the cabinet and test to
> make sure the voltages going to the monitor are within tolerances.  So far
> everything checks out.
>
> The other possibility is could something be wrong with the game PCB to
cause
> this problem?
>
> Pics
> http://photobucket.com/albums/v472/SirPoonga/asteroids/
>
> Ultimately if I get this going I might try and find a robotron cocktail
> cabinet or make one.  I'd rather have a cocktail table as that is less
> intrusive in an apartment.  And since I don't have an original cabinet
> anyway I wouldn't feel bad about getting rid of it.
>
>
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