RE: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video

One quick question that no one has seemed to answered in any conversation I 
started.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v472/SirPoonga/asteroids/?action=view&current=monitorback.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/SirPoonga/asteroids/chassis.jpg

Do I need to have that circuit all connected when discharging?  Obviously 
the power cord, but the cord from that circuit to the HV circuit, case 
transistors,  etc...



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Sir Poonga" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:31:49 -0500

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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