Recent content by davepl

Weird Tempest/6100 monitor issue - FAT instead of BRIGHT I've got one Tempest chassis (WG6100) that you can either have very dim or very blurry. But: - Instead of getting BRIGHTER, more intense draws just get FATTER. You can see this on the self-test screen - Happens with any tube and any...

Thanks for the input! With nothing better to try at the time, I swapped entire control panels side to side, and now BOTH work perfectly. I'd think that pretty much must mean there was a bad connection I 'fixed' by doing so. Unless it's something magic about the specific wiring of the cocktail...

I have a Tempest cocktail and a Tempest upright. The upright works fine, but the cocktail has an issue with the spinners going left (counter clockwise). And it's been getting progressively worse over time. At first I believed it was only on the Player 1 side; I replaced the optic board and it...

Any thoughts on where to look? I'm wondering if, since everything is still deflecting, if that would narrow it down to the high voltage power supply?

I recently had my monitor rebuilt, and it seemed OK at first, but now will randomly fail (go blank). It normally powers up fine when cold, and then when it goes blank, usually a power reset will fix it for a while, though it often takes several tries. It plays blind during this period, and you...

Short version: My monitor died and the high voltage box emitted some smoke. It blew a slow-blow fuse on the deflection board. After installing a Zanen cap kit, I now have a picture, but its super-blurry and compressed to 1/3 of the screen just below the middle. Longer version: I installed...