Recent content by SammyArcade

OK, you've convinced me. I'll let well enough alone. The DL is fine and doesn't need any love at this point. At some point toward the end of my project list, I should likely recap it just due to age. But there are other projects more in need of love. Specifically, I have a few other...

Yep, I will definitely be paying you a visit to get the bad chassis going again. :) However, the DL actually is a G07. (I didn't realize that before since I thought that all DLs were WG monitors. But when I looked at mine this evening, I realized that it was a G07.) So just for fun, I was...

Thanks! I'm not sure if I connected to the correct spot exactly on the TV since the more obvious band was insulated. However, I found an uninsulated wire that ran up the side of the tube and shorted to that. There was no discharge flash, but I suspect that TV had been off long enough that it...

The board seems to have cleaned up nicely. Thanks for the tips. As for the TV, I want to make sure that I discharge the tube before I do anything else. However I don't see anything metal in there to discharge against like the frame in the arcade monitor. Is there some standard way to...

A few quick questions: 1) You mention cleaning the board with "simple green". Do you mean the normal, household cleaner? If so, should I just spray it on and then wipe if off? Should I rinse it with water? I'm thinking that it will leave a residue if I don't, no? (My wife has the Costco...

Attached are pictures of the two labels that I found on the tube. I believe that the number you want is A48KRD89X. Is that good or bad? Thanks, Sam

Thanks, I'll get things together here and then we can find a mutually agreeable time. In the meantime, where can I find the "tube number"? There are a few stickers in there, but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. As for "yoke readings" is that another stickers value or something more complex...

I gladly and gratefully accept your offer and will certainly provide lunch. :) As for your question above, I have not yet done anything beyond pulling the board and scanning it for obvious issues. The fuses are both good, and I see nothing obviously burned or defective. For fun, I've checked...

I now have the board out and ready for some excitement. Oddly, from the best that I can tell, I didn't find anything charged on the board either. (Remember that I got no discharge from the CRT.) Sadly both fuses seem to be good, so I'm stuck with a more complex issue, I guess. A visual...

Thanks for the excellent video! This is just what I needed. I've disconnected everything, but I have not slid the chassis out yet. Once I do that I'll be able to find what failed. (Seems like the odds are on that one fuse.)

Due to the holiday weekend, I just now got around to unclipping that connection from the monitor tube. I was expecting some sort of fireworks based on all that I've heard, but I didn't even get a spark or a pop. I spent quite some time playing with it thinking that I wasn't doing it properly...

My plan is to use the "screwdriver with a wire clipped to the chassis" trick that I've seen on videos. I hope that is good enough as I'm fresh out of fancy monitor tools. As for the caps, can't I just short them across their own leads with a screwdriver blade? Or isn't that a good strategy...

Oh, and one more question for you experts: Aside from using an insulated screw driver and wire to discharge the tube (in the Ms. Pac monitor) to the chassis, to avoid shock from the capacitors can I just short them on the bottom of the board using a screwdriver blade across both connections? Or...

So basically I should pick up any non-Trinitron TV in the 19" range that I find. If I can't use it, someone else can. Does that sound about right? (BTW, if my wife reads this post, she may well collapse with a heart attack... or go postal... it is hard to guess which... hehehe.)

Thanks for the info! So is it fair to say that 1980s era TVs are the most likely to be useful? Or is that too general? It would be useful to have at least some general guidelines because in addition to trash TVs, people are often getting rid of them at yard sales and flea markets. However...