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Its working great. Its only showing like 6000 plays. So I bet not much has been done with it.
Considering it's common failures seen over and over that the main two killers of these are heat and the low voltage section I say spend the $30~ on a LV6100 - LV2000. I also say get a fan on your flyback. Since you're ripping the monitor apart then do they right thing and cap kit it as well.
Its working great. Its only showing like 6000 plays. So I bet not much has been done with it.
Aha! I was right!
This is a misnomer because the flyback transformer exists only in raster monitors' deflection circuits. Part of a flyback's duty is to regulate the currents necessary to make the electron beam "fly back" to the left (or top) during retraces. In vector monitors, the high voltage transformer is a "flyback" transformer in the sense that it is constructed and designed just like the flyback transformer in a raster monitor with the exception that the flyback portion (the horizontal deflection coil) is not needed and so is not present. There is an oscillator circuit that serves the purpose that the horizontal oscillator would in a raster monitor, and there is a power transistor that would be called a horizontal output transistor if it were in a raster monitor, but the part of the transformer that controls the retrace (flyback) is not present so there is no true flyback transformer in a vector monitor. If you must give it a name, use "HV" or "horizontal driver" instead of "flyback"."
leave it alone. you are not putting it out on location (I am guessing) so you don't need to do any modifications, if the game will work for an 1 hour without flaking out you have more to lose than to gain by messing with it.
Also, nothing (and I truly mean this) will make a 30 year old game bulletproof. Any rom, ram, cpu, custom chip can fail at any time causing the game to die. Nothing you do is going to change this.
You would be better to spend your time collecting documentation to be better prepared when a failure arrives instead of fixing things that are not broken to to begin with.
Well I was referring to the common mods done to this monitor to "bullet proof it" make it more reliable. Wasn't referring to the game PCB. I appreciate your opinion tho and welcome more. I've always had the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" creed. Just not sure I should apply it in this circumstance. So I like hearing everyones opinion.
After being on a half hour you really can feel the heat coming out the top vent. So no matter what I think a fan would help.
Demogo please do all of us a favor and contact both Arcadeshop, Cinelabs and hell why not Chad Ettringer and tell them all they are misleading people by saying they are selling "flybacks."
http://arcadeshop.com/wgxy-fb/wgxy-fb.htm
FWIW I like the old school way of his thinking but when Atari released service bulletins requesting OPS upgrade these monitors there was a reason for it. It's called preventative maintenance. It's like asking if you want to pay for an oil change or do you want to pay for a new motor
To each their own - she's your baby raise it how you see fit and most importantly enjoy your game!
Look at P100 on the deflection board. Are there resistors, transistors and diodes right in front of it? The upgrade replaces them with a little circuit board...