Cold killed my monitor

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This is one of those, "I'll never do that again......" situations when you in fact - you do do it again!

I had a fully working, mint display, …Pacman with a K7000 in the garage and brought it into the house and fired it up before letting the game warm up, it was about 40deg....

Anyway, the once mint display is now just a 2" horizontal line down the middle of the display. it's not just one color, you can actually see the game in the middle, like someone drew the curtains closed from both sides. Would this be called vertical collaspe?

I will get some pics in a few.......

I'll never do THAT again!

Jeff
 
I'll never do THAT again!

you wont now will ya:D

but yes that is probably vertical collapse (pic's when you can to be sure) and if you let it warm up it may return to normal.
but i would not bet on it.

if you haven't done so cap it and hit all the known cold solder joints. make sure that the anode hole is clean and moisture free.
then fire it up at room temperature and see what you get.

hope its just something simple.

Peace
Buffett
 
Probably has some suspect solder joints. The cold just shrank them causing them to show themselves. Pull the chassis and go over the yoke header pins, all around IC3, and hit up the rest of the chassis while you're in there.
 
GOOD NEWS!

I went over the board and did not "see" anything but as I am no longer as sharp as I used to be, I took the liberty of going over the usual and viola! I GOT GAME!!!

Thanks for the inspiration, it really helped.

BTW, I attached the pics as I had promised.

Thanks again
Jeff
 

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since on the subject, what is a safe temp. to run your games at?
A lot of times the manual for the game will list the safe operating temperature range. I think anything above freezing would be okay, but even then I don't like to power them up in that environment.
 
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