G08 chassis

I already have a dead one. Looking for a working one. I have no desire to work on these, and even Chad @ arcadecup.com doesn't want to touch these any more.

So still looking for a working one, someone to repair one, or swap/repair.

Thanks
 
> and even Chad @ arcadecup.com doesn't want to touch these any more.

When I asked him about that, his comment was that he was looking for some needed components to be used on the chassis.

So while you may be partly correct, it's not like he decided they can't be fixed; he was missing a needed part.
 
I talked to him on the phone, and he said he is no longer going to work on them because they take way too much time, they have lots of parts and wires to balance and manage on his bench, they get damaged easy, and often when they get back to the user, they blow again due to board/power issues. He said he was in this as a business and they are not a money maker, only a pain.

He fixed mine, after 3 months, and shipped it back. Plugged it in, and it had no vertical reflection. Quickly looking at it, the transistors were shot. I sent it back, and he found something in the high voltage section that was shorted, probably during shipping, that caused it to fry things. I lookedit over, and had a friend do the same when I got it, and didn't see anything shorted. Long story short, I told him I would pay him to fix it again, but he didn't want to do it because t would take a full day to do, and he could do several others in that time, that are easier and more profitable.

He has enough monitors in the queue to keep him busy, it makes send to focus on the easy ones that make him the most profit.
 
They use custom chips on both the deflection board and the HV units that are no longer available. I think they are made out of unobtainium... They do not go bad that often, but you are out of luck if they do... get another board and hope for the best. Plus the Uniwatt transistors do not exactly grow on trees either...


mh
 
Wow -- I stand corrected.

And that sucks -- not at all what I want to hear as I'd like to keep my Star Trek game going for many years.
 
I want to get mine working, and hopefully keep it working. I have 2 boardsets, but no working monitor. Guess I will have to hook it up to my o-scope and see what I can find out. Maybe I just have to mount the scope in the game and call it good. =)
 
Not to hijack this threat and a free bump for the poster.... didn't somebody post how to get a WG6100 to work in place of the G08 monitor. Those seem much more reliable and can actually be found.

Scott C.
 
The guys at P&L Monitor supposedly will work on these as well. As least that's what the owner told me about a year ago when I was there. They don't see too many come in, but have worked on them before.

Worth a shot, no one wants to work on these anymore...
 
Does P&L Monitor do good work? That's the first I've heard of them.
 
Good work, fairly good turn around time, but expensive on parts. I have only used them 3 times on very obscure monitors and had good luck with them.

2 cents worth.

mh
 
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