Fresh off my inability to fix a vertical collapse of a K7000 series, I've decided to take a shot at a bad Kortek KT-2914F.
I had this game for a short time (an auction pickup). It's a Rockin' Rollin' Bowling game from Namco.
One day when the kids turned it on (in a switch bank of 3 games) the screen did a Horizontal collapse to like 1/3 of the screen. I had full vertical deflection, but the picture was "squished" in the middle.
I didn't get a pic. After I saw it do that, I shut it down.
I'm sure it's the monitor because it's a computer based game, and it worked fine on a regular computer monitor. (I think it's at 31 Khz). Even the internal Kortek Menu is screwed and folded.
After poking around researching and dreading fixing this "brand new" thing (Date stamped 2006/June), I came to the idea I'd try to put in a cap kit and replace three of the transistors - Q703, Q706, Q708.
Bob Roberts actually had a cap kit for it, and there are 48 caps in it. I had to order the three transistors from Fairchild.
So I'm about to jump into it, and I'd like to dip into the well of knowledge and see if the great arcade monitor gurus have any more advice for a poor wretch like myself who just wants to play his game...?
I had this game for a short time (an auction pickup). It's a Rockin' Rollin' Bowling game from Namco.
One day when the kids turned it on (in a switch bank of 3 games) the screen did a Horizontal collapse to like 1/3 of the screen. I had full vertical deflection, but the picture was "squished" in the middle.
I didn't get a pic. After I saw it do that, I shut it down.
I'm sure it's the monitor because it's a computer based game, and it worked fine on a regular computer monitor. (I think it's at 31 Khz). Even the internal Kortek Menu is screwed and folded.
After poking around researching and dreading fixing this "brand new" thing (Date stamped 2006/June), I came to the idea I'd try to put in a cap kit and replace three of the transistors - Q703, Q706, Q708.
Bob Roberts actually had a cap kit for it, and there are 48 caps in it. I had to order the three transistors from Fairchild.
So I'm about to jump into it, and I'd like to dip into the well of knowledge and see if the great arcade monitor gurus have any more advice for a poor wretch like myself who just wants to play his game...?