Millipede monitor not lighting up - Matsushita 19"

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Millipede monitor not lighting up - Matsushita 19"

Finally achieved my dream of owning my own arcade cabinet only to have the air let out... literally. I'll apologize in advance. I'm still learning about the basics of the insides of cabinets.

While I was moving it from the person I was buying it from she didn't inform me that the back panel wasn't screwed on and it hit the back of the monitor and started to make a hissing sound like the air being let out of a tired. She had a lot of stuff in her garage and we were looking around never realizing "hey it's the monitor!" keep in mind this is after I had already turned it on and tested that it was working.

Anyway I get it home and we go to turn it on and we hear a electric buzzing sound and look in the back and see it's glowing but aren't getting a picture.

Can someone give me an idea how I can trouble shoot this?

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here is the good news you cant trouble shoot that. broken neck = death.

here is some sound advice for that monitor. throw it off a cliff and get a real monitor. yes i am serious.

that monitor chassis cannot be mated to any other tube but another matso piece of #$&@

get yourself a K7000, 4900, or go7 in the game and let it live a long and happy life.

Peace
Buffett
 
your tube is glowing bluish cause you cracked the neck. pull the chassis and maybe someone here can use it, then like buffet said, find another monitor.
 
here is the good news you cant trouble shoot that. broken neck = death.

here is some sound advice for that monitor. throw it off a cliff and get a real monitor. yes i am serious.

that monitor chassis cannot be mated to any other tube but another matso piece of #$&@

get yourself a K7000, 4900, or go7 in the game and let it live a long and happy life.

Peace
Buffett

So will I need a new flyback with this thing? Will I have to buy a new chassis as well? Or do I just need a monitor?
 
So will I need a new flyback with this thing? Will I have to buy a new chassis as well? Or do I just need a monitor?

The tube is the whole glass piece- from the screen right down to the blueish glow. The glass is broken at the glow.

The chassis is the circuit board underneath with all of the wiring. What they are suggesting to you is to remove the chassis part (boxy circuit board thing) and put it aside. Remove the glass thing completely, and throw it out because it is now worthless and can't be repaired.

You would then buy a new 'monitor' (which in arcade terms is the glass tube and circuit board combo), thus replacing the parts you currently have in that game that are not working at this time.

The flyback is the cylindrical thing mounted 'on' the chassis. A new flyback will do you no good because the tube (the glass thing) is broken. No good tube, no picture.

Hope this helps!
 
At this stage you're probably wondering why on earth the PCB is called a chassis... In the early days of TV's (and radios), the circuitry was mounted on a metal chassis:

RCACT-100ChassisCleaning5.jpg
 
Sorry what I meant was will I need to buy a new flyback and a new chassis with a new monitor. I understand the old one needs to be replaced.

It depends on what you mean by 'new'. If you mean, 'brand new monitor', I would think you won't need a flyback.. if you mean 'new to you' but someone else's old monitor that they had lying around, that's a different story.
 
Or you can do what someone else mentioned earlier. Use the existing yoke that is on the broken tube and put it on a tv tube of the same size and same pinout. Probably your best bet if you don't want to buy a new monitor.
 
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