Monitor (Space Panic) not working after car accident

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Monitor (Space Panic) not working after car accident

No lie. I picked this up and had it in the back of my SUV for a couple days.
I was driving home from work one night and got smacked in the back end while sitting at a red light. The cocktail table almost fell over but got caught on the roof of the vehicle at about a 45 degree angle.
I actually had to loosen the leg bolts to lower it enough to get it out of the truck...

Anyway, after getting it out and plugging it in, the monitor now looks like this.
What happened?
(It did work fine when I bought it and loaded it into the vehicle)
 

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That is called vertical collapse. It may be something as simple as a cracked solder joint or it could be a failed IC. You need to identify the monitor and look over the chassis for any obvious problems.
 
Well considering the impact the truck took I think a cracked solder joint (or 10) is very likely. Once I identify the chassis and look it over... if I don't see anything obvious... are there places that are just smart to hit with the iron?
 
Man that sux! I honestly worry about that every time I haul a game.
Do you know what chassis/monitor it is? It could be solder joints, cracked traces, loose wires, etc...
 
yoke

If it work and now it does not after the crash i would assume a crack solder joint ,yoke wire solder pads crack,a wire came off the yoke area.
 
If it work and now it does not after the crash i would assume a crack solder joint ,yoke wire solder pads crack,a wire came off the yoke area.

The cabinet is a rusty piece of sh*t so I am gonna disassemble it all anyway to clean and repaint it. (The basement I saved it from was like a Florida swamp). I'll pull the monitor then and see what's obvious.

Hey... maybe this would be a good monitor for my DECO cocktail that is missing the mysterious, "who-knows-what-was-in-there" monitor.(Thinking a Sanwa based on the DECO upright manual.)
 
I'd venture to guess it's a 14" Toei, those always seem to have bad vertical deflection.

Yep... Toei CM-A14

Gonna order a cap kit, while I have the monitor out, and touch all the solder points as recommended earlier. If that doesn't fix it... I will give it away.
 

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If it was working before it was jarred, and now it's not, then a cap kit isn't the solution - it's a cracked solder joint. Something got knocked loose.

Try putting the monitor back in the game, and put the game back in the car. Then, simply crash the car into something the opposite direction. That ought to knock it back into place :D

-Ian
 
Try putting the monitor back in the game, and put the game back in the car. Then, simply crash the car into something the opposite direction. That ought to knock it back into place :D

-Ian

Hmmm... I would do that except I can't remember which side was facing forward at the time of the accident. If I don't do it correctly I might break it all the way... or something much, much worse.
 
Call a good laywer and sue for its replacement! : )

Naw... here in "Minne-so-cold" it's called Conciliation Court. I currently have a case against a business (and I won) but it's been over a year and I haven't yet collected. Amazing how much of a pain in the ass it is... just fatiguing for sure.

The person who hit me was hit by the car behind them (and driven into me by that impact) and the original "hitter" was uninsured.

Big shock there.

So... I would rather just try to fix it and, failing that, offer it as a parts donor chassis. I only paid $50 for the whole game so I wouldn't be out much.
 
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