My Tempest was delivered last night with a known bad board. I swapped in a working board, and the game fired up. The monitor doesn't look so good though. I emailed the seller, and he said it was working when he tested it with his good board.
Here is how the image looked when I turned it on: (Couldn't figure out how to stay out of the pic
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After about 30 minutes, the monitor went black. It looks like the fuse on the right side of the board (lower fuse the way it is mounted in the machine) blew.
I still have a lot of reading to do since this is my first vector. I would like to order some parts while I catch up though. Do you have any recommendations? Bob Roberts has 3 levels of cap kit for this monitor, is the super duper kit needed? I have seen a lot of people suggest the lv2000. If I buy that, does it change what I need to get from Bob?
I am going to do some research before I ask for a lot of help here, but I just want to try to get the parts ordered so I can work on them this weekend.
Thanks,
Paul
Here is how the image looked when I turned it on: (Couldn't figure out how to stay out of the pic
After about 30 minutes, the monitor went black. It looks like the fuse on the right side of the board (lower fuse the way it is mounted in the machine) blew.
I still have a lot of reading to do since this is my first vector. I would like to order some parts while I catch up though. Do you have any recommendations? Bob Roberts has 3 levels of cap kit for this monitor, is the super duper kit needed? I have seen a lot of people suggest the lv2000. If I buy that, does it change what I need to get from Bob?
I am going to do some research before I ask for a lot of help here, but I just want to try to get the parts ordered so I can work on them this weekend.
Thanks,
Paul

