Question regarding tempest

Kalan714

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I have a tempest that plays blind, the vector chatter is there but the spot killer was on. I soldered a few points on the deflection board and some cold solders at the interconnector areas on the pcb board. The spot killer is no longer on,the game plays blind, there is a glow on the neck of the monitor and the deflection chatter is there. Where is the issue?
 
Most likely you have lost the high voltage, not uncommon in the vector games, try turning the brightness up first just to be sure it didn't inadvertently get turned down.
Dick
 
Have you checked the 6100 FAQ? There's a troubleshooting flowchart in there as well as some other good information.
 
Tempest

Pulled the high voltage as it looks like it had never been removed prior, two smoked transistors, smoked resistor and a cap. Luckily I still have a rebuild kit which had all the parts except the resistor. Hopefully after I replace that it will fire up, there were also a couple of cold solder points at the connector which I reflowed. Fingers crossed.
 
Tempest

Thanks for the links to ionpool, its been awhile since i've used that page. Great information as well as upgrades. Hopefully this works. Its very close.
 
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