Hey Guys,
First off - just to get it out the way - I know jack about monitors, trying to learn, been watching a lot of videos - will hopefully get there one day.
Anyhow I'm hoping some of you can point me in the right direction. I picked up a Ms PacMan last week that was in really rough shape. I replaced the power cord (2 prong - have a new 3 prong I'm swapping this weekend) on it and got the board to boot to garbage on the monitor - and maybe some collapse( not sure - posting pic below). I repeated this a few times after successively cleaning the edge connector until the monitor stopped showing any picture at all.
Now the Monitor has a slight hum to it, but I get no picture whatsoever. There is no neck glow, but every now and then when I switch the game on I hear the crackly hum of what I think is the degauss circuit.
Its a 19" RCA tube with a Sharp Image Chassis. I checked all the fuses near the transformer and they are all good. I checked the voltage running into the monitor and its 120V AC.
I'm planning to pull the monitor out this weekend to examine it further, and hopefully get a model number off the chassis.
Any of this sound familiar? Any suggestions on next steps?
First off - just to get it out the way - I know jack about monitors, trying to learn, been watching a lot of videos - will hopefully get there one day.
Anyhow I'm hoping some of you can point me in the right direction. I picked up a Ms PacMan last week that was in really rough shape. I replaced the power cord (2 prong - have a new 3 prong I'm swapping this weekend) on it and got the board to boot to garbage on the monitor - and maybe some collapse( not sure - posting pic below). I repeated this a few times after successively cleaning the edge connector until the monitor stopped showing any picture at all.
Now the Monitor has a slight hum to it, but I get no picture whatsoever. There is no neck glow, but every now and then when I switch the game on I hear the crackly hum of what I think is the degauss circuit.
Its a 19" RCA tube with a Sharp Image Chassis. I checked all the fuses near the transformer and they are all good. I checked the voltage running into the monitor and its 120V AC.
I'm planning to pull the monitor out this weekend to examine it further, and hopefully get a model number off the chassis.
Any of this sound familiar? Any suggestions on next steps?
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