should I recap the monitor? what would you do?

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wells 19k7302. It was made 1997. It has a total of 90 credits on the game meter. pciture looks perfect. what do you think? recap?

and while I am on the subject of recapping 19k7302, I order some cap kits from bob roberts. his cap kit has a 3300uf 35v cap for c389.. My monitor has a 1000uf 35v cap in there(smaller diameter too). Bob thinks it might be a different run.. There were 2 or 3 other different caps. I will make notes this evening.

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IMO, if it looks perfect... don't touch it!

DogP
 
IMO, if it looks perfect... don't touch it!

DogP

I tend to agree. but this one will probably go into my revenge from mars, so I am leaning towards recap.


recapping another 7302 I found the following differences in the cap kit bob roberts sells..
c379: mine 10uf 50v *** bobs kit 22uf 50v
c339: mine 470uf 35v *** bobs kit 100uf 16v
c807: mine 47uf 50v *** bobs kit 100uf 16v
c825: mine not on pcb *** bobs kit 100uf 16v
c805: mine 220uf 25v *** bobs kit 470uf 25v
c389: mine 1000uf 35v *** bobs kit 3300uf 35v
c340: mine 100uf 25v *** bobs kit not included
c304 mine 10uf 16v *** bobs kit not included

also in my cabinet it had the wells gardner parts list with schematic for the 19k702. I can try to get it scanned if anyone needs it.
 
The number one rule of arcade repair is: if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Seriously.

If it comes up with a perfect picture, don't screw with it.
 
I'd leave it alone unless it gives you problems. If it was made in 1997, then it's not even that old. On older monitors, I almost always wind up recapping them, but those were made in 1981... Not only a good deal older, but there is a real difference in capacitor technology back then and now.

A monitor that's not very old, low hours - no need to go replacing caps.

-Ian
 
It was made 1997. It has a total of 90 credits on the game meter. pciture looks perfect.

I think those three sentences answer your question right there (even if pciture is dyslexic)

and if you've got people as experienced as Ken saying you don't need to cap it, then why would you?
 
I will abide by the collectives rule..

1 of the 7302's failed. it was sent to P&L and they fixed it and it failed again. (Looks like they replaced 4 or 5 caps). So I did a complete cap kit on it. Thats when I noticed some things being off in bobs kit. He is looking into it.

Since these monitors are coming out of print club(I guess import) they might be a slightly different revision to the 7302.
 
1) if it's for your own collection, leave it alone and cap it if you have a problem.

2) if it's going into something you're going to sell, make the determination on how noobish the buyer is, and cap it if you think it'll be a headache if they buy it, leave it on 24-hrs/day for the next 3 months, and it dies...
 
1) if it's for your own collection, leave it alone and cap it if you have a problem.

2) if it's going into something you're going to sell, make the determination on how noobish the buyer is, and cap it if you think it'll be a headache if they buy it, leave it on 24-hrs/day for the next 3 months, and it dies...

I generally will recap the monitor when I sell a game to someone. but I was going to put 1 or 2 of the 7302's into my games as backup for my revenge.

But I was thinking the monitors are not that old and not really used, so I was thinking it was probably worth the risk of failure.. thanks for the advice. I agree with don't fix if it aint broke..
 
as notoriously krappy as the "newer" wells monitors tend to be, dont touch it!!!


try not to adhere to the us government philosophy...
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