What a funky monitor

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So you guys think that 20EZs are hard to take apart? What a pain in the butt the Zenith CD19MXRF06 is!

It's weird how this thing was made. It's made to trap dust that's for sure :)

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It only gets better when you start to put the bastard back together. Those are (literally) hacked TV's Zenith "modified" for Bally.

Edward
 
Nice! I was wondering who in the heck would design an arcade monitor like this?? I guess I will cap it while it is out AFTER I have washed it. It works great though.
 
Just looking at that makes me shudder, I'd never get that back together the same way.

LOL!

Once I got it apart its not that bad. I'll have to post a pic tonight, I cleaned it yesterday and it looks really clean now.
 
I had one factory in a Ms. Pac-Man....and one in my Wacko.

When Electrohome couldn't meet Bally's demand for monitors...they had Wells-Gardner as back-up....when Wells-Gardner couldn't keep up...Bally used anybody, and everybody....anyone who could slop something together and call it a "monitor". Zenith was one of those people. Thank god you rarely see one of these bastards. They truely do suck, to work on.

Edward
 
Trying to reconnect connectors on it is a PIA as well. I had to take apart the board sandwich on the right to get it all back together.

It's all cleaned up now!
 

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Trying to reconnect connectors on it is a PIA as well. I had to take apart the board sandwich on the right to get it all back together.

It's all cleaned up now!

Why did you have to do this? now you are making me want to go clean mine up that sitting on the shelf. I was this close to completely forgetting that I had it, and now you had to go and remind me. :)
 
I refuse to work on this sucker, if it dies I will source another monitor.

This is the monitor that blew up my test bench PCB. I was using a Tetris board that had lots of monitor tests on it (and was small and convenient). When I hooked the PCB to what I /thought/ was ground/sync on the monitor, instead I pumped like 30V into the board! It died of course. Probably wouldn't have happened if the documentation was better.

I'd like to know why that option is there at all on the board - must be for an actual TV thing.
 
This is the monitor that blew up my test bench PCB. I was using a Tetris board that had lots of monitor tests on it (and was small and convenient). When I hooked the PCB to what I /thought/ was ground/sync on the monitor, instead I pumped like 30V into the board! It died of course. Probably wouldn't have happened if the documentation was better.

I'd like to know why that option is there at all on the board - must be for an actual TV thing.

Damn that sucks! I wonder which connector that was...
 
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