Good morning, Good news, bad news. The good news is that Arcade Parts and Repair has confirmed that all their replacement caps in their cap kits are an accurate representation of what needs to be replaced. They stated that if there is a discrepancy in the cap values, chances are that they were previously, replaced with an incorrect value. That was good to hear. Now I can continue replacing the remainder of the caps. The bad news is that after checking the resistance across the windings of the flyback, they all showed a shorted condition. I first checked for a value between pins 1 and 3. The reading rapidly went from 1.0 to .9 then .8, .7, .6. Same across pins 4 and 5, 6 and 7, and also 6 and 10. When I changed the meter to indicate a tone for a short, all above readings toned out. Short, short, short, short. So maybe this can be construed as good news as this definitely confirms the reason for the 1-amp fuse to blow. I think now we can feel confident that the flyback definitely needs to be replaced. I’ll place that order today and give another update in a few days.
Jennifer, I can only wish that I had your level of expertise. I wouldn’t even know where to start with what you suggested. Perkins and I were on the same page with trying to determine what is actually causing that 1-amp fuse to blow. I think now it is quite evident that the Flyback was the culprit. Which is something that you instinctively knew from the beginning. My thoughts are, that I’m going to replace the rest of the caps and the flyback, hope that I have video, check my B+, correct the horizontal issue with a correct value combination of chicklets and take it from there. If this game works after all that I’ll have you guys to thank for it. I already appreciate all of your help and suggestions!