FREE: Wells Gardner 25" Monitor, broken, Lexington, KY

[Jack Burton]

I have a dedicated Super Chase cabinet that has been sitting in my living room for about a year.  An old roommate was going to convert it to MAME, but broke the monitor when he sent too high of a signal to it by directly connecting his computer to it.  People have told me that it needs the flyback replaced.

I'm just going to mount a computer monitor that can do 15khz in it since I have one.  But first I need to get the old monitor out.  I don't have anywhere to put it, and I can't very well set it into the trash, and I don't want to mess with discharging it since I've never done that.

I don't think there's that much really wrong with it, but it's free to anybody that wants to come and remove it for me.   I'll try to get pics/model # when I get back to my apartment in a couple of days.

PM me if you're interested.

[SirPeale]

Connecting too high of a signal won't blow a flyback.

I've read your other thread, have you considered just fixing this monitor?  K7000 are good monitors.

[Jack Burton]

Upon closer inspection I think I've found the true cause.

He has connected the molex power connector on the back of the monitor to a cut off extension cord.  He plugged this directly into the wall without going through a power supply.

He told me it made a very high pitched whine then a loud pop before he jerked the connector back out.  I've only been told by other people that this means that the flyback is broken, I personally don't know what it would do to a monitor to send a too high signal.

Also, this isn't the monitor that is in the other thread.

I actually have two broken arade monitors in two different places.   

I have considered fixing it, but don't consider myself adept enough to solder new pieces to the motherboard without breaking it. 

[SirPeale]

Ouch.  Running one of those without an isolation transformer isn't good.