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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: nycjsw on March 09, 2012, 10:53:10 am
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Ok, so my Betson monitor crapped out after only 4 years. :angry: I had a 27" Panasonic Super Flat TV that fit in my Mame Room Cabinet (must < 27" wide to fit in cabinet). The Panasonic only had a S-Video hookup and I bought a VGA-S-Video adapter from S-Video dot com after I read about them on this forum. The picture wasn't that great and was kind of fuzzy.
On Craigslist I tried to find a better TV. Luck would have it a friend of mine was getting rid of his 27" Sony Wega with component inputs. It was too wide but I figured I would cut the sides with my Dewalt saw. Like an idiot when I took off the back cover to see what I would be cutting I failed to remove ONE SCREW :badmood: Naturally this screw was the one holding the component video jacks in place and it broke them off the circuit board. Well the S-Video on this TV looked pretty good. So I went with it and put it in the arcade cabinet. I soon found out that the TV was shorting out after a while (hours to minutes). I figured that I learned my lesson about the screw so I went back on Craiglist and saw the EXACT TV for sale on their for $70. I bought it, tested it and cut the sides again. After I cut the side and put it in the arcade cabinet I noticed the upper part of the picture looks a bit distorted and the component video inputs no longer work :banghead:
My question is does anyone have any tips to what I'm trying to do? There are circuit boards on the bottom back of the set so I guess the TV could be flexing a bit putting stress on these circuit boards??? It is also leaning back a bit on an angle so this would put more stress on the back of the TV. With the sides being cut I the back off the case is not nearly as solid. I also used a dolly to transport the TV after cutting it. The dolly has a 8" x 16" plate and I don't know if that mght have also messed up the TV?
Thanks for all your help. When the arcade is working it is a lot of fun. I have Mame running on it.
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Have you tried to have your betson monitor fixed? Any local tv or game repair shop can probably handle it cheaply.
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Yeah, I dropped it off at a place that had good reviews. I gave them the service manual. They tried a few things including ordering some parts but in the end I junked it. There was a $40 evaluation fee that I paid.
I guess my main question was about cutting the plastic around a tv. I don't want to totally decase the TV b/c of the danger but wondered if this is why people decase it. It seems that trimming the sides has rendered at least 1 tv and maybe 2 nonfunctional. Not taking a screw out was my screw up. ::)