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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: gravitar80 on January 07, 2017, 12:24:32 pm
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I have a Wells-Gardner 27" D9200 that displays no video. I can hear it click normally when it powers on but nothing ever appears on the screen. Doesn't matter if I have the VGA connected or not, there's nothing. I know about the D9200 being a PoS, but I didn't when I bought it in 2004. It's been dead for a few years and I'm finally getting around to fixing it.
Am I correct in thinking that buying a cap kit for the monitor and replacing the caps is the right move? I bought it new so I know they've never been replaced. What's the best way to find someone who can do that? I was planning to call some local appliance repair shops and try to find a TV/radio tinkerer who could do the job.
Is there a better way? Am I way off in diagnosing the problem? What should I do?
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Does the neck glow? Smarter people than me will probably chime in but no glow no go? :dunno
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I don't think so? Would I know it if I saw it? The neck is the back of the tube, right?
I don't remember ever seeing a glow there when the monitor used to work, but I didn't poke around it much when it worked.
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Yeah, power it up in the dark and the neck should glow around the pins at the back of the tube.
Its a faint amber light that can be very dim.
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When I turn off the light and plug the monitor in, I see a blue spark briefly flash at the end of the neck and it makes a buzzing noise.
I'm guessing that's bad?
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Are there any Wells Gardner service manuals or literature for the WG D9200 beyond the parts list / schematic six pager I already have? I found a local repair shop and the owner thinks he can fix my monitor but he says he needs all the service literature and I want to make sure I gather up everything that's actually available.
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yeah, whatever wells gardner has on site is about it.
as long as he has a schematic he should be good.
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My tube is blown. I need to find a replacement tube or junk the whole monitor.
Argh.
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Repair guy hooked my tube up to his tester and it's totally dead, possibly cracked. He says he can replace the tube if I find a replacement, but I did some searching and as far as I can tell there are no replacement tubes available on the internet. I need a Thomson A68AEG25X07 tube and the one and only site I found selling them says they're out of stock.
Where can I get a replacement tube for a Wells Gardner D9200?
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Repair guy hooked my tube up to his tester and it's totally dead, possibly cracked. He says he can replace the tube if I find a replacement, but I did some searching and as far as I can tell there are no replacement tubes available on the internet. I need a Thomson A68AEG25X07 tube and the one and only site I found selling them says they're out of stock.
Where can I get a replacement tube for a Wells Gardner D9200?
Easiest place to get a good D9200 tube is one a bad D9200. The boards fail on them way more often than the tubes. Call all the amusement guys in town and see if anyone has a broken D9200 you can buy for parts. I have one in St. Louis but I am probably not local and I am not shipping a used 29" tube with burn on it.
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On the monitor board on the forum they told me it would most likely work with a tube that's similar enough, I found an A68AEG25X05 for sale online that should probably work.. or should I instead try to find a dead D9200 to cannibalize? But I'm not sure where I would find one around here (northeastern PA).