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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: TravistyOJ on September 25, 2005, 07:01:17 pm
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For some reason now my monitor only displays one line, I looked around and i guess this is a sympton of vertical deflection failure. Is it more like that this is a loose connection somehwere or a short somehwere? If I have to replace caps or anything like that, I think I am pretty much screwed, as I have no experience with monitor repair, and to be honest the very idea scares me.
How much do you think it would cost to have a technician fix it, or is this something that I could fix? Thanks
Anyone in the atlanta area willing to make a deal on this or help me out? I am looking to buy or trade this cabinet anyway, so if you are in the atlanta area, it is a blitz 99 2 player cab with a switchable res nanao 26" monitor.
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For someone that has experience with electronics, it would be fairly easy.
If you've never touched a soldering iron, you can either practice until you can solder, or find a tech in your area.
It's *really* not that hard. But you MUST practice first.
It is likely either a bad cap, or a cold/broken joint. Randy Fromm doesn't have a flowchart for this particular monitor, so I can't tell you which cap(s) it would be. But you could always just touch up the solder on all of them.
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I mean I know how to solder and have worked with electronics before, just never monitors.
I sent an email to jomac (from what I hear he is the Nanao expert), hopefullly I will hear back from him.
But i mean is this most likely a loose connection, a short somewhere, a bad cap, or are all these problems equally probable?
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If you want to drag it up to chattanooga, I'll be happy to work on it.
Later,
dabone
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Hi Travis ,
This link pretty much covers all your questions http://www.startechjournal.com/discus/messages/3768/3151.html?1089221377
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There is an actual full pictured article in startech as well covering this very problem ,but I think you have to be a subscriber to view it .
Regards
Jomac