Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Jack Burton on July 07, 2007, 12:44:21 am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ouch. Running one of those without an isolation transformer isn't good.