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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Level42 on March 11, 2009, 03:10:27 am
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I bet not many of you have seen one of these before:
(http://gallery.me.com/andre.huijts/100101/DSCF2541/web.jpg)
(http://gallery.me.com/andre.huijts/100101/DSCF2542/web.jpg)
It's a _very_ old model, prior to the 900 and it is really a weird beast and, so I learned, quite rare too.
A huge frame (which was mounted to the side of my Puckman cab) with an immense area of "nothing" between the two main PCB's, and lots of module PCB's. I think this might have been from the time that TV makers thought it was a good idea to make "modules" so they could easily swap them if anything broke down. However, they soon discovered that the module set-up was more often the cause for problems.....
My chassis is completely dead, and I don't have much desire to try and fix it as I have lots of other much more important things to fix on my cabs but maybe one day I will have a go.
There's a manual for this one right here:
http://www.andysarcade.de/data/coinop/videogames/raster%20monitors/hantarex/mtc90/mon_rc_mtc90.pdf
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hahahaha,those were very common monitors on cabs in the u.k when i first started work back in the mid 80's-the other common monitor at that time was the phillips tx9
they were total crap btw
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The Philips or the Hantarex ? Or both ? Maybe the Philips was made by Hantarex ?
I'm beginning to understand why people don't like the Hanti's, although I have to say that the 900E works nicely now on my Joust cab (do have to fiddle a bit more with the color set-up though, but there's a reasonable walk-through about that in the manual).
It looks like the Hantarex's were so over-engineered. If you see the number of parts on, let's say, a G07 and what's on a 900, it's amazing.
I always wondered why Philips wasn't a major player in this market. They were the nr.1 brand for TV's in that time, and so far all my TV's, even now, are Philips products. Never had problems with them and I still think they had the best CRT's in the world.
About CRT's, am I correct in thinking that Videocolor was just a brand name for Philips CRT's ? There have never been that many CRT makers and the whole set-up just smells like Philips :)
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there were lots of phillips chassis in cabs back in the early 80's,the tx9 and tx10-they were bloody awful
hantarex improved vastly when the polo range came out,everything preceeding that were serious problems
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hey i've got one of those in my galaxian cab.
think its dead so going to replace it with a mtc9000 instead.
not sure if the mtc9000 is working yet but i figure mtc9000 will be easier to fix anyway if it isn't?
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hey i tested my mtc9000 and it works.
stripped out the MCT90 and think its heading for the trash...
i don't think its working (i remember a number of resisters burning up when i tried to turn it on)
have no desire to start fixing an old (and apparently unreliable) thing like this...
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would the tube of MTC90 be compatible with MTC9000?
Maybe I just keep that as spare - given tubes becoming rare :)