Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Green Color Maxed out on WG 4600

Wow I guess everyone loves to hate those 4700's :) I myself have not
had a great experience thus far :) The monitor itself is in good
shape were it not for the screen curl, red-mis-alighnment and now the
green issue. The color sure is nice though :P

I took your advise, however, and did some research on the WG K7000.
According to their website, it looks like it is used for Pac-Man and
Ms. Pac-Man games, and it's only $230. TwoBits I think also sells a
conversion kit which might be why it is so expensive, although I'm
thinking they they are probably selling something like a K7000 over
the 4600 if you can easily drop it in? *shrug* And speaking of, is
there anything I would need to do in order to convert my cab to use a
K7000? Or even an Electrohome for that matter? And can I expect any
difference in visual appeal? I noticed that it looks a whole heck of
a lot better to work on, being that everything is on a single board...

Thanks Again! I think this is likely the route I will eventually
go...for now, I guess I'll have to play Ms. Pac-Man using mame until
I can get mine fixed :P

Tim

On Oct 29, 2006, at 9:23 AM, peter jones wrote:

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Soderstrom <tim@moocowproductions.org>
> To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:51:46 -0600
> Subject: Re: RASTER: Re[2]: RASTER: Green Color Maxed out on WG 4600
>
>>
>> Wow, well thanks for everyone's help on the matter! Is swapping the
>> signals fairly easy?
>>
> very easy.
>
>
>> I think either way, it looks as though this particular issue has
>> exceeded by technical abilities :P Is this type of work something a
>> TV repairman can do? I know someone who can likely help me with the
>> cap-kit and probably even the solder joins, but I don't think we can
>> go as far as to fix this issue. At least not yet :)
>>
>
> if he can change caps then he can swap wires and change transistors.
>
>> If it helps, I will say that the last adjustments I made recently
>> were the neck pots. I was trying to help mitigate the mis-alignment
>> of the red (towards the bottom left-hand corner it is worse and quite
>> noticeable)
>
> that sounds like a magnetic field problem - not electronic
>
>> *shrug* Anyone know of a good place to find 4600's? :) I know TwoBits
>> sells them new for $329.
>
> 4600's are shit - dont touch them,
> they arent even monitors, they are converted television chassis -
> look at the spaces for a tuner and composite stuff.
>
> if you have to replace it and want something original then find an
> electrohome G07,
> something newer would be a wells-gardner K7000.
>
> both a hell of a lot cheaper than that piss-taking quote you provided.
>
> $329 ??? they must be on drugs - a 4600 isnt worth $29 ecept maybe
> for the tube.
>
> you should get a used G07 or K7000 for well under $100 in the trade.
> in the u.k. i can get a 19" K7000 or hantarex polo for about
> &#163;35 ($50-60)
> hell, $329 is more than the price of a brand new monitor from a
> dealer like wico complete with warranty etc.
>
> and i do mean *new* not something from the back of a warehouse that
> spent 27 years drying it's capacitors out - that's right, you would
> still need to change the caps if it's old even if it was never used.
>
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