Re: G05 Deflection Board Repaired

Remember how long I spent waiting to fix that one board that had those
blown? (actually, I think you bought the replacements for me) I would
hate to find out they could be shorted without any ill effects. BTW,
welcome to "the list" :)

Jon

At 01:00 AM 12/20/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> > > ----------
> > > From: Mark Spaeth[SMTP:mspaeth@arcade.ne.mediaone.net]
> > >
> > > Just wanted to announce my first successful G05 deflection board repair.
> > ...
> > > How often to those high wattage resistors fail? I've seen them
> > > replaced on quite a few deflection boards now, but wouldn't expect
> > > them to be a major failure mode...
> > >
> > Don't worry about. You should have just chopped them out and
> > put a jumper in each of their places. I did it last week for an AD
> > that went blank because one of them had opened up.
> > It's an accepted practice, check Deja.
>
>I know it probably won't make a big difference, but it seems like that
>resistor is needed to feedback the yoke drive current to the input
>diff pair, and replacing it with a short will cause a bit of distortion.
>
>Would be interesting to see how noticable that distortion is...
Received on Mon Dec 20 08:25:18 1999