Do you have a second monitor you can use for testing? Swap out the HV,
deflection, and neck boards and isolate which one has the problem. FWIW,
my BattleZone had similar problems (Al, still no word on that other BZ)
that turned out to be the inline connectors. I still haven't replaced
them, but I found a sweet spot while playing around with wiggling them.
Jon
At 02:14 PM 3/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm working on a tempest monitor and almost have this thing working. In
>fact, at one point I got the picture to come up. Here's the problem....
>
>The deflection board is working. The Tempest motherboard is working
>100%. The spot killer light on the monitor stays off and I can hear the
>deflection working happily away. The CRT is glowing like it should.
>There is nothing wrong with the High voltage unit itself. I'm getting
>proper voltages going it. The only problem I see is - I am getting zero
>voltage going into the Focus assembley. For a while it was working but
>then it shut itself off. I'm trying to figure out what is causing the
>voltage go out. Could it be something on the neckboard that is causing
>this?
>
>I'm not yet familiar enough with this monitor to know why the spot
>killer would stay off and yet the focus assembly would get no voltage.
>
>Any ideas as to what to check?
>
>thanks....
>
>
>Matt
>
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