Re: Asteroids no video

From: Jon Raiford <raiford_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 10:55:09 EST

If I were you, I would make sure you explain to your customer that wiggling that anode wire could really hurt him or her. That wire is used to supply the HIGH VOLTAGE to the picture tube. You should only mess with that wire with the power turned off and after discharging any voltage that the tube is storing (think of it as a BIG capacitor). If I were you, I would be concerned about your customer getting shocked by the monitor and suing you (probably wouldn't happen, but it could).

Be careful. The monitor is the most dangerous part of an arcade game.

Jon

At 12:09 AM 12/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> I have received word from the customer( I dont have the game with me)that when
>he wiggles the wire connection to the HV unit he gets video back then after a
>little bit every object gets really big and video goes out again. Possibly a bad
>solder connection?

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