I have the same monitor, and it had the same symptom. The clue
was that, the day or two before the fuse blew, the monitor
gradually lost high voltage and bloomed.
Installing a cap kit solved everything: steady high voltage, and
no blown fuse.
On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 05:39 AM, Martin White wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction please. I have an Asteroids
> cabaret with an NOS WG15V2000 (think that's it's model).
>
> Since getting the monitor it has fairly consistently popped the 1A Slow
> Blow fuse on power up. Well, i never had slow blow fuses so i've been
> repeatedly bunging in quick blow.
>
> Thursday night i got hold of the right fuses, put them in and
> all seemed
> well.
>
> I was playing me centipede, looked round and noticed that the monitor
> had gone again, but this time NOT on power up just while sitting there
> in attract mode.
>
> Replacing the big blue cap in the PSU block has been suggested, but can
> anyone think of anything else to check please as this is now driving me
> NUTTY!?
>
> The fuse in question is the 1A one in a cluster of three towards the
> back of the monitor chassis. I think it's F100, but it could be 101 or
> 102 as that's from memory :o)
>
> Any pointers appreciated.
>
> Martin.
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