Re[2]: yoke question for experts-only!

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From: Mark E Davidson <mark@basementarcade.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:20:08 -0800
Subject: Re: VECTOR: yoke question for experts-only!

>
> This isn't a tough question.. Im an idiot and I know the answer to this!
> Go for it! I do this all the time.
>
> I have a pet peeve about screen burn.. I hate it. Any game that goes in
> the arcade ether gets its tube replaced or gets a new monitor. I started
> my collecting career doing a lot of monitor replacing, until I ending
> up with no money left, and a big pile of working monitors with Gauntlet
> or Marble Madness burned in to the screen. One day, at an auction I
> picked up a Wico monitor (an unknown, crap monitor that you cant / want
> to find parts or schematics for) with the assumption that is was dead,
> but I got it for the tube witch looked new. Long story short... the
> chassis was a hacked up / burned up mess so I combined the tube / yoke
> from the Wico with the chaise from a WG 4900 series. Presto... New
> monitor. I have quite the combination of monitors now as I have done
> this at least 4 times each time with a different chaise to different
> series tube / yoke and only once did I run into a problem where the
> picture was mirrored on the screen requiring me to reverse 2 on the yoke
> leads.
>
> A tip.
> What swapping out the tube / yoke, do NOT move the degaussing coil
> with it. Retain the coil for the monitor board you are going to use. The
> coils are tuned to the board (learned the the hard way)
>
> Happy holidays, group.
>
> -=Mark=-
>
thanx,

i will try to fit a 15" dell-ultrascan tube in my taito tabletop after x-mas.
the monitor just died and it had the most incredible picture i have ever seen!

the thing i was unsure about was using a 30khz yoke at 15khz,
still, fuck-it - as they say! it will work/or it wont
NOTHING TO LOSE!

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Received on Tue Dec 24 13:44:33 2002