Re: WG6100 monitor woes

>I wanted to say clean the size control pots, but those are on the game
>board.

Indeed. :)

>It still looks like dirt from the movies though. I just got through fixing
>a raster problem (centipede) that turned out to be a dirty H-sync pin. I
>would say clean all pins on the monitor, the cable, maybe even take the
>chasis transistors out of the sockets and make sure all wires are secure and
>pins are clean.

I'll give it a go, especially re the chassis transistors.

>Also, I had a problem with some of the original LV-2000 boards. Since the
>three 'standoff' wires that mount/connect it to the monitor had just a
>single solder point, they would break the solder pads on the lv-2000 board.
>I noticed this had been changed to an umbrella-handle like bend in newer
>revs, so I never even mentioned it and worked out some fix (I don't even
>remember what, but it's been working for a few years now).
>
>Which is a long way of saying -- make sure the connections from your lv-2000
>are good.

No problem there - for one thing the problem was evident before I even
fitted the LV2000, and I also triple checked all the LV2000 connections
when I installed it and no problems there.

Thanks for the tips.

Phil

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Received on Thu Dec 4 12:25:52 2003