Re: Now my Star Wars Deflection board blew!

I've been busy, but finally got around to replacing those fuses.
Since I couldn't find anything conclusive on the deflection board, I
hooked everything up and powered it up with new fuses installed.

Within a second R7 on the deflection board was on fire. Quite a
light show. It spewed black crud all over its neighbor, that tall
reddish thing at C3.

Now that I know that R7 is toast, can anybody suggest what is going
on with my deflection board? Should I just replace R7 and go from
there?

At this point I believe my HV board and transformer are fine. The
last thing I had done is to install inline fuses on the +24/-24 lines
leading from the deflection board to the HV board. The game ran fine
an hour or so after doing that, then lost video and found the 2 dead
fuses at F3 & F4 on the deflection board.

Thanks!
Jonathan

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:13:32 -0500 (EST), Christopher X. Candreva
wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Jonathan Stanley wrote:
>
>>So, I pulled the deflection board and see that I have blown BOTH of
>>the 5A 250V fuses at F3 & F4, this is near where the 2 violet wires
>
>Someone will tell me I'm nuts -- but did you try replaceing the
>fuses,
>powering up, and seeing what happened ?
>
>I would probably power up first with the HV board disabled. And see
>what
>those fuses actually feed on the scematic.
>
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