Re: WG6100 Problems (Please Help).

Hi Jon (And others),

I'm going to replace the fried resistors and reverse the upgrade. I pulled the
Q704 transistor and it's fine. The Chassis transistors are new and were working
before the "Upgrade". I'll be checking them again before the re-power up.

The problem that prompted this was that at the exact same point in the game
(Tempest), the spot killer would come on and it would look like the monitor was
having problems with deflection. It would have a center spot that would draw just
portions of the picture before the spot killer would kick in. The strange part is
that many levels would play just fine, but certain ones would fail as would the
TEMPEST logo in attract mode.

It was suggested to me this weekend that the problem may be with my game boards in
that the "op-amps" may be weak. The monitor may have been perfect. Any comments
and suggested fixes? I may have another monitor coming to visit that would answer
that question, but I'd still like to know.

Thanks to everyone,

-Al-

Jon Raiford wrote:

> I took just a quick look at a deflection board I have sitting here (read:
> I didn't look at the schems). Do a diode check on Q704 and on the chasis
> transistors. Also check to see if the chasis transistor casings are
> shorted to ground. If nobody else suggests anything, I'll look at the
> schems later tonight and see if anything else looks suspicious. If I
> get really ambitious, maybe I'll measure some voltages on a known good
> board to give you some places to check (maybe this would be a good kind
> of thing to document for others to do a quick check when diagnosing
> non-cap kit related failures?)
>
> Jon
>
> At 12:31 AM 10/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Everyone,
> >
> >I installed the upgrades suggested in:
> >http://www.gamearchive.com/video/manufacturer/atari/vector/html/zanen206.html
> >
> >after installing a Cap Kit in the same monitor. I did the "Extras"
> >because my Spot Killer kept coming on at the same point while playing
> >the game (Tempest). It was like it thought it lost signal.
> >
> >After installing the upgrades, I turned on the monitor and a few puffs
> >of smoke and R709, R713, F700, and F600 are all fried. At least these
> >things went wrong. I'm at a loss here folks. Any ideas?
> >
> >Please offer any advice that you might have about what to do from here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >-Al-
> >
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