Re: Vector melt down and repair

Not a good idea to run games around 40 degrees, as they can have serious
condensation problems...(as you found out)

Keep them at 60+ for best results...a small light bulb (say 25 watts) kept
in a closed cabinet should keep the condensation away. Make sure the bulb
is not near any wood or paper! Wood can spontaneously combust after being
exposed to something like 200 degree heat for a month or so...(check out
the spacing for wood stove flues to get an idea of the risk or lack there-of)

John :-#)#

At 09:30 AM 1/17/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> The other day I switched on my Black Widow only to hear a lot of
>arcing followed shortly by a bad smell (never a good sign). Close
>inspection revealed the monitors HV transformer had arced through the
>insulation and was shorting to chassis ground. Before I dismissed it as
>a goner, and on the advice of my friend and local monitor expert James
>Sweet, I filled in the large molten hole with silicone glue. It had
>several other smaller cracks also so I covered all those with glue too.
>It Works!!!
>
> The game is in my garage where it was only 40 degrees or so at the
>time. I think the rapid expansion of the insulator caused it to crack. I
>have noticed before that many games just fail to work properly when it
>gets below 50 or so. I know you're supposed to let them warm up before
>plugging them in. But that means I can't play with most of my collection
>until spring!!!! Waaahhh.
>
>Jason Milsom
>
>http://community.webtv.net/MILSOM44/MilsomsPuband
>
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Received on Mon Jan 17 10:29:22 2000