You might need to rejuvenate the monitor. Does the monitor in Star Castle point up at a mirror or out at the player? If up, the guns could have clogged.
Jon
At 02:38 PM 4/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I recently repaired another cinematronics monitor and it has been
>working fine for a while. Well, as usual, a friend of mine picked it up
>and installed it in a Star Castle. For awhile it looked good, but then
>he said the picture started going dim after a while. When he turned up
>the brightness, the neon bulbs started to light up. Of course, I told
>him to shut off the monitor, check for anything unusual like metal
>touching in the wrong place or something. He said that the anode clip
>was kinda loose but that was about it.
>
>I know they are used for bleeding off excess current in the event of
>voltage spikes, but I'm not exactly sure what to tell him to check. Can
>someone help me understand this problem a little better?
>
>Matt
>
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