Re: WG6100 (Tempest) D800 on occasionally

From: Tom McClintock <tomm_at_mgcap.com>
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 18:23:42 EDT

Your monitor is probably fine. Your game PCB (or power supply most likely) is at
fault.

Gregory Erway wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have had a Tempest for about a year (serial#00097 brag) that had a dead
> WG6100 when I bought it. I rebuilt it with a LV2000 and Bob Roberts cap kit
> as well as a power supply kit. It's worked great until a couple months ago
> when I noticed midway through a game it would reset. I guessed it was the
> game PCB and just bought a new one on eBay and went in to look at the game
> tonight. Before it was resetting once every 4 or 5 minutes. Today I see it
> resetting every 4 or 5 seconds. Now I see that D800 on the WG6100 deflection
> board is coming on when this happens. I guess that is the spot killer.
>
> Can I assume the most likely canidate is a chassis mounted transistor,
> insulator, or socket?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Greg
>
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