Re: Amplifone problems

I have had the problem that Steve mentioned before and it is often hard
to tell since the boot holds the insulation tight even if the actual
wire is broken off inside. If you slide the boot back you will then have
a dangling wire.

Steven Winslow wrote:

> Robb!
>
> Did you check the focus wire going to the focus block? It's hidden
> underneath the rubber boot. If this wire becomes disconnected (and
> they do a lot) that one resistor will cook. I've had to resolder this
> wire more than once...
>
> Good Luck !
>
> Steve
>
>
> At 09:10 PM 4/11/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Hi again everyone, now that I'm done fussing with 6100's, it appears
>> I have
>> to do the same with a 19" Amp.
>>
>> I recently acquired a non-working Quantum in good shape, but not
>> working.
>> The game played blind, and it had a red HVT in it, so I figured that was
>> likely problem #1. So I pulled the HV board out of my Star Wars UR
>> and put
>> it in the Quantum, and all was well. I ordered a Wintron to fix the
>> Quantum
>> HV board, and haven't gotten around to having it installed yet.
>>
>> Anyway, I pulled the HV board out of the Q a few days ago to do some
>> work on
>> my Star Wars. It was working fine. Put the board back in the Q
>> yesterday,
>> fired it up, and nothing. After a minute or so, I could see a very
>> dim and
>> very out of focus picture. So I reached around and turned up the
>> brightness
>> a bit, and it did get brighter, but it is still way out of focus,
>> still dim,
>> and I could see retrace lines. Also, the screen size wasn't right
>> (the X
>> axis was way too big), aside from the fact that I had not done any
>> adjustments since the last time this board was in the Q.
>>
>> About this time I could sense the presence of that great burnt
>> "something"
>> smell, so I shut it down. Felt for warmth and the large resistor
>> near the
>> red can was VERY hot. It appears that both of those resistors were
>> very hot
>> at one time or another, but only that one was hot at this point.
>>
>> I haven't worked much on amplifones (yet), so I'm at a loss as to
>> what to
>> try next. I've done some googling and also searched the vector list
>> archive, and didn't come up with much. Is this something common
>> anyone has
>> seen?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Robb Gonyer
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Mon Apr 12 18:10:03 2004