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.: Centipede restoration
project .: Monitor I had a monitor that I was going to use for this project, but the guy that gave it to me said it had "weak colors". When I plugged the monitor into one of my cabs to check it out, the colors were so weak that an image was barely visible even with the brightness and flyback screen controls turned up to the maximum. The monitor was a 19" Orion tube with an Eygo chassis. I took some pics of the chassis and sent them to the best monitor tech there is, Ken Layton, who confirmed that this monitor was the same as used in the Merit Type 2 and Type 3 Megatouch games. Ken was also nice enough to include a "cap kit list" for this particular chassis.
Following is the cap and repair info I received from Ken for this chassis, in the event anyone else runs into one of these monitors.
Well, even after I recapped the chassis, the monitor still had extremely weak colors. It turned out that the tube was shot and the chassis was just fine. Since I had a perfectly good monitor chassis without a good tube, I picked up a dead 20" TV from a local TV repair shop (they just throw them away!) and proceeded to do a "tube swap". Naturally the TV I got didn't have the proper vertical yoke impedance, so took the yoke off the Orion tube and put it on the TV tube. BTW, before anyone tries this, research swapping yokes on RGVAC before you do anything. It is important that you use care when swapping yokes because if you don't do it properly, you can spend HOURS getting the convergence set correctly again! Here's a photo of my tube swap:
After the tube swap, I connected the Centipede board to it and it was beautiful, essentially a brand new monitor that didn't cost me anything other than the time to do the swap! Since the 20" TV was larger than the original monitor (19"), I made some brackets to attach the tube to the wood bezel board in the cab.
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