Arcade monitor has intermittent Blue

Although I'm no expert, I'm trying to repair the monitor inside an
arcade cabinet. It's a Selti 22.0244.2. The problem is a low blue on
the screen, that from time to time will flash "good" just for a split
second. I suspected a dirty potentiometer and fiddled around with the
3 pots on the main board, but the problem didn't change. I also tried
disconnecting and reconnecting the plug that carries the video signal
from the arcade board with no effect.
The electronics are exactly the same as those shown in this page:
http://www.mameitalia.net/lofiversion/index.php/t10298.html
named selti#.jpg.
There are three more trimmers (although different) on the small board
that is attached to the tube but I haven't touched them yet.
The thing was built in 1992, so I'm thinking of replacing the
electrolytic capacitors, too.
Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

barabbadruso@email.it wrote:

Although I'm no expert, I'm trying to repair the monitor inside an
arcade cabinet. It's a Selti 22.0244.2. The problem is a low blue on
the screen, that from time to time will flash "good" just for a split
second. I suspected a dirty potentiometer and fiddled around with the
3 pots on the main board, but the problem didn't change. I also tried
disconnecting and reconnecting the plug that carries the video signal
from the arcade board with no effect.
The electronics are exactly the same as those shown in this page:
http://www.mameitalia.net/lofiversion/index.php/t10298.html
named selti#.jpg.
There are three more trimmers (although different) on the small board
that is attached to the tube but I haven't touched them yet.
The thing was built in 1992, so I'm thinking of replacing the
electrolytic capacitors, too.
Any help is much appreciated.

Swap the blue drive with one of the other guns to see if it's the
CRT, or the electronics.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

 

[Mark Zacharias]

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Although I'm no expert, I'm trying to repair the monitor inside an
arcade cabinet. It's a Selti 22.0244.2. The problem is a low blue on
the screen, that from time to time will flash "good" just for a split
second. I suspected a dirty potentiometer and fiddled around with the
3 pots on the main board, but the problem didn't change. I also tried
disconnecting and reconnecting the plug that carries the video signal
from the arcade board with no effect.
The electronics are exactly the same as those shown in this page:
http://www.mameitalia.net/lofiversion/index.php/t10298.html
named selti#.jpg.
There are three more trimmers (although different) on the small board
that is attached to the tube but I haven't touched them yet.
The thing was built in 1992, so I'm thinking of replacing the
electrolytic capacitors, too.
Any help is much appreciated.

If you are able and comfortable with working around 200 volts or so, check
the voltages around the video driver transistors on the CRT neck pcb.
Possibly the transistos associated with "blue" has an issue.

(opening emitter-base, etc) This assumes a crt-based monitor, of course.

Mark Z.

 

There's something strange on the RGB board!

There are 3 sets each consisting of:
2 BF871 transistors
1 390 Ohm 2W resistor
1 trimmer

But! The 3rd one, where the blue wire goes, has BF869 transistors and
a strange resistor without coloured bands. The trimmer is adjusted all
the way to one end, unlike the other two. On the solder side, I can
clearly see the brown remains of a rework (burned flux, I think) under
the resistor and the 2 transistors.

 

[Sjouke Burry]

barabbadruso@email.it wrote:

There's something strange on the RGB board!

There are 3 sets each consisting of:
2 BF871 transistors
1 390 Ohm 2W resistor
1 trimmer

But! The 3rd one, where the blue wire goes, has BF869 transistors and
a strange resistor without coloured bands. The trimmer is adjusted all
the way to one end, unlike the other two. On the solder side, I can
clearly see the brown remains of a rework (burned flux, I think) under
the resistor and the 2 transistors.

So, copy one of the good channels and undo the sloppy work.
for a quick test, swap the green and blue input wire, to see
whether the board has an error, or the fault is in a previous circuit.

 

[Mark Zacharias]

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There's something strange on the RGB board!

There are 3 sets each consisting of:
2 BF871 transistors
1 390 Ohm 2W resistor
1 trimmer

But! The 3rd one, where the blue wire goes, has BF869 transistors and
a strange resistor without coloured bands. The trimmer is adjusted all
the way to one end, unlike the other two. On the solder side, I can
clearly see the brown remains of a rework (burned flux, I think) under
the resistor and the 2 transistors.

Does sound like you are in the right area...

mz