Fire in the hole!

[Wester547]

Re: Fire in the hole!

From what I was told, it is likely a cap issue... inside the flyback (i.e. you can't replace it without replacing the flyback). But the good news is it takes a while for it to break down fully. See this thread:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...hlight=D1626HT

I just find it confounding because I have the flat CRTs so they should be more failure prone. And again, 20,000 hours later (of usage; shelf life wise it's much older of course) and many thousand of cycles later, the first monitor of mine hasn't done it.... that seems to be stretching it even for "slowly" breaking down. When you say a capacitor inside the flyback, do you mean around one of the flyback circuits or do you mean that there's another capacitor inside the flyback itself that's breaking down? Is it electrolytic or something else? Going by that thread, it seems I'd need a whole new flyback.

EDIT: Why didn't I think of that. Yes, these monitors have flybacks from different companies. One is made in Japan (that's all it says) and the other has some part number I can't find any info on. No wonder one is starting to break down. Also, the UCC SMH in one of them has no plastic cover on the top...

[stj]

Re: Fire in the hole!

out of curiosity, is the flyback made by Eldor ??

those have a VERY bad record in the arcade industry in monitors made by Hantarex.
how bad? lets just say a monitor more than 5 years old is VERY unlikely to have the original transformer!!

philips also had a reliability problem wih tv flybacks, but i dont know who was making those.

[kc8adu]

Re: Fire in the hole!

how bout a 9v battery and steel wool.
or what i more commonly carry an 18650 and anything thin metal.

It's possible to start a fire with even less energy than that! Scary isn't it?!