OK...I hope to test the boards today here. Gonna be fun to hook them up to my 102cm. LED TV
Next step is examining the monitor chassis....bit hard without the tubes though
Anyway, I'll check all the caps with the cap tester and order/replace what's neccesary. Maybe gonna need some new pots too.
I've already checked all the main transistors and stuff that often die with the Fly-back but even on the chassis that had the Fly-back burning they measure out OK, so dropping in the Fly-back should at least bring it back to basic life.
One more thing: The board-sets use two NOVRAM IC's with a built-in battery. One is a 48Z02 "Zeropower", the other is a 48T02 "Timekeeper".
I've read about them on Jed's site (
http://www.jmargolin.com/rdy2k/hdzram.htm) and luckily both parts are still in production AND available for good prices from RSonline.
One of them we know already to be bad, because we had to set-up the control values every time at boot up, this is because those data are stored in the "Timekeeper".
However, the Timekeeper is rather expensive, and as Jed writes in that page, you can use a "Zeropower" instead for it, at the cost of loosing the date/time clock functions, but I'm not really that interested in when I played how many games.
Following this we can install two "Zeropower" chips instead of 1 Zeropower and 1 Timekeeper.
The Timekeeper would cost €17,71 (
http://nl.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=48T02&sra=oss check it out, isn't it funny, the faster version is cheaper than the slower !!!! Morons
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The Zeropower is only €9,72 (
http://nl.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=48Z02&sra=oss ahhhh, this time the slower version is cheaper
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(Prices including 19% sales tax).
So Bart, please let me know if you wish to replace these and also if you want to go for 2x Zeropower (like I do). Then I'll order the parts. They come from RS's partner Allied in the US which means a delivery time of about 10 days (but still free shipping
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