Tiptonium
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As some of you may already know, I've been having problems with a 13 month old monitor. I took it in for service on Tuesday. I picked it up on the way home from work. I installed it in my cabinet and tried it out. It looked much better. The tech had replaced a bunch of capacitors. He was not sure if if would fix it but like I said the picture looked much better. It was on for about 2 minutes. I adjusted the brighness and position. I then switched off the cab. This monitor does not use an isolation transformer, it gets power direcly from an AC cord.
I put the glass back in place and closed up the cabinet fo a much neede game session.... then....
The cabinet would not turn back on. No sound from the jamma. No picture. I checked the fuses and they were both fine. I checked the power going into the power supply and it was reading an even 120volts. The power coming out of the power supply to the jamma harness read 0 volts for all outputs. no 5+. no 12+. The thing must have died when I switched off the power somehow. Was it its time to go? There was no warning. No pop. No fizz. Nadda. Man, what rotten luck. annoyed
I put the glass back in place and closed up the cabinet fo a much neede game session.... then....
The cabinet would not turn back on. No sound from the jamma. No picture. I checked the fuses and they were both fine. I checked the power going into the power supply and it was reading an even 120volts. The power coming out of the power supply to the jamma harness read 0 volts for all outputs. no 5+. no 12+. The thing must have died when I switched off the power somehow. Was it its time to go? There was no warning. No pop. No fizz. Nadda. Man, what rotten luck. annoyed
