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clicking monitor
Question from Ryan: I am fairly new to the hobby of collecting and repairing arcade games and have had some success so far. My current project involves the monitor on my mortal combat 2 game. I bought it cheap in non working condition but I’m having issues trouble shooting the monitor. It plays blind fine and if I play with the adjustment knobs enough I can almost get a picture. enough that i can see moving objects but certainly not enough to play the game. The problem seems to be related to the horizontal freq. adjustment and the flyback. When I turn up the horiz. freq. knob I get a clicking from the flyback or at least the area of the flyback that increases in volume and frequency as I turn the knob to the right. The chassis is hantarex if that helps. further adjustment of the other knobs results in a blank screen. I can only get the very poor picture back by seemingly random “screwing around” with the knobs and reseting the game. Any ideas and is this something I can fix myself or should I start shopping for a new monitor?
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Response from Tim: Its more than likely your hot or flyback or caps in your power supply section of the monitor chassis. Having said that there is a few other things resistors etc that could be failing too thus making the Hantarex chassis pretty difficult to repair even for an experienced technician. My vote would be to pull the chassis and ship it off to Chad at http://www.arcadecup.com which may cost you around $100 but will be a lot cheaper than a new one.
Tim
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