Re: Fix one, another goes

I will disagree. If there is enough wear for one part to fail, then
there is certainly enough wear for another part to fail. I don't
want to pull my game out every six months to replace a cap. That
is wasting a lot of time and my time is worth more than the $5 worth
of caps, so when I pulled a failed chassis I replace all the caps.
It saves some troubleshooting time, strengthens the monitor, removes
wear from other non-failed caps, etc. It adds maybe an hour to the
repair vs the time to pull it out every six months, pull the chassis,
etc.

Even if the game spends most of it's life turned off, there is still
wear and tear on those caps and they will eventually fail.

Scott C.

Mickey Johnson wrote:
Well, because usually most G07's, the weak part is the tube (in that most have massive burn and/or weak guns). If you change that one cap and the picture looks ok, chances are the monitor will last as long as the person will use the monitor (most arcade games are off, not on). Hey, there is nothing wrong with doing a cap kit, but changing electronic parts that don't need changed is a waste of time (especially when most chassis can be removed in 5 minutes.

If it was 'back in the day' and the monitor was going back to 24/7 service, then I would agree. When its going to sit off 99 percent of the time for the rest of its life, might as well fix whats wrong and then move on to another project.


"James Sweet" <jamessweet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gp13s1$n9h$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mickey Johnson wrote:
Actually before you go to the work of a cap kit, change just one cap first. C511 can fail and shut the entire monitor down. Its common for that one cap to be bad.


If you've got the thing apart, why replace just that one cap? I'm a fan of troubleshooting over shotgunning in most cases, but half the battle is getting the thing apart, once you've done that you may as well replace the rest of the common failures. I've tested capacitors when I've done replacements and a good portion of the ones that come in the kits tested at least marginal on the ESR meter so I replace them all and it's good for another 15-20 years.


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