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The monitor was dead and boardset only made horrendous noises when I first turned this machine on.

The Monitor

The monitor was a 14" Kagi monitor. It clearly had a blown flyback transformer (there was a big hole melted through the flyback case), a resistor was burnt to a crisp, a fuse was blown, and on closer inspection, the HOT was toasted. I couldn't find a supplier of Kagi flybacks, so I ended up getting a 14" Commodore 1084 monitor off eBay to use instead.

I sawed the plastic case off the Commodore monitor (apparently it came out of an elementary school, it was stuffed full of Valentine's day cards signed by little kids), screwed the tube into part of the frame I took off the Kagi, and used a cable tied to secure the plastic bottom of the monitor to the PCB cage. The thing fits so tightly there's no risk of it moving anywhere and shorting something.

Here's a picture:

The PCB

The PCB for Astro Fighter is a four-board set in a little cage. Each board is covered with hundreds of ceramic disk capacitors, resistors, and transistors. So, I utterly feared to try and fix whatever was wrong with the PCB. Fortunately, this isn't the most popular game around, so replacement PCB's can be had extremely cheap on eBay. I know, the easy way out... but I like the easy way out!

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Last Modified: 12/07/01