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Title: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: danatlvc on March 04, 2012, 11:50:33 AM
Hello, I have an IGT Video Poker Machine with a 15" CRT Monitor in it. It has a Great picture & colors. The only problem is when I start it up & the game screen pops up there are still very faint zig zag lines on the screen/very faint like the ones that appear when it is firing up. They go away after about 45 minutes. I have tried the monitor with a few other CERONIX 1492-H Chassis & still the same, so it's not the Chassis. On the yoke I did lose some of the ceramic clay on the back that goes between metal plates, but I wouldn't think that was it, but maybe??? Any suggestions/Newbie here?


Title: Re: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: cowboygames on March 04, 2012, 12:16:08 PM
If the problem stays with the CRT from chassis to chassis I would suspect a problem with the yoke itself. Have you tried swapping the yoke from another tube? Less likely would of course be some kind of short in the guns


Title: Re: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: channelmaniac on March 05, 2012, 12:56:23 PM
Can you post a picture of it? It could simply be some retrace lines showing up.


Title: Re: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: cowboygames on March 05, 2012, 02:13:08 PM
That's what I was thinking, but retrace lines would follow the chassis and wouldn't disappear after warming up


Title: Re: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: danatlvc on March 05, 2012, 03:48:51 PM
That's what I was thinking, but retrace lines would follow the chassis and wouldn't disappear after warming up
Thanks all for the replies. I switched chassis & now the lines are gone in a few minutes? The chassis that was original in there, I put in my other machine & no zig zag trace lines at all when it fires up? I'M STUMBED ?


Title: Re: Monitor Zig Zag Lines
Post by: channelmaniac on March 05, 2012, 03:57:10 PM
Depends on if emissions drop as the tube warms up... still could be retrace lines.