 Hey there everybody. Welcome in today. Welcome in today. I'm finishing up with some last second adjustments here Just before I switch over but first off I want to say thanks to Leaf and of course Don Honk for showing up in the chat early today. If you guys can hear me out there fine just let me know with something in the chat and we'll Get things ready to get started over here on today's show Great great great great great well Hello and Welcome back everybody. I have Been working extra hard The last oh the last couple days to get things ready and So Before I get started today, thank you all for joining me and thank you for confirming everybody that the sound is good and Thank you for being patient I thought I was gonna be able to have this big plan of streams over the last week and my goodness It's been quite a crazy adventure over the last ten days. So I wanted to Kind of fill you all in on what's been happening We'll get some get some more people pouring into the chat here. And of course I do have an exciting run-through on my latest restoration, which was a Sony FW 900, but before we get started Just do me a favor if you're able to click the like button for us today so that we can get out there and the reach will be there and everybody on YouTube will know where to go at this moment for some high-quality CRT content and and anyway Second big announcement Second big announcement before we get into story time and what's been happening here lately There's a new video tomorrow and I already put a premiere up for it it's actually the pinned comment in The chat right now in the live chat. There's a pinned comment It's just going to the premiere of that that will be ready tomorrow. It's already set to go and So that's another big announcement that'll be ready tomorrow. It's gonna be a fun video. I think you're gonna enjoy it. I actually had compiled four different unboxings of all PVMs that I bought off eBay recently and boy, what a nightmare that was so Wow Four of those I did have some troubleshooting or one of them had a lot of problems so there's a lot of good stuff in that video and that'll be up tomorrow and So before we do that. Yeah, I'm gonna say some shout outs and people looks like Yeah, May soda is here Hello to Nate 10 ter space Nate 10 ter space demon 20 child rollpats and Everybody else here Persian immortal relaxing music the Bob Ross retro gaming repairs. I don't think I'm taking over Voltares title so don't worry about that, but I'll be here to Get as close as I can to the Cusps of Voltares abilities because he's still you know, he's still one of the best soldering Experts there is in this community Speaker adventures. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for showing up PO 17 and Fujiko Jeff Hampton Thanks again, everybody So, yeah, feel free to chat about things that they've been going how things have been going for you guys Hey super guy good to see you here, too and I'm gonna go through and I'm just gonna go through I've got a list of things that I actually wanted to just mention here before I actually get started on that restoration stuff And first off is just a little story about basically what happened after the last Stream which I'm trying to think about on my schedule was over a week ago You know And it was the unboxing after actually a super guy CRT had sent in a couple of cool little CRTs And I got to unbox those on the channel and then I was like what look we'll try to get some streams going So right after that Right after that I had gotten into working on after that all came in I got into working on the Sony FW 900 a Beautiful monitor and that's we're gonna go through here in a second. So I got into those repairs. It was about a day or two and After I had gone through and recapped I Think every board it was Friday evening. I'll never forget this now because it was a Friday evening. Yeah, I had the kids home My wife was home. We went out to dinner after I got done with, you know recapping everything on this FW 900 and It was all tested and put up and I was like I'm gonna go worry about adjustments later. Well, we went out to dinner We came home and When we got home that evening there was a giant like flash Thunder a thunderstorm slash, you know, just rain downpour really a lot of rain at one time and When it rained I was in the basement after going out to dinner not gonna lie I had probably a whiskey drink and I was watching. I was watching Sean Connery James Bond movies on laser discs. No joke after hanging out. I was relaxing doing that and when I was doing that I Started to fall asleep, but I started to hear the rain in in my dreams I remember and all of a sudden I remember waking up and I could just hear water like it was coming in the house and Unfortunately once a year that happens in the basement here And it's generally not a huge amount of water and I'm really prepared for it But whenever it happens it always makes a big cleanup mess So I woke up and I noticed yeah water started to come in and I look up at one of my windows And I have these windows in the basements here and they're little windows. They're half the size vertically as they are as a standard window and then they're the same width and What had happened is I look over and one of those is it is a couple of those are under recessed into the ground and I look over and there's a whole it looks like an aquarium. There was about 70 80% of the way up of this glass pane. There was a water line and this had just filled this entire Drainage hole with water where the window is and I was just like oh my goodness, you know, thankfully I had gone through and sealed that a year ago but it Had it started to come through the wall down through the basement wall into the flooring and I had to run outside and Ultimately what had happened is a gutter got clogged I unclogged the gutter Water stopped flowing into the hole where the window was I had to bail out all the water from the window hole to get it back down to ground level And then I was spending all weekend that whole night really cleaning up the water and I know it sounds crazy because I've got you know a lot of electronics you can see around here, but I'm so prepared for this and the reason This kind of went Fine was the fact that everything in my shop. That's of any importance is Suspended when I'm not working on it So there's no real risk unless there was like five two or three feet of water in here that anything would get hit with water And that never happens that we're talking You know a little bit like worst case scenario some places would get hit with a quarter half an inch but it was enough all over the place to soak up in the rugs and I had to basically move everything out clean the floors and get rid of those rugs and That just you know caused such a such a time waster thing I wish that I got some footage of the the drain or the the thing that looked like a fish tank and So that's That was the flood thing that had happened in the meantime I did pick up all the PCs and take them out even though they're suspended just to be safe All my power is suspended hanging from wall Studs, so there's nothing on the ground that was water that was in the water of any significance besides rugs like I said and So all that had happened I got all that cleaned up and I started to put things back together and In that process, of course, I wasn't able to do any streaming But I did put the streaming setup that I used to have Here I put it back together and it worked great for like a day and so I Opened it back up, which was probably dumb. I tried to do something inside of it and Hey, thanks for the super chat tour Christian Mo. Thank you very much says. Thank you So I took I don't know if you have a question make sure you tag me if there's a question that you had to go with that I'm sorry. I've been kind of rambling here. I don't see one, but if you do have one, please let me know so I I went and Started, you know, or I had reassembled the PC for this streaming setup I tested it and then I thought you know what I was doing I was trying to add some different hardware to it and in the process It just it's it killed the PC or it updated or something and the PC would not boot at all I did get a little bit of power, but no real boot response from it So it was a really cheap setup. Anyway, it was it didn't even have a GPU in it It was using really basic hardware to basic motherboard So I had to get a whole different setup so that's what I'm using now and I had to get Basically everything in this is new outside of the hard drive and the RAM. I'd had to go with a new tower motherboard New trip new cooler new graphics card. Now a lot of this stuff was used But it's a lot more powerful. So I'm testing it today. That's that's basically what I've done I had to go through all morning and this is the other crazy thing about this new streaming PC I got it all set up this very this or yesterday I finished building it yesterday and I put it together. I got it booted up. It was working great And then I got a Windows 11 update requirement or request I did it and then it wouldn't reboot. It was the craziest thing. It was a Windows reboot or it wouldn't get into Windows I had to actually go in and reinstall Windows and I didn't lose any personal files like videos or pictures and What I did lose though was every app that I had on the PC that I use like OBS Steam Deck All the audio software all my drivers for everything Whole slate was wiped completely clean all the way down to basic Windows plus my personal files So that was just crazy how That went down and I had to go through reinstall everything. I've been going through now Resetting up OBS. So hopefully everything sounds good. Looks pretty decent Things be seem to be going okay right now on the stream. So I just wanted to give you that update As far as any of the hardware in here, you know, it's all kind of a couple generations old But still very usable not like super old definitely more powerful than the last PC so hopefully in the long run all this would be better and Also after the flood I finally took out my own storage unit. I finally got a storage unit I posted a couple pictures about that on Twitter. So if you want to see those you can check that out. I know a person at Celery said I should have gone with Windows 10. I wish I could have I don't know what happened This one was one that just gosh it automatically updated one day. I didn't even want it to Hey Jake good to see you Jake good to see you race a Rony and So yeah, I did that I got a storage unit in town here. It's not a very big one, but it's enough to fill up I've already gotten Oh goodness, I think Like almost 15 CRTs in it. So that's cool. It gives me some space and I will have more space upstairs to work and get in bigger CRTs, which I do have some I mean, I've got some amazing stuff coming you guys this summer You're not gonna believe it finally things I don't really want to spoil a lot and So that's it storage unit. I will make a cool episode where we go check out that storage unit I'll show you what's in there sometime promise and And a couple more announcements first off I did also tweet out and put a notice other social media places that I will be at retro world expo this year So, yes, thank you to everybody who's been asking me and bugging me and kind of making me really want to go Again this year. I will be there. I will be driving up Friday and then be in there Saturday Saturday Sunday, I will be at the show a little bit and I'll take off and drive back to Virginia So I will see Anybody who is going to the retro world expo? I'll see you there in Connecticut and it's the last weekend in August So that's about Six seven eight weeks from now Yes, Raceroni, it is very it's a very nice. It's actually a brand new Storage units. It was a brand new building. It's from U-Haul. It's got state-of-the-art security I was actually really surprised state-of-the-art security it's a Climate-controlled it's got alarms built into it They're like for my unit not just the whole building but actually for the individual unit And like I said, it was brand new and it's not that expensive It's like $80 at the end of the day a month $80 per month us Hey, my retro fix Thanks for coming in koala koa. Hey, how you doing good to see here and Yeah, so I'm I'll show it to you. It's cool. See I got I got lucky there because they just came available so It's super awesome. It's got a drive in Garage with automatic doors, so I pull up I press a button the garage door comes up I go inside the building and then I open up my vehicle inside the climate-controlled building I go get a cart which is right beside that so the cart with CRTs go down the hallway and you literally go down the hallway and take the first left and my Unit is the very first unit there. That's why I really wanted to get it now when they were running promotional You know for setting up the new Stuff when they were running the promos. I wanted to get it Then and I also got great like I said a unit right at the big front Which is great because then I move stuff in and out They're really easy with having to go all the way back through a maze of the building or having to go up And it's like seven stories this building is and I'm only I got the base floor So it's like right next to this drive-in thing. It's perfect So that's exciting to me and again like I said retro world expo I will be there if anybody can make it there and wants to say hey, I'd be glad to talk to you I'll be falling around Bob most of the time. I'll be hanging out in the lobby of the Marriott when I'm not in The expo hall or eating somewhere. So I'm not If you Want to go see what happened last year you can check out a video I made on the channel not too long ago about what it was like to be there and The last thing I'll mention before we get into this is a stream I'm gonna be setting up to do a stream with our good buddy the 8-bit Esquire And we're gonna try to do that this weekend I will also try to get Lewis to record an episode of the cathode ray podcast This weekend, but there's been so much stuff going on between the two of us He's been starting a new business career with a new company So it's all It's all you know been just a crazy summer honestly and oh gear may hear me So the thank you for the five-dollar super chat storage was more expensive or harder to find So the funny thing was is the pricing was pretty much Same price no matter where I looked at It was all within $5 for the same size unit. This is the smallest unit temperature controlled I believe they call it five by five by like 12 feet tall is as tall as you could store inside this thing and So it's not a huge space. It's five by five by 12 But they were all like that every one of them and every one of them was between 80 to 85 dollars per month On the expenses. So then you have to start looking at the anemones and this new place was brand new the unit was right next to the door and The unit was right next to the door like I said all the good stuff about it That made that one easier to pick plus it's it was all funny enough They were all scattered around and they were the same distance from me every single one of them The only thing I would have done better on is if I get a bigger storage unit The prices were a little bit more varying on that. They would go from one like 10 115 dollar range all the way up to like a hundred and forty dollar range. So Good question Jay Russell retro gaming. Hey, are you doing Bob? Yes, RGB retro RGB Bob That's who we'll be hanging out with that's how I usually go hang out with down there and Let's hey, let's get started. Okay. Let's Enough talking about everything going on Thank you for being patient. We've gone 20 minutes into the stream Let's get switched over here and we're gonna talk about today's goodies and If you have any questions, I'll try to you know, I'll try to keep it on chat closely and If anything stops or like if there's any technical difficulties, let me know And I'll be paying attention to the chat as we get into this the way we can have a good experience But I've got a couple things to show you here. First off. I have a complete drive file of this S. Sony fw 900 and What it is is it's just an entire photo gallery of all the work I did to this CRT so I'm gonna go through all these photographs with you will go through you'll be able to see part numbers You'll be able to see all kind of things on these boards. I'm gonna go through how I made the cap kits here I actually have The documents I use to make these cap kits. They look a little crazy So I'm gonna explain my process here and We're gonna have some fun while we do it. We'll look at all these great pictures This is gonna be stuff where you'll get to see everything that happened to this CRT. I took I'm I think there's a couple hundred photographs here so This is all what was sent to the client. I actually don't own this CRT you saw Don honk I could mentioned him earlier in the chat. This was his CRT that's the one you see pictured on the thumbnail today, and that's the ones we're gonna be looking at We're gonna go ahead. I'm just gonna start in here with our first photograph and make sure that we've got our Everything lined up over there and things are looking good. Okay. We're ready to roll. All right So as I said, this is the back of the Sony FW 900 and what what an amazing piece of machinery now you've or you're seeing it already blown open and a lot of the shielding is removed We're specifically starting in Here at the deflection board Which if you're looking at the back of the CRT like we are that is to your right hand side and That's what's missing in this picture is the deflection board has been removed And if you look down here, you can see how this is connected You'll see some closer pictures of this, but it has ribbon cables. It has Connection cables it has screws it has shielding mounts and all kinds of good goodies here so Here's just a look at this tube if you ever have a Question about the tube model number. This is your model number, right? Okay That's it M57 LRX 15x and this is a tube that will match or go into a a series 24 inch BVM or D series 24 inch BVM. So if you have a good tube from any of those three monitors It's interchangeable Here is the deflection card now I'm gonna get this question. I have a full episode with video of me actually working on this That is in the works. It's not completed because I Still have to adjust the set and things and use the windows and film some more so that process is still ongoing today But this kind of photo gallery thing will not be done in that video. Okay, this is different So you're not gonna be we're not gonna be redundant But we're gonna go through some of these things but as you notice this has our anode cap right here Which you do have to disconnect the anode cap and this portion right here This actually connects into your neck board. So you have to carefully It's part of the CRT neck socket You have to carefully release that from the neck board and get it out also To get out the the board itself And that this is the restoration project on just the deflection card to start here. Okay, so this is I've pulled it here I've recorded the capacitors for What's on this board and that's what you see under it right there? Let me show you here If I go over here to the desktop camera now look I know I spilt I Spilt rubbing alcohol when I was cleaning the boards on on this paper So it looks like some kind of cheesy art that I made but what I've done here is I've gone and I found the service manual for the Sony FW 900 which is readily available online and Then I've gone to the very back where it has the parts list Okay, and this is I've gone to the section for the D board and if you look over here This is the capacitor section now. This is a blurry mess But the ones that I marked off originally that you could see clearly back here on the picture the ones that I've left blank are the listed electrolytic capacitors that are on the board and So I've referred that to this list You know, I referred that list. I printed it out. I got just the capacitors I need to change on there and then I went and I removed every capacitor on this board and As I removed each one I confirmed that it was what it was marked on in The service manual, okay So here's some more photographs of these old capacitors More old capacitors. There was quite a few on some of these boards. Some didn't have as many Deflection card of course has a lot You'll also notice large heat sinks on this board. Here's another look at that neck connector Just some more documentation of the board now. This is what it looks like with the capacitors removed and cleaned and What I will note to you is on this board. You'll notice these large areas on the printed circuit board that are Copper plates and it's a ground plate So sometimes it takes a lot of heat to get that solder moit molten sorry solder molten and Suck it out of those holes with the FR 300 or 301 from HACO So that's just one warning. You have to be very careful. It takes a lot of Precision in here. So that's just a section That's a section that you saw capacitors in earlier now. They've been removed again the other section there and This is what the bottom of the board looks like after removing all those capacitors Here is a good photograph of all the old capacitors These were all removed and the one thing I will note is There's a big mix of brands in here everything from jammie con to nishi con rubicon Panasonic Elna all of them in here There also was a difference in quality some of them were 85 degree I always try to go a hundred and five degree out of replacements, but you sometimes have to mix brands. That's fine I use high quality worth Capacitors here and some rubicons and nishi cons in there and All these met or exceeded The quality standards, but that's what it looks like. I just installed all those capacitors after removing all them Here's just some photographs of the after-job and it just looks really nice. You know cleaned up I've had that Interesting question, you know because I figured eventually this would come up because people is like why do you use worth? electronics and rule Rubicon I want you to stick to nishi con really a lot of this has to do with parts shortages When it was difficult to find parts, but Worth seems to have very good stock in the United States Also, I researched worth and they had quality standards that seem to be Really good as far as anything else now. They're just different. It's like different names, right as long as it's not a Real crap quality fake capacitor You know made in China. That's like counterfeit Everything's okay as long as it's one of the high qualities from a good vendor you could go read like the data sheets on how these test out and Ripple currents and get really into it if you want to But you'll notice see even right here. I've got worth and rubicon and it really just depends on the application so there's not But even still if I replace any 25 year old lower 85 degree nishi con with a higher ed premium worth electronic worth electric You know, you're still getting a better Yeah Sometimes on some of these parts you got to take what you can get and then when you have them here in the shop You're gonna use them. So that's kind of the scenario here Right just some more pictures of the but I believe in all the good brands That's what I'm saying. I had to get away from just the part shortage made me get away from just be focused It's just to be focused on nishi con and Rubicon only so That's really the truth more pictures of the finished product Really had to go in there and just clean up. I also like to go through and make sure especially on a monitor of this Magnitude and board of this quality Just check the other components as you're working in here Make sure everything's got some nice room some of these resistors and and things can bend over and a lot of times They're probably safe But if something bends over like down here and grounds out that could cause issues So you want to be careful make sure before you reconnect to the board that you've done all that we're just to look at the bottom side of the board and Proof that I use a grounding strap that's flipped over at that point. So that's not good, but It's there. I also go through and I reflow solder on lots of parts under here Just to make sure that there's no issues in the future And I'm mostly talking about like these points right here where you have ICs and things like that and So that's that's something that you might need to do on your boards It's just a closer look at the capacitor and how the board looks after I do it. I like to clean it up You know right after that after getting everything done more pictures of just the capacitor replacements afterwards and A look at a lot of the places like the thing about This monitor I wanted to show specifically is you have You have capacitors that end up, you know, having small surface mount components either in between them like up here, right? see this and Next to that is another one right there So you have to be very careful Because you could easily heat this up too much and disturb this capacitor over here. So that's why You know these have to be these have to be carefully done and and you have to take your time if you're actually going to work on these boards Alright, there it is reseeded in the shielding. We're about to be done with the deflection card here And there we have a test shot of it afterwards. I always recommend when working on Extremely large CRTs like this with a lot of boards in them that You test your boards every time you can individually after you work on each one Because what can happen is you could damage something and then you wouldn't know which board you had actually caused the issue from You're just a picture of that board reinstalled there And the board reinstalled here afterwards And you can tell the heat sinks on here. They they go through the whole board So this heat sinks actually tie into the shielding and then that comes over here into this shielding Which ultimately taps into the shielding here to try to make this a giant heat heat dispersement Because there's no active cooling going on in here as far as fans or anything It's all going to be passively done through heat sinks And then wind or air going through the vent holes on the sides of the CRT And that's actually the bit last photo on that particular board But do not fear because we have more boards to look at Let's go here to the neck board So this is another board I would consider one of the vital boards And you know when you're working on these things You can start with certain boards to work on because they're the outer boards You will have to move and remove this board, this neck board to actually get to the D board So if I were recommending anything, I would recommend that you work your way Almost backwards from what we're doing here I started with the power supply and then I went to this neck board And then there's the power supply and then there's the power supply I started with the power supply and then I went to this neck board And then there's a couple neck boards behind this board And then I actually finished with the deflection card So we're going from my last to my first almost here So this is our neck board and it's actually broken off And you have a secondary board where the neck socket is right there CRT socket goes into there, it's got some breakout cables over here That goes to this other board And then this other board is the A board And that's the board with the capacitors in it that you need to change And you notice you need to disconnect this main screw right here To get this board off You'll have to take some of the shielding with it So there's another, there's a heat sink over here That has a screw hiding in there, you need to get that out And then you probably will have to No, you don't have to get this bottom one out here yet Which you can And then you need to make sure all the screws underneath this input tray are disconnected So it's got a lot of process you can look at There's a closer look at this first ribbon cable So you want to check that, make sure that's all good There's another connection point here And see that's how you remove that screw, see how that heat sink has Thermal paste right up next to the main board And you'll also notice A nasty build up on the inside of the CRT And this one was actually owned by a smoker, unfortunately One day Or at some point And there's a lot of this built up soot inside of here So there's extra cleaning I had to do also on this set But that's, see that's a look at that neck socket right there See, so what you have to do is You release this input board And then, or I'm sorry, it's got the inputs on the bottom also But input slash neck board, you remove this And then you can disconnect that center portion From the neck socket right there By releasing these two tabs right here And you get that pulled free like that And really you have to remove this shielding So you can slip that thing in that hole right there So you can get it out and get your collection board out So it's not, it's not again You've got to go through certain processes You have to be really patient working on this So there's the board removed And that's pre-servicing There's another one of me taking and making All the capacitor kit right there Or the, let's see it's the A board on this one And so I did the same thing where I went through And I'm going to mention this one time When it comes up it's going to be important But we're going, sorry I was checking out something here Making sure everything was good Okay So I've gone through here and again made this Cap kit for this board You'll notice that there's something to zoom in here That I couldn't show you a good picture of There's this connection point right here Which you have to disconnect this connection point And of course this one opposite side of it But this connection point right here goes to the B and C connectors On the bottom plate of the input board And this is your VGA connector right here And there's mounting screws that you need to remove here To remove it from the back plate So that's just some notes on the neck board here Closer look at the neck board This is after removing the capacitors You can tell the capacitors are gone And more capacitors are gone This is a chunk of the area where we removed the capacitors Cleaned up Again more capacitors being removed And we make sure that there's plenty of thermal paste on there That needs to be You don't have to add excessive ones If you've got it off there And there's still some on there you're fine But here's just the bottom side And this is what again when I was talking about This is a great example of You really have to be highly you know Skilled at soldering welding With these soldering irons to be able to pull these Capacitors and not cause any trouble for yourself Like look at We've got a surface mount in between Every one of these capacitors over here And a resistor attached to every single line there And it doesn't take a lot to knock that off Or put too much heat on there It's a tricky board Hey Samuel G Good to see you today And Bill D Thanks for coming in Very stressful But that's how you do it Get every cap out of there There's the new capacitors And I'm just looking over I'm gonna review some of these sheets as we go through them As I said this is the A board What you'll notice is Occasionally Let's look over here at our desktop real quickly So I've got a printout here again of the A board If you look down here at the capacitor section There's only two capacitors down here that are Electrolytic 25 volt 47 uf electrolytic That's the only standard you get But as I said I went through the list here Marked off If it's got a squiggly line through it Or a squiggly line like that That means it's ceramic, mylar Other types Non-electrolytic capacitors So they're not being changed The reason I'm showing you this is because Sometimes the values actually differ And Not on the A board though That actually matched Matched that Manual In the back just like the D board So those two boards have not Had any difference Between them And the board So there again a mix of capacitor brands All installed Cleaned up And again Just a closer look at a lot of these capacitors This is another board You want to reflow solder on Especially up here On your neck board and your connection points And resistors That are That are in main lines You might even have transistors It depends on the condition Of the solder on the board But that's something to be aware of But this is our final picture from this board And that's that same section I showed you Before where we had all those capacitors Removed Where I told you it was stressful You still have, then you have to go back in Reflow And install the new capacitors And come in here and clean All your Solder Core Flux that comes out from The actual Ross and core solder that you use Which I use, leaded solder It's best stuff, little bit lead in it Ross and core And then you can get welds like this So that's how you get That's how you achieve that is through practice And Patience, learning your tools And that's kind of like Master high level Crap you're going to run into in a CRT like this Other CRTs you will Older CRTs you won't see stuff like this You'll be lucky if you have a board that has just components On one side only Alright, that's really it for the neck board Not much to that one Compared to the other board Let's go to the power supply This is a fun one, look at this This is a good picture that shows you some more of that dust buildup I was talking about Right, see that That's a mix of dust And Cigarette Exhale smoke Secondhand smoke That's That's real disgusting Stunk too, you can see it's It's hazy over here on the back of this tube also There's more of that That was all over the boards This is the power supply, this is where I recommend you start Because it's easiest to pull out On its own You don't have to remove any of the other boards to get it out So you can do it first And fix it first So you pull that one, it's just got a couple connection points In here about through four Unscrew it And remove The board, that's the other side of the tube You can see again, like all this Nasty Haze of cigarette Smoke Just Inside the CRT Another look at the side there And there's the board pulled With some lovely CRTs behind it I think I had picked this picture to try to make A live stream A thumbnail When I was going to try to live stream, we actually Recap in the boards But that all happened while the flood happened So that was not anything Of use So on this board we have bigger capacitors Some really odd capacitors So You have to be mindful of that You just look at the power board Give these really high Filter, high Size, high Specific, we're going to take a close look at that cap When I remove it because it was kind of a tricky one But here's a picture of all the other smaller caps Removed The G board is what we're looking at here And I'm going to actually get the documents Yes, the G board is next, so that's good On our list Because there's some things that have to be different on this I know it Here's the board It's gotten the capacitors removed right there You can see Some photographs of that And fully recapped The other sections Of the board with all the capacitors removed And you will find Occasionally Like this was work that was done here Probably in the factory after assembly Or post assembly But you'll often find just one or two spots On some boards where it looks really nasty A lot of flux left over And generally Three to four times as much solder as you would normally need So when I see this I generally remove that old solder and clean that up And try to clean up those welds As well as clean up the board From that residue There's just another picture Of all those points In one photograph You can see all the Different Points of solder removed And the capacitors are all gone Save our big one That's the one that is still On the board at this moment But There are all the rest of the Capacitors removed And there's the big one And I wanted to show this one on its own Because you can tell it's not A straight Line So you do have to get a specific Style of capacitor Where you have a right degree Term for your leg Right there So it's pretty important If you're going to replace that capacitor Now a lot of times you don't have to replace This specific one But anyway we were removing them all There you go And there you go New capacitors in New capacitors in In In Mix of brands Now this one is another one I would go around and recommend Reflowing solder Especially on these Points like this Use these transistors Also a good idea to do it On the transformers Right there Okay See that there And then I like to do the connection points also And That's really How you get that done You have to clean it afterwards There's the G board Now let's, before we go put that in I did want to mention Interesting things on the G board Cap list So again I will be making a cap kit That I'll be publishing with the video Or this for Patreon members They can look at that and do whatever they want to With it as far as Making their own cap kit for it Using it in their own CRTs But if you look here Same style sheet I've gone And on 25 electrolytic capacitors There was C680 It's listed as .0068 Farads 10 volts Well that's just 6800 Micro farads So I just wanted you to know That's what's actually on the board And this one, so here's something interesting Look at this If you do run it This is why you always have to refer this board Or your board to these lists Because sometimes there's revisions To your board parts are different Specifically when I got onto the G board Over here to C685 In the manual it lists as A 10 volt 100 You can see I've marked out there A 10 volt 100 Micro farad capacitor But in actuality On the board there was a 10 volt To 20 micro farad capacitors And that's what I changed it to Whatever was on the board Not what was on The manual Because again this is apparently a revision That's not on the main manual And it wasn't as if someone had gone In and replaced this specific capacitor To this value This was done in the factory It was the same factory capacitor It was just different from the manual listing Oh hey Don welcome back Hey James Boone welcome in Andres Gunners son Yeah there were a bunch of capacitors That were actually out of spec That doesn't That didn't really translate to much as far as Knowing the difference This was a specifically Preventive maintenance job But that was something I noted on the Manual and it made me scratch my head Because I checked it like 25 times As I was doing it just to make sure everything was good So that's That's the listing With the G board and that's how I got to the point With that capacitor Hey overclock wise welcome in And So here's the board Reinstalled And again this was the first one I did That's why the rest of these still look dirty So we're going backwards as in my pictures here This one's super clean That's for a test And I love Testing the Sega Dreamcast With this set Of many of these VGA sets Especially now since you have a We have a copy of the 240p test suite Available for it You know Of course it's intimidating Because you're always nervous Even when you know you've done the work right That what if something happens when you plug it back in So I can't say that Anytime that a monitor really is worth more Than Anytime you get over a 20 inch UVM anymore Especially something that's hard to replace It's really really Yeah it's intimidating and it's just part of the job But it definitely can be Alright That's our look into The neck board Let's look at a couple of smaller boards now Alright so This one's the end board I think we should go to the S board first We go back here When I told you that Those are the three primary boards right That we've looked at so far That being power supply Deflection card Main neck board input board there On the back But if you remove the shielding some more You'll find out That there are secret boards Underneath Underneath And buried You have to get this back played out carefully Carefully again You have some Array of cables there There's a look at the CRT Socket on the tube Really nice and clean But if we look down here We'll notice there's a connection cable right here We need to disconnect We have A Yup I took a picture of it You have another cable here to disconnect A Lovely Ribbon cable And Once you get all those ribbon cables disconnected I was documenting where some other cables went This cable goes into that End board that's hidden under there So those two boards They definitely need to be Serviced They're important boards This S board and that end board So this is the S board A lot of lower end capacitors On this board A lot of 85 degree capacitors This is a big logic Board That big chip in the middle There's all the capacitors that were removed And it looks like again We have a Look at this It's there You see I started Let me check my notes We'll double check it List For the S board Yup right here And this My friends is why you have to take the extra time To look at this And not just order the caps off this list Remove the caps on your board And then go back and just fill Whatever's on this list in Without double checking everything Always double check everything Because when we get down here to C3046 It was actually A 50 volt 22 microfarad And originally It was A 10 microfarad capacitor You see that right there 50 volt 10 as opposed to What it was on the main board was actually 5022 5022 So yeah that's like That's why you gotta be careful Let's see if we can find C3046 It's not gonna be able to see that on that Board but We can get all the capacitors removed There's some inside this heat sink tunnel Called it the heat sink tunnel And I'll give you a shot there There were actually capacitors in there I think I show a good picture of this Once they're added Again this board has small Parts That's it stop it There we go There's all our replacements All higher quality There you go Let's see how there's all those capacitors inside that tunnel Lots of them in there Again this is a general maintenance job Or not general you know Big time maintenance job This is like once every 20 year maintenance job 10 years I mean you shouldn't have to do this again For a long time Unless you're running it non stop Should last a few thousand hours easily That's it For our Board right here This is the most Stressful part Because you really have to do All three of these boards The end board, the S board and the neck board You have to do all those kind of at the same time And then when you do them Of course it's nerve wrecking Because You don't get to test them It's hard to put it back together So you have to wait to put it back together And then you have to finish those three boards And test it kind of at once Good questions Thank you everybody for coming in today We're having fun I hope you guys are enjoying this I know it's a little bit different But we're taking a special look at this Since I wasn't able to bring you The live stream Of repairing And doing these capacitor replacements On these boards So I just realized I left Cut it off for the rest of the show And Stop all that Because I don't know how that sounds And I hope it didn't Some people don't like the background music As much Alright So this is what we're looking at now We've removed both the neck board And that board we just looked at Which was our S board They're out of the way And we need to deal with this last board Down in the bottom Underneath everything With all these Ribbon cables All the ribbon cables Like Another reason I go in and take these kind of photographs Is so if I have to know How this was originally put together I want to know what it looked like I want to know the Way all these cables were bent I wish Copy it free I paid for a copyright license For all the cheesy background music you hear The epidemic sound $15 a month Good money spent So yeah you can see in there again This is where I've got all that film That I'm putting my finger in All down there And again Lots of ribbon cables This goes into the deflection card Over into this board This board is like the heart This is like the central nervous system Of this FW900 This board down here Everything goes to it Everything And then it all breaks out from there So that's where everything is being All the information Super highways going through this board right here And it has the most capacitors And while they are Rubicon, Nishicon There's some Jametcons in there Dylons I don't know There's all kinds of different ones on this board But the 90% on this board are 85 You can see it right there It's blurry But it says 85 degrees on it So we can go in here And replace it With wonderful better capacitors But again lots of photos So I can see how all these cables go in Properly And I don't want to mess anything up Ribbon cable, there's even one in the front Stuff to the power supply See there's the front one Look at that Definitely one of the more strenuous boards to pull And service And there we go All the caps are moved Lots of caps on this board Lots of them I mean this said the most I think it almost said 40 caps And if we look at the list Everyone Is here for C C062 A 100 microfarad 25 Volt capacitors what's listed here What was actually on the board A 10 volt 10 volt 470 Microfarad That's ridiculous So much different in that capacitor So that's One of the reasons I really Felt compelled to just come in here In the stream and share This information I haven't hidden anything I've shown you every single cap List here that Is different from what it says On the monitor so I just want you to know that Okay But here's this lovely Board you got these I don't even know I think this is like a Weird Looks like an inductor that Sony's built Like a custom inductor This on an IC platform And you got This proprietary chip Lots of Lots of capacitors just Look at the numbers of them Almost all capacitors This board and logic chips Couple resistors And That's pretty much it you know crystals Oh man my retro fix that sounds awful That sounds terrible Yeah you know We're getting to this point now Where if there is a fault In these original capacitors You'll see it and Like We're getting to the age now and NECs Are notorious for this They have these surface mount capacitors Those are going to start to fail on us And that's going to become More and more important is to get rid of Those surface mount capacitors Yes Yes master safer P111110 Yes this is very similar to that I think that's like the Dell you know 4x3 version of kind of this This CRT Here's another look at the Capacitors removed on that board close look at that Chip you've also got this interesting chip here That was flashed I think You know and So the problem is if you ever have a trouble With any of these chips good luck finding anything You may be able to get lucky and call Sony And they'll have one somewhere In a basement But most likely it's all gone Again we're running into A common theme on these boards lots Of parts on both sides So you have to be very careful All that I mean Just like You can't put heat on these pads Too long you'll burn them up too So it takes a close touch There's all the old capacitors Old capacitors right there We'll look at some of them Maybe I'll get a picture where we can see that Yep see 85 degrees right there Rubicon, Rubicon Most of those are Rubicon right there I accept these blue ones are a different one It's like Lelon or something And then these silvers Those are actually in the back Those are Nishikon and I can't remember it's like International Chemical Company or something And there we go replacement Everything back in Some parts There we go Back on the back of the board Yes that's the Gamers Nexus mat That's what I use here if you look over Just a quick look over at the desktop Cam I have this mod mat And they actually have a new Soldering mat that I actually want to get But it's kind of plain Maybe it'll look better on the streams I also have the huge PC builder Mat on another table that I work on sometimes Because it's just such a great Great mat Alright this is going to be kind of getting close To the end of these slides But we're you know I'm just showing You know kind of what this stuff looks like Afterwards I like to clean it all up I like to fix welds that were left nasty And I like to remove all the Unnecessary Flux residue And I want to make sure that Like if somebody has to come back here and do that again Somebody wants to come back here And do this again in a couple Decades their ability To do so is still preserved That's another thing to think about Some of this hardware you get in and you realize You can only recap it like once because it'll fall apart But if it's something like this Mind void I was asking a question about low TVs And storage is that bad for caps If it's high heat Extreme cold If it's pretty well temperature maintained You should be fine for storage Oh somebody was asking about Reset and service menus I really don't recommend doing that You could end up with more trouble Sometimes Your best bet would be to Try to find the monitor Or the CRT manual specifically For that and see what the factory Settings are In On the set Because sometimes you can change it And the factory might put it in a different region A literally different region Like I've seen somebody set Have it in one language And then you do a factory reset And it changes everything to a different language And causes other issues Where It's actually changing the hardware To sometimes go to a different video signal So you have no way to correct it So I would highly recommend Before trying to Completely reset it that you go in You google And search for that specific Model you're looking for And even if you have to pay three or four dollars For a manual That's the don't get the Don't get the Don't get the user manual Get the service manual That will have the better information In it. Alright there's the Finished board again everybody And that's the last of the pictures For that board and that My friends maybe Whoops that looks Like that was the end of our Let me make sure That Is it And we'll just go in here and pull back up The file and Deflection Neck board power supply other boards Yup that's everything we went through it all Okay So What I can do now is Just Hang out here for another minute I've again got Some other things planned For the week As far as streams I hope to do a couple streams this weekend I'll also say that This has been one of the coolest fun toys I've gotten recently From Friend Don Honk Who is the owner again of this monitor The longest screwdriver I have And It's a lot of fun To use. You need it on a CRT Like this where you have to go a long way But it's almost like you play almost pool with this thing Harry Potter one But it's just an ESD safe Oops ESD safe screwdriver That is literally A 12 inch It's got a 12 inch extension on it One foot So Lots of fun, very helpful For fun when I'll put an Amazon link To it somewhere, talk about it Sometime, but really have been Enjoying this on other CRTs also Thank you James If anybody has any questions about what I've gone over I don't mind going back over something If you want to look at something again I don't know That again I want to reiterate that The big announcements are We'll have a new video It's already set to come out tomorrow So if you're hanging out here and you want to help out Again hit a like on this video Then when we're done here Just click a like On the premiere For the other Video for me and I will I will definitely be in the chat For that video tomorrow For a 22 minute video So it's not short Hey, thank you for the $5 Super Chat Demon 20 child So I have a Excuse me I have the Sony KV 13 FS100 on the left side Of the screen it's stretched There's not a setting in the service menu Where do I look for To adjust it So If it's just It depends how much out Because it could be a couple things Depends how much out On the side it is Sometimes when you get an expanded side Like that You'll have The yoke could be Moved and actually aiming A little bit off on one edge And beaming the geometry out All to the side So that can happen I would also say If you get into the service menu And you can't Get it to adjust Horizontal Yeah You should Well first off if you go to the horizontal settings And change it does it actually change the setting If you change like horizontal phase Or If it says H center Does it actually move Or does the one side just not move at all So if you don't get any movement in those It's probably a capacitor issue So you need to get the board where looked at Beforehand Otherwise I would think it would be That also a possibility that P.O.17 mentioned Could be a linearity issue Where the linearity capacitors are bad So you could try linearity adjustment too But I'd try to see If you can move it horizontally to the center And also that horizontal Size if you expand it And it's only moving on one side That would tell me that Part of there's problems somewhere in that Circuit Like that horizontal circuit So I would suggest Checking out that Horizontal circuit And yeah if the yoke moves at all It can mess up a lot of things So if you open up the set If it was moved If it was shipped at all Hey James thank you for the $10 Super Chat Just showing support for the channel Have a great week, thank you James I appreciate it Show favorite He's always here, thank you for coming in Thank you a lot of you guys are always here And I really appreciate your Continuing Support and watching of the channel And everything Like I said hopefully Once Man it's just so hard to continue To guarantee I can be back As long as all this computers And everything plays nicely I will be back in the studio As soon as Tomorrow night because it's already Thursday I've got I've been talking to Keith Rainey about doing some Calibration stream With him again a more depth In depth one And also Like I said 8-bit Esquire we're going to do a stream Soon whenever he's allowed to get over And get free And stream work We're going to check that out With him because he's been doing a lot of content And So we'll Get together all that Oh that's an EU model Yeah see I would just read If there's Look in the manual should tell you How to do a factory reset And see usually in a manual When it says How to do it Standard readings but doesn't always You're right Thanks glad a lot of people really enjoyed This I know it was a little bit different Just slides and let me actually work on something I do have One of the next slide or Once I get caught up with finishing The two Actually I have three in here right now They're pretty much just adjustment only Got the FW900 Then I'll do a stream with One of the monitors So I'm unboxing of the four In tomorrow's new video It needs a lot of work A lot of repairs So that's a perfect one to live stream And I'm excited to do that one Yeah Brian thank you It's been a while I know right The show was going twice sometimes three times a week And then we had Technical difficulties Weather difficulties And sometimes you just get like over the holidays And it's like well I guess I'll just come back After the holidays And Get back to it But it'll be okay Sometimes it's good to make sure everything's working And back to good Alright guys we're going Just over an hour Just want to say thank you again Everybody who's shown up today participated But a lot of great questions A lot of great feedback And especially thank you to anybody On today's stream Those donations do help out the channel a lot And also thank you Everybody who checks out Patreon And supports the channel that way If you do have any other needs that are deeper Than what you see here publicly That's really the best place to get it That's the best place to get one on one contact with me If you need it we also have a large community Over on Discord That is exclusive for Patreon members And I also post there Things that don't normally show up On YouTube or any other social media platforms So it's all exclusive things there Also cap kits are there So anyway thank you again everybody I will see you soon because I'm going to try to keep this I might not even turn the streaming PC off until I'm guaranteed Confident that it will It will work Again if you haven't please drop me a like on your way out And guys I'll see you next time You have a wonderful rest of the week And hopefully it'll be a lot Sooner I guarantee It will be, much sooner than it was last time Because the release got to release tomorrow