 Welcome back friends. It's the holiday season and I have a special video for you today. We'll be part 2 of our top 10 CRT repairs for this year. I'll be showing some clips that include never before seen footage and I've got some fresh edits for you. Hey, and as a bonus I'm throwing in a sixth monitor repair in this video now sit back and relax with me and Brutus as we celebrate the end of 2020 and Merry Christmas. Let's kick things off today with the Sony PVM 2030 professional video monitor This is an awesome example of an early professional CRT and the Art Deco Cube format is still desired by many Artists as well as museums around the world. You'll run into issues where components will fail out in this monitor Now a good thing is is the main deflection board is pretty easy to service. It's on the side. This particular repair was quite tricky I had to rebuild a couple of traces that have been destroyed by past repair attempts So I had to rebuild a lot of traces by adding jumper wires and also using the legs of capacitors and other components to rebuild some of those paths for the electricity to flow Since I had the monitor torn apart already. I went ahead and also serviced the power supply on this unit It's really difficult to get to the power supply inside of the monitor if you don't already have things like the input board off and Other boards out of the way Again, it's a very desirable monitor. It has a built-in stereo audio system. It also supports a remote control This display is a true 20 inches in diagonal length So it's one inch larger than most of the other 20 inch monitors The resolution is 160 TV lines. The monitor does not support component only RGB, S video and composite It's a great option, but you have to remember this one does require internal Calibration and since it's one of the earlier PVMs it often needs servicing Let's take a look at everybody's favorite knockoff Sony PVM. That's the Olympus OEV series. Now look It's not really a knockoff PVM. Everything internally is identical to the Sony PVM M2M DU series of monitors So it has 600 TV lines of resolution and it supports analog video in the format of 240p and 480i You're gonna find support for BNC, S video, Component, composite and RGB with sync. It pretty much accepts every type of sync on this monitor Now again since this is an identical monitor to that M series It does have the same circuit boards inside of it and because of that It does suffer from the red green blue line issue that is due to the vertical blanking line Having capacitors that are not properly designed with the right voltage and capacitance to last long enough Inside the monitor and that causes those red green and blue lines to droop into the viewing area So you need to at least check in to getting those two capacitors checked out that do cause that issue Or you'll have a screen with red green and blue lines in it and then you over correct that in the vertical blanking setting And eventually your whole monitor goes kaput and pops out and you lose multiple circuits along that Vertical blanking line because eventually those capacitors just fail out and cause spikes and voltage thus damaging your priceless Olympus OEV Oh, yeah, and Olympus monitors tend to sell for a little bit less on eBay So I'm just guessing that people don't know To look for them as much as they do to look for Sony PVM M2MDU monitors Moving on Here was a fun repair. This was the 8041Q PVM now this line of PVM suffers from some common issues and they're all mostly related to the age and The size of the PVM since they're so small and compact a lot of the boards are right next to each other And the solder on the PCBs that was used does not appear to be the best quality for that time period It can be common to have things like cold solder joists develop on a lot of these PCBs inside this monitor this PVM needed the color board completely re-soldered the problem was as you would turn this monitor on for a Couple of minutes and it would be working normally and all the sudden the color would go out and you go to black and white so if you have a Situation like that where all the sudden you'll lose color or you may not be able to get color to begin with There's a possibility that you have a cold solder joint somewhere on your color processing board Inside the monitor and that can affect all the 804 series Now look every time I talk about these eight-inch monitors I get the same reply in the comments Oh, who would really want to pay this much money to play on an eight-inch screen? You know this are probably the same people that are watching this repair video on a device or a phone With a screen smaller than the eight-inch screen on these monitors people play games on things like Nintendo switches Which their screen is not much bigger than an eight-inch screen So hey if all you got is space for an eight-inch screen or smaller Don't let that inhibit you from not having a great high-quality PVM All right now We're back with our second half of the eight-inch monitor highlight and this is a zero four four cue now This one also suffers from some common issues that does happen with some of these PVMs, especially the ones that have higher hours One of the more common things is the power supply will go dead and you won't have any AC power sometimes you can still get DC current into the monitor and Tested and run it that way another thing that can happen besides that power supply going bad is the two Can burn out on these Especially if it again has over 30 40,000 hours on it most of these were made in the early to mid 90s So it's always something that's worth checking out on these little beautiful tiny Trinich on screens. I Mean did I mention I really like these things because I do they're they're great I mean you can test every console on them and they can be Toted around to your best friend's house. Now. Let's talk about the biggest PVM I worked on in 2020 that being the mighty Sony PVM 3230 professional CRT monitor this monitor will not only test the strength of your retinas But also your back so never attempt to lift something this large by yourself always bring a friend All right, I'll tell you an interesting story about this monitor It came to me from Eric Eric drove the monitor to me from the East Coast and made me a bargain if I could get the 3230 to work and look pretty good again, and he would trade me two or three left over 2530 monitors, which I've been trying to get to work Properly for oh about two or three months now But I agreed to that trade because Eric had come into this large lot of very big CRTs By responding locally I believe to either Craigslist or offer up Eric found the listing for the PVMs and then went and picked them up from their owner while they were being stored at the owner's ex-in-laws and They wanted them off their farm property and they needed them gone ASAP so Eric picked them up I think there was a total of six or seven twenty five thirties and then this thirty two thirty and one of the scariest parts of this entire repair was when I finally took the shell off the monitor and realized how many spiders We're not only living inside of it, but we're living under it This is an Unbelievable sight. It's just disgusting and there's definitely a chance that I've could have been bitten Hundreds of times in my poor buddy Brutus. We can't have that now. So these spiders had to go I had to exterminate them and Clean the shell off, but afterwards the monitor looked perfect I did have to go through and fully service some of the boards on this monitor and then of course recalibrate after Recapping and rebuilding some traces in some troubled areas All right, you guys know there's only one Software I primarily used to calibrate all my CRTs and analog displays and that of course is the 240p test suite developed by MD Fourier and my friend our team EO They have a wonderful website. I'll put a link in the description Definitely go check that out if you need the software, which you all do need it Now this monitor should come with a disclaimer warning because it's pretty awesome 240p gaming on a display this large is prone to cause eye-bleeding and possibly even pant wedding But that's really only my personal experiences with this glorious CRT So now you want the best, huh? Well, you got it. The Sony pvm 20l5 is at the top of the professional video monitor food chain. There really aren't that many better options in a CRT You'd have to move up to something in the Sony pvm line or one of the other multi-format CRTs made by JVC NEC Ikegami or Panasonic this CRT belongs to Corey from my life in gaming and he wanted to get it fully serviced so I took it apart and Initially started working on the deflection board the small board you see here is the deflection board This is one of the boards that can need servicing if you have an issue in your pvm Now save-on pat does sell a cap kit for this monitor on eBay But you can also go in the back of the service manual and get a cap list and just replace everyone on this board However, I would only recommend you do that in extreme cases where your monitor is not working at all One of the biggest problems with the Sony pvm 20l5 is that it doesn't easily Expel dust and build up from inside of it So that tends to build up at the bottom of the monitor and on top of a lot of vital circuit boards And then what can happen over time is that can cause heat to build up? Higher than it should be because the dust will act as an insulator But it also can cause shorts to happen Corey's pvm came from what I believe was like a broadcast environment And he and another friend were able to get a set of 20l5 However, his friends shorted out after a year of use and after talking to Corey We kind of figured that maybe it was because he had never opened his up and serviced it This is a great example of this problem where the dust cannot be easily removed on its own so it builds up inside the monitor and needs to be cleaned out and Hopefully you can do that before it causes any damage to your circuit boards inside Now the pvm 20l5 is a performance animal It's up there with the bvm's yet It takes up a lot less size in its smaller form factor It also includes a built-in mono speaker, which is great for you know listening to things in mono Another positive for the 20l5 is that you don't need any expensive input cards to get video signals into the CRT It does have an expansion slot on the back of the monitor So you do have an option to add an additional video input card for more video input support This is one of the highest end CRTs that you just buy Get it serviced and then keep it and you don't really need another main monitor in your setup Most likely for a CRT unless you get an opportunity to upgrade to something like maybe a D24 or one of the 32 inch CRTs or even one of the other XM NEC options this can be your main monitor It's so versatile because it can go from 240p and analog and it processes that wonderfully all the way up to 1080i Giving you the freedom to hook up even the most modern consoles and video devices to your CRT There you have it. Those were my favorite 11 CRT repairs for 2020 Thanks for watching and now to move on to 2021 and even more CRT