Rodotron 666

[Retroman839]

Got this 29” Rodotron on the shelf …
A bout time I took it to the bench.

Dusty chasiss
Will update with pics once it’s on the bench.

Other than the fuses Anything I would want to check out on the chassis before I power up on these well known for being flaky Chinese chassis ?

It’s a curved 29” type ..
I think off top of my head it might be a pentranic tube

 

[FinalFight]

I just got another monitor with one of these 666 chassis but its iirc PF at the end (it's from a flat Philips tube) I noticed the yellow silicone type glue they use you know on some of the parts it had gone brown and had rusted parts around it weirdly the rest of the chassis looked quite new

 

[FinalFight]

Here's a pic from were I had to scrape it away it's actually rusted a link away completely

 

[FinalFight]

Here's what it normally looks like on one of my other ones..
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[FinalFight]

So yeah keep eye out for rotted away glue😆

 

[kingtreelo]

i'm not going to lie, i thought someone was trying to fix a Robotron machine and nearly joked about a temu version of it

 

[Retroman839]

So yeah keep eye out for rotted away glue😆

Cheers I will look at that …

 

[Retroman839]

I know these are prone to over heat …

I fan is recommended I think onto kneck card

 

[Retroman839]

I have a spare nos chasiss that I have fully reflowed …
But again nervouse to power it up

 

[Retroman839]

I will reflow the chasiss I got get some decent photos and give good inspection before power up

Will try to get it on bench tomo

 

[FinalFight]

Yeah they mention fans to keep them cool and known for bad solder also very sensitive when switching, I need to send mine to Grant at some point.. I feel like giving up some days with monitors.. It used to be pcbs now every machine turns up with a faulty or dead monitor 🤣

 

[Retroman839]

Standerd.



Guy I got mine off actually said he never switched res and said it’s a bit dodgy,
And Never do it with chassis powerd up.

 

[Retroman839]

Just removed it from tube
Here it is

Connector 2 ? For 1 resalution only ?
Some cut wires to sort from controler pcb.



Só yeh …
Going to look for any cold solder & sus looking componants …

Zero burn curved tube for this,
I have a windy 2 project Só Thats the plan.

Some pre flight checks before initial power up if anyones got any advice ?