Hi All,
I ask here as I believe some of you work in / with the trade and may have some experience with such things.
A mate has an old CRT Corghi Wheel Balancer and it's been killed by a power surge of some sort. He has had someone out to look at it and the garbled message I was given was summat along the lines of 'you could stand an ordinary PC beside it and use that instead' (Instead of paying them £1200 to fix it 'officially' etc). I don't know any more than that and have no idea what does or doesn't work when you power it up etc.
I did have a quick look in the back and it looks like a an open frame CRT and what could be a CGA / EGA (analogue 9 pin 'D' type) connection going from the CRT to the 'system board'.
Now, if it is just an analogue (or composite) monitor I guess he might find one on eBay / Freecycle but if it's more than that it could be wasted effort. I suggested that if it was just the monitor it could possibly be fixed by a TV engineer, if there were still any about that is. ;-(
So, does anyone here have any experience of the insides of these things please and if so any thoughts on the options?
Cheers, T i m.