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After ZZZOT!
After the shock of the burning ballast we returned to the shop. The Frogger Monitor needed adjustment. David was elbows deep in the cabinet spinning pots until the picture was looking good.
Recap
Frogger has a Wells Gardner 4600 and this one needed a cap kit. We pulled the monitor and cleaned it. Discharged and pulled the chassis while heating the irons. David pulled and soldered the usual suspects.
We checked some other suspect with this ESR meter but they seemed OK. We put it all back together and slid it in place. When we turned it on a 50 year old florescent light fixture over head decided it was time to die. So it made a loud ZZZOT! and threw smoke in the room. Remember this is simultaneous to the firing up of the newly capped monitor.
I have never seen David play racquetball, but now I understand his other hobby. He jumped from behind that cabinet sideways. He looked like something out of the Matrix, but he didn’t have the wires and harness!
The monitor is fine. It really was just coincidence that the light died at that moment. It was, however omen enough. We powered down, cleaned up and declared an end to the night.