Sometimes it really is just a fuse ...

My poor Williams MultiGame has been out of service for some months now due to monitor woes -- the game was playing blind and I couldn't figure out why.

So, I pulled the monitor chassis and tested everything I (well, actually, Randy Fromm) could think of.

No joy.

It's a Wells Gardner 4900, which has that big ass D-battery looking cap on it. I figured "What the hell ? I've got spares from a recent DigiKey order, let's replace it."

So I did ... many months ago.

Never got around to reinstalling the monitor.

Mrs Cheffo has been telling me that I need to spend more time doing "Cheffo" things and I can't think of anything that qualifies more than a rousing game of Robotron, so, tonight, I hooked the monitor back up.

No joy.

I review the "Out Of Order" worksheet that I attach to games when they go down (Yes, I have lots of worksheets -- thanks for asking!). My notes say that input AC voltage was fine.

Maybe I was wrong, although blowing a measurement for household voltage would be a really stupid mistake.

I had made a really stupid mistake.

One 3Amp fuse later and we're playing Robotron.

I need to listen to Mrs. Cheffo more often.