Does this kill the tube?

[mufunyo]

Hi,



I've got a repair lined up for my Blast monitor, but due to covid I haven't been able to actually go there yet. Now my main question is, can this sort of defect end up killing the tube?

I haven't really played on my cab for months at this point out of fear of damaging the monitor by running it in this faulty state, but there's an event this week (the Carnival of Death) that I'd really like to contribute scores to. If this is a known thing like "oh that's just some dry caps nothing to worry about" then I'll run the cab for a few hours this week to get my scores in, but if it's one of those "well it could be safe but it could end up killing your whole monitor" then I think I'll abstain, heh.

Thanks!

[grantspain]

the blooming of the picture?

[mufunyo]

Yes. There's also occasionally a clicking noise associated with the blooming/pulsing.

[grantspain]

probably flyback about to fail, i would not leave that on if i was you because when they go they really go

[mufunyo]

Thanks. I'll stick with MAME for a bit then.

[grantspain]

is it not doing it on other game boards then?

[mufunyo]

I meant MAME on my PC instead of PCBs on the cab.