I was looking for information on how to repair the old arcade monitor on my Valley woodie when I accidentally came across a whole "scene" of arcade enthusiasts who have been making reproductions of printed circuit boards for well-known games like Donkey Kong, Galaxian, Xevious etc for some time now... but I also found out that there is also people who has reproe'd some PCBS found on old arcade monitors such as the K900 (on small numbers, 10-20) to save themselves from dealing with those old, crispy copper traces. So I wonder if there might be something like that but for Nanao monitors, that is, Ms8-29, 26", 25, 18 and MS9, Sanwa PFX etc. Does anyone know if something like this has been made , announced, thought off? If it's something that hasn't been proposed yet, I think it's a good idea for a new project.
Nanao monitor repro PCBs
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I highly doubt that a company like Eizo would be willing to manufacture something that is only intended for a small niche market. I see it as much more feasible as a fan-made project. I think of a board designed and diagrammed by someone with knowledge and commissioned in small numbers to a company in China like PCBway or something like that.
The problem in my opinion is to redo a complete chassis
It's finding all the components
When I see how difficult I find simply capacitors
Remake chassis very good idea
But complete
Not just the printed circuit board
hatmoose
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Hello and welcome - this thing you describe is a super cool idea
If you are looking for a reproduction replacement remote board there are options like this
https://pxlmod.com/products/nanao-ms9-29-arcade-crt-remote-board?variant=44865710293214
But a whole replacement reproduction chassis is still a while away - project to start is here, but still a lot of work to do
https://github.com/tdaede/td-crt
and an interview with the creator here
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6mUYQhgSU
If you are looking for a reproduction replacement remote board there are options like this
https://pxlmod.com/products/nanao-ms9-29-arcade-crt-remote-board?variant=44865710293214
But a whole replacement reproduction chassis is still a while away - project to start is here, but still a lot of work to do
https://github.com/tdaede/td-crt
and an interview with the creator here
Yeah, a complete repro chassis should be ideal, but being realistic that will increase production costs a lot, besides from all my years dealing with these I have made to the conclusion that the main issue is not the failing components, since these were made in Japan (from an era when that slogan still meant something) but the burnt/lifted traces and cracked/burnt solder pads, the flybacks on these things are rock solid compared to other brands, there are few components and custom daughterboards that could be replaced with modern parts, and then let potential users have the option to either replace or recycle what they want from their old chassis, but fixing burnt and lifted tracks is a non stop process, once that fails there is no going back, you can patch and fix it to somehow make it run for a while, but after every service session I always end up with that profound feel.... of knowing that it is only a matter of time before it fails again, and that is how many of these monitors end up in the trash.
That's what I'm talking about!, but it seems like a more ambitious project since what this guy is trying, is to make an "universal" chassis from scratch, I like the part when he speaks about getting rid of those obsolete components by replacing them with modern parts, but again, this also looks like a lot of work, time and money to be invested on something that consider a very niche market, I don't know what numbers he's working with, but if it turns out profitable and he manages to carry it out, it would be great news for all of us in this hobby, what I'm proposing is something way more simple and cheap, take an original chassis, strip it out of all of its components, and make reproductions of the motherboard with fresh new copper traces.