Performa
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Recently @DeanG passed this beautiful old Montgomery Ward TV-Monitor hybrid set my way, and it had it's formal debut at LincCon back in August, as seen here:
While it works pretty good, it developed (or rather revealed) an intermittent fault where the composite video cable had to be plugged in "just so" to get the video to display.
I presumed this would be a fairly straightforward fix to reflow the solder on the connector at the board, and that would be that. Not so, as the connector is a strange "double decker" arrangement where the inputs are mounted above the outputs on a plastic piece (bottom right on the next photo). After reflowing all the visible solder on the board, I've found that it's less particular about how the cord is plugged into it, but still much more sensitive than it probably should be. Any ideas as to what I should try next? I'm leery to remove the connector piece as I'm not sure how tough it would be to get it reconnected to the board if I remove it.
While it works pretty good, it developed (or rather revealed) an intermittent fault where the composite video cable had to be plugged in "just so" to get the video to display.
I presumed this would be a fairly straightforward fix to reflow the solder on the connector at the board, and that would be that. Not so, as the connector is a strange "double decker" arrangement where the inputs are mounted above the outputs on a plastic piece (bottom right on the next photo). After reflowing all the visible solder on the board, I've found that it's less particular about how the cord is plugged into it, but still much more sensitive than it probably should be. Any ideas as to what I should try next? I'm leery to remove the connector piece as I'm not sure how tough it would be to get it reconnected to the board if I remove it.