Spent some time on the public holiday to configure the monitor.
Here’s the cross stitch of the monitor before any convergence work..
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/PNgyQXIl.jpg)
After about two hours worth of mucking around and me $h**ting myself, this was the best I could do (also ran out of convergence strips)
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/ITSNZncl.jpg)
The bottom left could probably use another one or two strip, but there’s definitely a difference on all corners, especially the top left! In game, it’s a lot more forgivable and nowhere near as noticeable as it used to be.
Of course, the back view

– yep, I got happy with silicone. I really don’t want to be taking this monitor out anytime soon
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/UdlIYTTl.jpg)
She’s finally back in the cab and I had a good gaming session on Wednesday night.
Was about to drop a few coins on it yesterday until this happened…..
Turned the cab on, noticed something was off when I saw the monitor and upon checking the colour chart… blue channel is missing!! FMD it just doesn’t stop! This cab really hates me! hahah
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/eqoWIrsl.jpg)
At this point in time, given the history of this cab, I almost rage quit and threw in the towel, but I stepped away for 10 mins, regathered as I knew I had a spare neck board for this chassis – I already came across this issue with the other blast city and I replaced the neck board.
Back on the “workbench” (aka floor

), I desoldered the two wires on the neck board and swapped them around. Turned it on and voila! I got blue but no red! ARRRGGGHHHHH
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/3PS3XCWl.jpg)
My last resort before emailing Joey was to reflow the 3 transistors responsible for the 3 rgb channels on the neck board.
Turned the cab back on with the reflowed neck board and bob’s your uncle! Everything is back to normal! Thank f**k for that!
![[​IMG]](https://i.imgur.com/U9WcTeOl.jpg)
Got her installed again (back didn’t like it) and dumped a few credits on DOJ!

For now, arcade universe is balanced again and I really hope there’s no more challenges for this blast city ever. I’ve been told by a few people to sell it off, but given the amount of work I’ve put in, it’ll most likely be sticking around for a few years
