Yup, it took me 20 minutes to get things properly converged using the service menu (and more instructions found on the net), but now it's running absolutely perfectly. If anything, it's better than beforehand. The dead resistors were rated for 1 watt, and I replaced them with 2 watt resistors. Hopefully, I'll get the extra year that I want out of this set.

Next up, now that I know my way around solder: finally fixing the flakey pins on my empeg sled.

Edit: ran it all night, during our karaoke New Year's Eve madness, and it seemed to work fine. I'm seeing some drift in the convergence, but it's within the defocused fuzz of the CRT guns. I figure it needs some serious burn-in before I want to get in and do micro-tweaking of the convergence. When I want real sharpness, I'll eventually break down and get a fancy flat panel...


Edited by DWallach (01/01/2006 06:53)