Collecting B&W Vector Monitor parts

May 6, 2025 6:27 PM

Tithis

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Bought this 19" V2000 black & white vector 'monitor' last year, used in classic Atari games like Asteroids, Lunar Lander and Battlezone. It was missing the HV Cage and deflection board.

One of the tubes mounting ears is broken off and it does have a bit of burn it. Certainly workable.

Ran into this on ebay though, a NOS picture tube from 1977

Everything looked to be a near perfect match electrically, same neck size, pinout, neck contour and diagonal deflection angle. Horizontal and vertical deflection are 3 degrees off, which should only affect the final picture size a bit.

Found a guy selling fully rebuilt 19V2000 deflection boards

And yesterday found a guy selling a G05-802 high voltage cage. This is from a different monitor, but the G05-802 and 19V2000 are extremely similar and for the most part are compatible with each other. Apparently there are lots of hybrids out there that have been put together over the years

This one is untested, but looks clean enough. As long as the flyback is working it should be good.

And finally the main power brick from a battlezone. Unlike most arcade monitors these monitors don't take standard 120v and don't generate their own heater voltage, so they need a power supply designed for them.

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Wow. I had an old tube TV by the door ready to through it out. Pizza guy comes. Turns out he collects vintage video games so I tipped him a TV.

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So, going to refit a Asteroids machine? or maybe even Star Castle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHS-Mg0n1BU

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Plan is to get a multivector board like Masteroids and build a cabinet for it. I'm thinking in the style of a Atari woodgrain cabaret cabinet.

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Good stuff

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