Hi everyone,
I'm in the process of recapping the motherboard and analog board of my SE/30 and I've noticed that the "bracket" around the flyback is broken . I read somewhere that you can spot a bad flyback by running the computer in a completely dark room to see if any light or arcing can be seen from the flyback. I don't see anything when my SE/30 is running and all the lights are off. I've linked a couple pictures below, the first one is the computer running and the lights off (sorry for the blurriness but this was taken in complete darkness), the second is the computer off and the lights on, you can see the broken "bracket" in this much clearer picture.
I'm looking for any advice/thoughts on replacing this flyback, My machine is running fine although the sound is very very faint and sometimes the video goes jittery, but I suspect/hope I can resolve these issues by recapping both boards. Is replacing the flyback unavoidable? All my searches for a new flyback are very cost prohibitive.
I have a few other compact Macs that I could potentially "steal" a flyback from but I honestly really want to avoid killing a working computer. I'm also not even 100% sure that I can just swap the flyback from one of those machines, I'm not sure they're compatible with each other. My spares are a regular SE, a Classic and a Classic II, I'm guessing the flyback in the SE could be swapped into the SE/30, but probably not the Classic or Classic II.
Any advice/recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Thanks from Canada
Sal
I'm in the process of recapping the motherboard and analog board of my SE/30 and I've noticed that the "bracket" around the flyback is broken . I read somewhere that you can spot a bad flyback by running the computer in a completely dark room to see if any light or arcing can be seen from the flyback. I don't see anything when my SE/30 is running and all the lights are off. I've linked a couple pictures below, the first one is the computer running and the lights off (sorry for the blurriness but this was taken in complete darkness), the second is the computer off and the lights on, you can see the broken "bracket" in this much clearer picture.
I'm looking for any advice/thoughts on replacing this flyback, My machine is running fine although the sound is very very faint and sometimes the video goes jittery, but I suspect/hope I can resolve these issues by recapping both boards. Is replacing the flyback unavoidable? All my searches for a new flyback are very cost prohibitive.
I have a few other compact Macs that I could potentially "steal" a flyback from but I honestly really want to avoid killing a working computer. I'm also not even 100% sure that I can just swap the flyback from one of those machines, I'm not sure they're compatible with each other. My spares are a regular SE, a Classic and a Classic II, I'm guessing the flyback in the SE could be swapped into the SE/30, but probably not the Classic or Classic II.
Any advice/recommendations are greatly appreciated!
Thanks from Canada
Sal