Bringing a Commodore 1084S-P1 back to life!
Channel: silvestron's bits and bytes
Date: 2021-07-27

A customer sent in this Commodore 1084S-P1 monitor in good-looking condition to get the RCA connections on the back looked at, and a general cleanup, but looks can be deceiving and it needed a bit more love than expected.

Some things went bad along the way, with the 30 year old components beginning to fail, but everything is working and beautiful now. I learned a lot during the repair on this monitor, so I hope I can share those learnings with you!

If you like what I do and want to encourage more, I appreciate your support through likes and comments below. If you have the means, you could also support me on Patreon, as money helps me buy things to fix and build more projects - https://www.patreon.com/silvervest

Bookmarks!
00:00 - Intro
02:56 - What we are working with
05:01 - Remove and install new parts
12:28 - Reconnect tube and test
17:57 - Mo solutions, mo problems
23:23 - 10 days later, parts arrived
24:57 - Final summary

Any feedback is welcome, as always.

Equipment used!
Multimeter: Digitech QM-1321
Component Tester: Generic LCR-T4
Soldering Iron: Hakko FX-888D
Desolder Pump: Engineer SS-02
Desolder Braid: Chemtronics Soder-Wick #4

Useful resources!
Testbild.prg - http://zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/c64/utilities/
CRT Parts Supplier - https://www.wagneronline.com.au/crt-parts/television-parts/service-repair-parts/pl/
Commodore monitor service manuals - https://gona.mactar.hu/Commodore/monitor/Commodore_monitors_by_model_number.html

Credits!
Music:
* Birdies - Skipping Class
* Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Data Select
Font: Riciery Leal - VCR OSD Mono (https://www.dafont.com/vcr-osd-mono.font
Putting up with my weird hobbies: My wife

Disclaimer!
I am NOT an expert, I have genuinely NO idea what I'm doing, and mostly just glue things together and use a lot of Google-fu until stuff works. I've been tinkering with electronics since I was a kid, but have no formal training and will probably do things incorrectly. If you learn something from this, that's awesome, but trust me - I'm learning too!

#Commodore #Monitor #1084