Commodore 1084S CRT monitor repair

Input connections of EVERYTHING of this era suffered cracked joints. The number one reason is people with non-electronics minds using and plugging/unplugging. I even remember as a kid with the Atari 2600. The power connection on the back of the unit, of course. (1/8" t/s plug or very similar, 9v if I recall well. I think opposite polarity than most other gadgets. Could be wrong.) I "fixed" it well enough at the time as a kid and it worked for everyone, including my younger brothers, which is saying a lot haha! But it wasn't a proper fix. I hadn't tools (some of my father's but not electronics gizmos and replacement connections, solder, etc…) or that whole kind of thing in those days! 🙂 I had a nice Walkman at the time which was like Heaven on Earth to me, quite literally. The headphone jack stopped working well. So I took it to this place called, "Stevens" which was a major store at the time, like a mini Walmart. They had an electronics repair station in the basement. I go bring it to them. I am like 8 years old here. They tell me to get lost and it's not worth it.

I was a C64 (and TI 99/4a) freak as a young child. No, I am not kidding. I would type books of code from magazines like I was on a mission, for one. Like extra extra if you get what I am trying to say of myself, here – being nice to myself at the same time, too. I had QLink connection, which was AOL before AOL. Talking 1985 here. GEOS operating system. I was 8 and breaking systems intentionally with purpose, already. heh heh This monitor? I am wondering what its intended matching computer is. All that said, I didn't drool over hardware wisely because I wasn't rich and wisely so. This is why I don't know the answer. 😉 I fell asleep last night watching this. TIme to continue from where I last remember it. You rock, Dave! I know I tell you every so often. It's a good thing.

Eh, worked on lots of Teslas now. The early cars are a pain in the ass. Lots of major design issues – they’re like an early ‘80s VCR. Jammed full of features, but not all that well thought out from a system design point of view and loaded full of bad design. Adhesives being used where things really needed to be screwed in, that sort of thing.

The later cars – the Model 3 / Y are cake. Extremely simple mechanically, not much goes wrong with them. They released all of the service manuals for free and built in a service mode into the car’s screen. They’re absolutely a late Funai VCR if you could compare.

and its not sun bleached! retro gear gets more views than your normal videos

I think the camcorder's own microphone sounds a lot better than the wireless one. It picks up the sounds of what you're doing more clearly, while the wireless one mostly just picks up your voice.

Great video. I love how you went back and inserted voice over for additional comments/information. Pro Move! I'm surprised more content creators don't do the same.

Are these basically the same chassis as the Philips CM8833?

Are you sure you wouldn't be interested in modding CRTs to accept RGB input? You can take an otherwise worthless CRT and make it sellable.

Interesting video showing something a little different.Feedback: Your sound in the second part of the video sounded worse than in the first part with a lot more bottom end. Keep up the great work… gotta keep those comment trolls supplied with fodder. I bet you annoyed someone when you said you deliberately under-scan on some TV's not to mention when you used the Electrician's snips 🙂

That's a big can of Nutrol. I can only find what seem to be much smaller ones now. Another example of shrinkflation? I really like the alphanumeric board zone cues along the PCB edges seen at 26:52 which I assume may be referenced in the service manual and that's a VERY nicely done double sided PCB, too. Who designed and manufactured this monitor? There's a thread on Reddit about Kirkland batteries leaking. Not long ago even Duracell had bad problems with leaking. "Made in China" issues?

Mine is the “D” variant made by Daewoo. The power switch just recently gave out. Mine still has its front cover, unlike so many others.

hit it!

Very cool monitor, probably typically it was used with Commodore Amiga computers. I've got Commodore Amiga 500, but used it with regular tv, using Scart cable, so it produced pretty good image with the rgb signal, especially if compared to the tv modulator which was maybe more common way to connect it to regular tv.
I never even had the tv modulator for the Amiga. Only other way I've connected it was via monochrome display port to video capturing device, but Amiga gives just black and white image from that port.

I still have the Amiga, and usually it sits in it's box, but currently happens to be connected, ready to be used 🙂 Have indeed played some games and looked some files and pics I did using Deluxe Paint 3 in the 90's. Sometime soon it's time to put it back in it's box, as I don't really have good space to keep it available for use at all times.

kamera built in mikrofoni better (that's how you write camera and microphone in finnish language)

The current mic in this video upto 33:32 was alot clearer.

The Sony PVM-1342Q also can accept digital rgb input signal and has the correct port. There may be others. However that Sony has a Trinitron tube so probably the 1084 has better picture still. The Sonys come up on the bay pretty regularly but they are usually in the $400+ range used and abused…
I have a couple Commodore 128 computers that can output digital RGB but no monitor that can accept it unfortunately.

made by philips ,always has cold solder joints everywhere,there are about 7 variants of the 1084,this one is philips,great when working im forever fixing these based ona cm8833 mk2