Hello everyone. I recently picked up a High Speed in pretty rough shape. Game plays but I'm having display issues of course. This is my first sys 11.
At first some displays worked about half the time, then all stopped working. I noticed the F1 display fuse was blown. Looking over the master display I saw a blown chip, but I also noticed my board doesn't match any other board I've seen. The main board is the same but in U12, U13, U14 and U9, instead of 7180s there are 7183s on a daughter board of sorts surrounded by (8) MPSA92s... The blown chip is one of these 7183s. Now I know 7180 and 7183 have different power capabilities, but if I replace the blown 7183 with a 7180, do I need to put it/should I put it on the daughter board or just mount the 7180 directly to the MDB U12 etc spot without the daughterboard/a92s? Would there be any bad implications to having one 7180 and three 7183 working together in this way?
Also, what should I look for that caused the damage on that chip? I'm guessing the chip blowing blew the fuse but not sure what would cause the chip to blow.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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