PVM 20M2MDU Flickering when displaying bright images

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TastySoil
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PVM 20M2MDU Flickering when displaying bright images

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Hey guys... Hoping for some input on what I might be able to do to remedy this issue with my PVM...

The PVM only appears to flicker on games with very bright & light colors (like SMB3 or Wai Wai World 2), *but* after leaving the PVM on for a while it behaves ok and I can play these games without issue. I’ve also noticed that adjusting the brightness/contrast knobs down to their lowest settings on the front can stop the flickering.

My friend helped me by doing a re-cap on it using the cap-kit from "Savon-Pat" but it didn’t resolve the problem, unfortunately. The cap-kit had just the most common capacitors that go bad in it, so it's possible some other caps are bad somewhere...

Here is a link to a video of the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzQFJ03J0UY


Have any of you had any issues similar to this? Were you able to fix it?
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