Asteroids - Isolation Transformer part

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Hi,

I accidentally burned up my Iso Transformer today in diagnosing some monitor issues. It started smoking. I turned power off quickly but I think its gone. The monitor would not have neck glow after this.

Does anyone know where I can find a replacement? I only need this one part as the rest of the power brick is fine. Game still plays blind, coin lights work, etc.

I also need help in getting the right one..I understand the Iso used in Asteroids is a special type.

I dont care if new or used.

Thank you.
 
The iso for Asteroids (and pretty much most Atari games) is built into the power brick. It does not use a separate iso.

The transformer contains multiple sections, some to step the voltage down for the game board, and others to provide the isolated monitor voltages.

What did you do to cause the damage? Frying a brick is not common with Atari games.
 
I am not 100% clear what I did...What I was in the middle of was swapping wiring harnesses and testing my spare bricvk with the old one with both plugged in...

I had the monitor and game plugged into the new one so they are ok..and the new one is fine too...

The old one just had the coin door lights connected to it still....nothing else on that harness....the new harness was plugged in to the other items...nothing should have gone awry... i looked down and saw the old ISO smoking so I quickly turned it off..


I un did my new harness, reconnected my old one to this old brick...game came up but the monitor did not get neck glow anymore.....So I took out the old brick, put in my spare brick, using old harness, then everything was back to the way it was originally...

So now I have this old power brick that still works other than the Iso that is on it.

Would like to just replace that Iso and keep this power brick as a spare again.
 
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