Okay, Asteroids Deluxe, ARI problems. I've read through a lot of threads and am still stuck. Here's the summary:
Rebuilt power brick (new big blue, and rectifier, etc).
All fuses are good, as are fuse holders.
Rebuilt ARI w/BR kit. No sense mod performed.
With a load, without a load, the same thing happens, 5v testpoint jumps from 5v to between ~10.5 to ~11.75. If I place a load across pins 1 and 4 on J7 the same thing. I'm not even touching the AD PCB, its not hooked up, neither is the harness connector at J7. I wanted to check this beforehand.
I have seen postings that w/o a load the +5 testpoint should go anywhere from 6 to 7 or maybe 8v. But not 10-11v.
Is there something wrong with the ARI, or me, or both?
Does it matter that if it sits for a while (days), the +5 "turns on" as +5 before jumping to over 10v? After that, power cut and reapplied, it starts out above 10v...
Rebuilt power brick (new big blue, and rectifier, etc).
All fuses are good, as are fuse holders.
Rebuilt ARI w/BR kit. No sense mod performed.
With a load, without a load, the same thing happens, 5v testpoint jumps from 5v to between ~10.5 to ~11.75. If I place a load across pins 1 and 4 on J7 the same thing. I'm not even touching the AD PCB, its not hooked up, neither is the harness connector at J7. I wanted to check this beforehand.
I have seen postings that w/o a load the +5 testpoint should go anywhere from 6 to 7 or maybe 8v. But not 10-11v.
Is there something wrong with the ARI, or me, or both?
Does it matter that if it sits for a while (days), the +5 "turns on" as +5 before jumping to over 10v? After that, power cut and reapplied, it starts out above 10v...
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