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Hello!
I have a modified Clay Cowgill boardset that I got in a cabinet a few years ago. Things ran well at first, but, after a while, had audio issues. I am newer to some of the arcade maintenance and repair, but have some electronics background. I pulled the boardset out and discovered a number of the capacitors had leaked and corroded traces on the sound board. In one spot, the leakage caused a short on the board which caused a burn. I was able to rebuild the traces on the board and recap it, and everything worked well for maybe a year and a half.
Yesterday, I fired up my cabinet and noticed an audio issue- while I do have audio, the audio sounds flat, sort of a lack-of-bass or reverb. I went through a bunch of online information and the the best description I could find were those on Lakeside Arcade's repair logs, specifically mentioning the Retricon R5106 being bad on one boardset. I put the boardset through self tests and everything showed up without a problem- no mathbox errors, etc.
I do have a spare boardset that I had got from QuarterArcade some time back that I put in the cabinet, and everything works fine with it, so, I know it isn't the ARII.
Anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to proceed? The Retricon chip looks very difficult to obtain. Happy to purchase one, or, if there's someone that does repairs that can include that chip in the repair, happy to look at options, unless people thing the error is related to something else.
Thanks much!
mattbert
I have a modified Clay Cowgill boardset that I got in a cabinet a few years ago. Things ran well at first, but, after a while, had audio issues. I am newer to some of the arcade maintenance and repair, but have some electronics background. I pulled the boardset out and discovered a number of the capacitors had leaked and corroded traces on the sound board. In one spot, the leakage caused a short on the board which caused a burn. I was able to rebuild the traces on the board and recap it, and everything worked well for maybe a year and a half.
Yesterday, I fired up my cabinet and noticed an audio issue- while I do have audio, the audio sounds flat, sort of a lack-of-bass or reverb. I went through a bunch of online information and the the best description I could find were those on Lakeside Arcade's repair logs, specifically mentioning the Retricon R5106 being bad on one boardset. I put the boardset through self tests and everything showed up without a problem- no mathbox errors, etc.
I do have a spare boardset that I had got from QuarterArcade some time back that I put in the cabinet, and everything works fine with it, so, I know it isn't the ARII.
Anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to proceed? The Retricon chip looks very difficult to obtain. Happy to purchase one, or, if there's someone that does repairs that can include that chip in the repair, happy to look at options, unless people thing the error is related to something else.
Thanks much!
mattbert

