Battlezone PCB and Pole Position PCB Repair

Cuda

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I am looking for someone that can do repairs to both a Battlezone PCB that I get white spot on and a couple of Pole Position boards, a I and a II both get added graphics to the track that shouldn't be there.

Any reasonable good repair folks out there?
 
mikerk did my Pole Position boards, no idea if he does Battlezone.

Solid work on my Pole Position, though. Years later and it's still working great.
 
For your battlezone, have you verified it's a board problem? I have one that got a white spot on the screen that appeared and moved around a bit, turned out to be a bad edge connector. I would squeeze it together and the spot would disappear. The plastic had heated up enough over the years to get misshapen and lose grip on the board. A new connector did the trick and it's been running great ever since.
 
For your battlezone, have you verified it's a board problem? I have one that got a white spot on the screen that appeared and moved around a bit, turned out to be a bad edge connector. I would squeeze it together and the spot would disappear. The plastic had heated up enough over the years to get misshapen and lose grip on the board. A new connector did the trick and it's been running great ever since.

When I say white spot that is all I get is a small white spot in the middle of the screen nothing else.
 
Pole Position Boards

If you all can give me some links to the people that fixed or fix your pole position boards so I can reach out to them that would be great.

any idea of prices anybody charges?
 
When I say white spot that is all I get is a small white spot in the middle of the screen nothing else.

Sorry clarification because I am not there working on it. My tech just said "it is holding on the spot kill on the monitor" Thoughts?
 
For your BZ, I highly recommend AndrewB. SOLID work.

He actually owns a BZ too ... so he can do more than just bench test it. ;)
(Though OPs issue likely is the BZ boardset; SpotKiller issue could also be the monitor - if not tested separately to verify)
 
hey Cuda, if you dont find anyone to look at the boards for you I can take on that job.

PM for details.
 
Cuda, for the BZ, you should confirm that the game is not playing blind. If it is playing blind, you may have a monitor issue. (Or it could also be an issue with the analog section of the game board, causing it to not output video signaling, even if it is still playing blind.)

Ideally you should connect the monitor to another working game (Asteroids Deluxe is one option, if you have one), to confirm there are no monitor issues. But also, if the game will *not* credit up and play blind, you have at least a game board issue.

And yes, I repair BZ's, if you want to send it in. I'm not fixing PP's at this time.
 
Cuda, for the BZ, you should confirm that the game is not playing blind. If it is playing blind, you may have a monitor issue. (Or it could also be an issue with the analog section of the game board, causing it to not output video signaling, even if it is still playing blind.)

Ideally you should connect the monitor to another working game (Asteroids Deluxe is one option, if you have one), to confirm there are no monitor issues. But also, if the game will *not* credit up and play blind, you have at least a game board issue.

And yes, I repair BZ's, if you want to send it in. I'm not fixing PP's at this time.

Hooked the monitor to Asteroids and it works fine that's how we isolated it to the board issue
 
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