Colorado - Tempest repair

Ice Cream Jonsey

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Anyone in Colorado up for taking a look at my Tempest? I've been fighting with it on and off for a few months but am in need of some help. cleverlyj installed an lv2000 for me but it's burning through transistors. I ordered some fresh ones, but I'd really rather pay a pro to give it a shot. I live in Thornton but would arrange to bring it to you if that's easier.



-- Robb
 
Anyone in Colorado up for taking a look at my Tempest? I've been fighting with it on and off for a few months but am in need of some help. cleverlyj installed an lv2000 for me but it's burning through transistors. I ordered some fresh ones, but I'd really rather pay a pro to give it a shot. I live in Thornton but would arrange to bring it to you if that's easier.



-- Robb

There is a way to see if it is a vector problem or a program problem; it involves a socket and bending a single pin so it will not make a connection (the socket and NOT the part!) Then if the game plays fine, you know it is a vector problem. The game will coin up and play blind (nothing on screen). Can not remember where I read that but I know it was very recent so a quick search should produce it.

Good luck,
Bill
 
It's coining up and playing blind... sound is fine, cone buttons light up. I'm afraid that something happened to the deflection board.

You might post a thread in the forums right below this one or the monitor section. If it coins up and plays blind then it is probably not the ic chips and roms. That is something for the vector gurus to look at.

I think you can check the connector on the back of the tube. You can use a oscilloscope for a monitor on them boards. We did that at an arcade party not long ago.
 
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