Today I was determined to figure out why the top lights behind the marquee weren't lighting on this game, along with the quarter slots (seeing lit quarter slots are like seeing tits for me with these things)-
Ken Layton and some others told me that if there were no coin door lights, it was most likely a 12V fuse issue. I thought I'd tested all of the fuses when I got the game home, but somehow I managed to miss the one in the linear PS (either that or I tested it and it blew the first time I powered this thing up). Nevertheless, the fuse in the PS was blown, and it's a 3/8 Amp slow blow fuse. I ran up to the local HD and since this was just to get lights working, I just bought the 1/2 Amp slow blow to do my tests (instead of combing all of the local Radio Shacks to find the other one and wasting the few hours I had where I could work on the game).
I came home, switched out the fuse, powered up the game and.......... no change. Hit the new fuse with the tester and it was blown ("slow" blow my ass LOL). There were only 2 fuses in the pack, so rather than try the same combo again, I popped in an extra power supply that I had that met the criteria for the machine, and put the 2nd new fuse in it. I wired everything up, flipped the switch and................. I had a marquee and nice tits! I mean, quarter lights!
I was ecstatic. The funny thing is, the spare PS I had was one that I'd won on an auction 2 years ago, and it was labeled a TRON PS. But when I got it, it was the wrong one. I just threw it in my spare parts bin in the event that I might need it for another game some day, and today just happened to be that day! I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER (name the TV show that comes from)..
That's today's update! Stay tuned for more! I attached a pic but I can never get good pics because my flash always goes off.
Day ONE thread:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=114982
Ken Layton and some others told me that if there were no coin door lights, it was most likely a 12V fuse issue. I thought I'd tested all of the fuses when I got the game home, but somehow I managed to miss the one in the linear PS (either that or I tested it and it blew the first time I powered this thing up). Nevertheless, the fuse in the PS was blown, and it's a 3/8 Amp slow blow fuse. I ran up to the local HD and since this was just to get lights working, I just bought the 1/2 Amp slow blow to do my tests (instead of combing all of the local Radio Shacks to find the other one and wasting the few hours I had where I could work on the game).
I came home, switched out the fuse, powered up the game and.......... no change. Hit the new fuse with the tester and it was blown ("slow" blow my ass LOL). There were only 2 fuses in the pack, so rather than try the same combo again, I popped in an extra power supply that I had that met the criteria for the machine, and put the 2nd new fuse in it. I wired everything up, flipped the switch and................. I had a marquee and nice tits! I mean, quarter lights!
That's today's update! Stay tuned for more! I attached a pic but I can never get good pics because my flash always goes off.
Day ONE thread:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=114982
