Dumb Belkin thingy = non-working games in arcade.

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This stupid thing just quit:

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and now I have a whole row of games out in the arcade:

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I'm here alone today so unless my wife who's getting tires on our car across the street from Lowes answers her cell phone....

This is going to be a day a bunch of people come in to play games too I bet.

I wonder if it's a fuse in there... Dumb thing is riveted shut.
 

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Got to drill the rivets so you can start trouble shooting and checking components for power.
 
In some power strips, there is a circuit breaker on the side. If you press it it might click back in and you will be good to go. Some time those circuit breakers will blow and fuse open, It a little rarer that it does happen this way. If your blowing the main circuit when you plug it in. There is a MOV. It looks like a disc capacitor. Its job tis to short out before the power spike kills what ever you plug into it. Maybe your switch is broken. Be careful taking it apart. There are normally springs in them that will Bounce out if your not careful.
 
My wife showed up so I went and got another power thing. I don't have a drill at the store to drill it out, I'll look at it later at home :/
 
That's how Jeff F is. He stopped in my store today, made fun of a WWE controller I had for sale then he goes online and makes fun of me. :( He's cold hearted like that.
 
it's a belkin it's probably warrantied for life. :D to warranty, :( to non working games for a day or more
 
Yeah I have it in a box to be sent back tomorrow. I guess they will just replace it. I will have a spare so I don't have to suffer an hour outage of games again. It's very stressful because a lot of the attract mode sounds come form that row... Gyrus, Galaga, Mappy and Super Pac-man... you really notice when those are not in the mix of the ambient sound of the place.
 
Have you swapped out some games? I see Sinistar isn't there next to Gaplus any more.
 
Need to drill out the rivets. I had one of these crap out
a few years ago, I don't remember what was wrong but
it was a simple fix.


JD
 
Have you swapped out some games? I see Sinistar isn't there next to Gaplus any more.

I shuffled them around a bit. It's amazing how many people come in and think some games are new that have been there for months. Sinistar is on the end next to Crater Raider now and it gets a lot more play.
 
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I shuffled them around a bit. It's amazing how many people come in and think some games are new that have been there for months. Sinistar is on the end next to Crader Raider now and it gets a lot more play.

I see you did add at least one since I was there in November...Crystal Castles :) Any other changes? Would like to update the listing over at aurcade.com
 
I see you did add at least one since I was there in November...Crystal Castles :) Any other changes? Would like to update the listing over at aurcade.com

Yes.. Crystal Castles is in and Vanguard went home.. Top Speed is sold off to a friend (some friend I am to stick him with it :| ) and Road Blasters is in it's place. I think Spy Hunter is going bye bye soon, it keeps breaking, it can't take being on as much as is required here. As soon as I have it working I think I'm going to offer it for trade on here.
 
What's breaking on your Spy Hunter game? Just curious.
 
I shuffled them around a bit. It's amazing how many people come in and think some games are new that have been there for months. Sinistar is on the end next to Crater Raider now and it gets a lot more play.

It's funny isn't it? You should do that every couple of months and see where your "hot spots" are. :)

BTW, never even noticed Vanguard was missing...
 
Vanguard must have shown up after I was there in November, as it wasn't in any of my pics (I took pics of all the games :) )
 
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