Fix one... break one...

Jeff F

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So I got our Tempest upright working today... Whoo-hoo! :beerchug:

But our Omega Race cabaret monitor took a poop. :(

I love this hobby... I love this hobby... I love this hobby!!! :)
 
I installed a new playfield star insert into my Time Machine pin yesterday. Everything went all good. Started up a game and then noticed my kickback solenoid wasn't firing. Looked into it and the wireform for the microswitch broke :/

Fix one thing...something else breaks..ahah..
 
Wait... fix? LOL, lucky... I haven't gotten anything working correctly in a looooooong itme. But I have a decent collect of 6' tall, several hundred pound paperweights...
 
(not) amazingly... it's also on my paperweight list... As I'm sure it's on many, MANY, paperweight lists.


Its been sitting in my garage forever I reflowed the solder in the monitor caped it all that fun stuff. I played it like in May and as I was playing the screen went black so monitor failure of some sort. I was just so pissed off at it I just said man I have better things to do then play guessing games with this thing. So it has just sat there nothing has to be done with it cosmetically but obviously there is still a deep pit of electronic/electrical issues to be sorted out.
 
It's really funny that someone mentioned Battlezone... Last night I went to play the BZ that I just "fixed" and it's coming up with a "7" error now. :D I know it's the ROM socket but it was one of those deflating things where you just put the power cord back on top of the game and walk away. :)

And Tim, here's the troubleshooting technique I used for the Tempest:

a.) Determine main PCB is defective.
b.) Buy working main PCB.

Pretty simple technique really. Only, it took me a few weeks to get from step a) to step b). :D
 
Right there with you guys...

I was all ready to put RipOff back together after getting the board repaired by Bill. Finished up some painting on the coin door, etc. and was going to verify everything on the test bench before I put the electronics all back in the cabinet. I flipped the power strip on and got distracted for 45 seconds and when I look up all the vectors are blinking. Sigh.

I have another cinematronics monitor/chassis thats partially working that I'm just going to shotgun with Bill's list-o-parts, but I was just too depressed to order them yet.
 
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