Frogger power supply rebuild?

MikeSandwick

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I have a Frogger in my game room that has an annoying whine/hum. I pulled the power supply / amp so I can replace the caps on it. I noticed a bad burn spot underneath it. It works, just with a hum. It looks like the burn originated from the bottom of the 3300uf 16v cap, and you can see crap all round the bottom of the cap.

My question is, is it worth rebuilding this, or should I just find one without burn? I am planning on ordering the caps from Bob Roberts.

Thanks,
Mike
 

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I would look into putting a switching power supply into it. That looks toasted..it even looks like there is a previous repair that has melted wires.
 
I fixed an original one when I had one and it worked just fine afterwards. Before you replace it with a new one, check the power outputs and make sure you don't need certain voltage not provided by the new switcher...
 
I would prefer not to have to modify the wiring of this game, and besides I don't really have time to wire in a switcher (I want to have this taken care of by next weekend).

I've ordered the caps, i figured i'll run this one until it quits, then figure out what to do later on.
 
It is repairable, but caps alone will NOT do the trick.

Yeah, that thing needs more than caps!
It would be a lot faster, cheaper, and easier to wire up a switcher. I'm usually in favor of keeping original power supplies, but Frogger's is a POS not worth saving.
 
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