Help, I am a moron

[paul400]

i just powered up the the ms pacman and the sounds are back, i quess it was one of those freak things.lesson learned and dodged a bullet.

 

[paul400]

Let me get this straight. You discharged the G07 in one game, and the game next to it, plugged in to the same power strip, stopped producing sound.

This really shouldn't happen - the only thing I can think of that might cause this is if somehow you're missing the ground at your wall socket, so the ground pins of both games were connected to each other, but not ground. That could send a "zap" through the ground wire, raising it's voltage suddenly. If the wall socket is proerly grounded, however, this should not be able to happen.

Even then, Ms. Pac's logic board is powered by a transformer, and nowhere on the wiring diagram do I see the external ground connected to the PCB. The only thing I can think of is that the frame of the speaker is grounded. Perhaps you burned out the coil in the speaker with an arc? Unlikely, but it's the only plausible situation I can think of.

-Ian

the ms pac was about 5 games down but on the same power strip. i got it up and running , powered it up and now its fine.... go figure????

 

[EVB]

I suppose it is possible a little charge got to the sound circuit and mucked with the logic while it was on. Interesting...

the ms pac was about 5 games down but on the same power strip. i got it up and running , powered it up and now its fine.... go figure????

 

[OregonPacman]

This winter, my daughter was playing my Ms. Pac and I touched the CP and got a nice static zap. The sound quit out at the same time I got the zap. I turned the game off, waited a sec or two and turned it back on. When I started a game, everything was back to neat.

 

[PhoenixStar]

<<Originally Posted by paul400
i was pulling a *GGGGGGGGGGGGGG* go7 out of my super *AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH*pacman when my wife came in a wanted to play ms. *ZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTT*pac, stupid me forgot to un plug the super pac and *GHHHHHHHHHEEYAAAA* left them on the same surge protector. i *ERRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKK*discharged the chassis........... go ahead you finish ther rest.>>
Fixed your post. And you need to imagine your hair standing up and making funny faces while you say this.

you getting hurt = funny
ms pac getting hurt = not so funny
....you gotta love this place.

HAHAHAHAAA!!! (takes deep breath, pause for break, inhale) HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!
But seriously glad you both are ok.