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How many volts is too many (Wild Western troubleshooting).
I got a dead Wild Western this past christmas and since finishing up some other projects I've been trying to ressurrect it.
1st problem was a dead 5 volts on the original Taito power supply. I ordered a new power supply from Arcadeshop, but still haven't had any luck. When I turn the game on, I get a speaker pop, but absolutly nothing on the monitor. Fearing the monitor was dead also, I tested it with an araknoid I had sitting next to it, and the monitor came up fine.
So I'm fairly cofident the game is not booting at all. Setting the power supply to 5 volts, I get about 4.6 on the board, which seems to low. It made me nervous but I had to turn the power supply up to about 5.4 to get 5.0 at the board. Is this uncommon?
I've got a Zookeeper as well (converted Qix) and it is still working with the original Taito power supply. I measured the power at the board on this game and it was at 5.26. Doesn't this seem like it is too high? Is it safe for me to turn the power up on my Wild Western to this level and see if I get anything?
I got a dead Wild Western this past christmas and since finishing up some other projects I've been trying to ressurrect it.
1st problem was a dead 5 volts on the original Taito power supply. I ordered a new power supply from Arcadeshop, but still haven't had any luck. When I turn the game on, I get a speaker pop, but absolutly nothing on the monitor. Fearing the monitor was dead also, I tested it with an araknoid I had sitting next to it, and the monitor came up fine.
So I'm fairly cofident the game is not booting at all. Setting the power supply to 5 volts, I get about 4.6 on the board, which seems to low. It made me nervous but I had to turn the power supply up to about 5.4 to get 5.0 at the board. Is this uncommon?
I've got a Zookeeper as well (converted Qix) and it is still working with the original Taito power supply. I measured the power at the board on this game and it was at 5.26. Doesn't this seem like it is too high? Is it safe for me to turn the power up on my Wild Western to this level and see if I get anything?
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