darthphunk
Active member
A year or so ago, I picked up a Super Pac-Man cabinet that had been poorly converted to a Gunsmoke. The cab had been painted a solid dark blue, the MCR board was removed and replaced with a different power board, monitor was shot. It's been bouncing between storage places for a year now as I slowly acquired parts to make it whole again.
Last week I acquired all of the parts necessary to make it complete, so I started putting it together. I flipped it on... no dice. Checked the power board and I wasn't getting any reading from the -v5 line. Lame.
I had a spare harness, so I hacked in a switcher to give it a go... SUCCESS!!! For about 10 seconds until my switcher let out the magic smoke.
I had no more spare switchers so instead of rebuilding the board, I ordered the switcher replacement kit from arcadeshop.com
Just got it yesterday and threw everything together. Marquee, bezel, control panel, new light fixture, newly rebuilt monitor...
Success!
Things left to do:
It needs a new paint job. Too bad I can't get stencils anywhere *snickers*.
Need to punch up the blue on the monitor
Need to get a degassing wand/drill waved over the monitor to clear up a corner
Need leg levelers/repair some wood underneath the cab
replace the CP with a nicer panel I have
Yay! Super Pac!
Last week I acquired all of the parts necessary to make it complete, so I started putting it together. I flipped it on... no dice. Checked the power board and I wasn't getting any reading from the -v5 line. Lame.
I had a spare harness, so I hacked in a switcher to give it a go... SUCCESS!!! For about 10 seconds until my switcher let out the magic smoke.
I had no more spare switchers so instead of rebuilding the board, I ordered the switcher replacement kit from arcadeshop.com
Just got it yesterday and threw everything together. Marquee, bezel, control panel, new light fixture, newly rebuilt monitor...
Success!
Things left to do:
It needs a new paint job. Too bad I can't get stencils anywhere *snickers*.
Need to punch up the blue on the monitor
Need to get a degassing wand/drill waved over the monitor to clear up a corner
Need leg levelers/repair some wood underneath the cab
replace the CP with a nicer panel I have
Yay! Super Pac!