I've gone where many others won't tread.. Omega Race!

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I've gone where many others won't tread.. Omega Race!

I joined the Omega Race club today.. I must not have enough grief in my life!

The cabinet is beautiful and in EXCELLENT condition. The game board has the
typical acid damage. Hopefully it isnt to bad and its salvagable. I cut off the
battery the moment I got it home and poured vinagar over it to neutralize it.

The monitor has neck glow so I am assuming its the game board at the moment.
When powered up the P1 light blinks rapidly and the coin counter triggers
continously. No other indications of life. Pics are below.

Anyone repair these PCBs in the USA? I know Omegaman does them but he's in the UK.

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Does it play blind ? Could be the monitor. Can you put it in test ? And also, is the spot killer lit on your deflection board ? Do you have another BW vector to test the monitor in ?

Remember, you have to turn that game off, put it in test, and then turn it back on, you can't put it in test while it's on.
 
Does it play blind ? Could be the monitor. Can you put it in test ? And also, is the spot killer lit on your deflection board ? Do you have another BW vector to test the monitor in ?

Remember, you have to turn that game off, put it in test, and then turn it back on, you can't put it in test while it's on.

Unfortunatly it doesnt pay blind. Tried coining it up.. nothing. I need to check
it out more but I guarantee the board needs work. I'm determined to get her
back up and running. I can handle the monitor, I'll definitly cap it. I need
board help through. I have an asteroids but its currently ripped apart
being restored.
 
Wow those pictures look familiar maybe because I just saw the game a couple of hours ago. Thanks for having me over and good luck with the Omega Race because she is a beaut.
 
That's some serious acid damage. I had 3 sets of these PCBs and none of mine were near that bad.
Not a "nay-sayer" but that's gonna be a lot of work.
Might have better luck buying a non-working main PCB with less damage and getting it repaired.
I only suggest that because a working set will be stupid expensive, once you find one.
 
With a cabinet THAT nice (as far as I can tell), I wouldn't mind it having a bad board myself. I would rather start with a nice cabinet with a bad board set than have a working game in crappy condition. You can always find another board, but you can't really find all of the parts and artwork necessary to make a really crappy machine look nice...
 
The best way to get an Omega Race PCB that works is to fire up your DeLorean and go back to 1981 before the batteries leaked and swipe one. There is a good chance that all the ICs and circuit board traces in the vicinity of the battery are damaged. It may come down to replacing the ICs and jumpering all the affected traces.
 
Yea I'm gonna keep an eye on ebay for one. I'll reach out to Omega man to see if he wants to take this board on as a challenge:) Worst case I end up
with a spare which I try to have for all my games anyway.
 
I would rather start with a nice cabinet with a bad board set than have a working game in crappy condition. You can always find another board, .

With almost every other game I would completely agree. Unfortunately, with Omega Race, the opposite is true. I have had, or been involved in deals, with 6 or 7 OR uprights and they were all in very nice cosmetic condition.

They also had acid-damaged boards and did not work.

Put another way, the value of the complete. working OR upright is about 90% "working PCB" and 10% everything else.
 
With almost every other game I would completely agree. Unfortunately, with Omega Race, the opposite is true. I have had, or been involved in deals, with 6 or 7 OR uprights and they were all in very nice cosmetic condition.

They also had acid-damaged boards and did not work.

Put another way, the value of the complete. working OR upright is about 90% "working PCB" and 10% everything else.


Yeah that's the thing, I think these boards fried so early that almost all of the uprights are still in immaculate shape.

On your first picture where you circled the chips, go ahead and extend that circle to the left all the way to the edge of the board, and the extend the right side of the circle up about another 3 rows. Then on the back do the same thing. If you remove, repair, and replace every trace in that area..... you'll have about a 30% chance it'll boot.

These things are a BEAST.
 
so why has no one repro'd these boards yet and fixed the battery issue in the process? or has it been done?

by the way Mike...your PM box is full...
 
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There's so much affected area for most of the battery acid damaged boards it would require cutting out the damage area, creating a daughter board and attaching leads from that to the undamaged areas. It would be easier to simply repro the entire main board, IMO. There's another recent thread in which someone's been talking about doing just that, but IIRC, there's not been any movement on that project in about a year.

M.O.
 
Anytime somebody does something like that, it's a labor of love, not of profit. They'd have to sell them for 3 or 4 hundred bucks a set to turn a profit on it, and nobody would buy them for that. On top of that it'd be a lot of work and there's only so many people with the skillset to completely rework a board like that.
 
If you look at the quantum board thread.. its just not very practical to
repro boards that big these days. The board is selling for almost 200 and
it takes almost 350 in parts to populate it. Its only worth it for the Uber
rare/popular boards like major havoc and quantum.

Now if someone wanted to do an FPGA replament board that replaces the
main board on Omega race.. I bet that could be do reasonably but takes a lot
of specialized talent.
 
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