Let's save an Atari Warlords Cocktail

Griffin

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While arranging purchase of a Sega Outrun with a fellow KLOV member, we got talking about his collection, projects etc etc, as you do.

Long story short I discovered he had a project Warlords that he had saved from a completely trashed dissolved cabinet, after a lot of digging in his warehouse he managed to pull everything together, we agreed on a price and well, here we are.

The rescue parts.
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The PCB, AR1 (2?) and some repro bits.
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A repro cabinet on original frame.
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First order of business will be to drop off all the metals at my local sand blast and powder coating place to get them all pretty in gloss black to come up to the standard of the beautiful repro cabinet. I'll drop these off there in the morning, they saw the pics and didn't see any issues, no doubt it's a reasonably small job for them.

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Going through the gutz to seeing if anything is missing. It all looks to be there, just waiting on a grounding plug to arrive for the power. No boards plugged in yet of course not before we know what's coming out of the power board.

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Congratulations! I'm jumping in here too because not only am I excited to watch the progress, but I'm driving 22 hours to go pick one up this weekend!

Anybody know where the little round feet for the legs can be found these days? Mikesarcade used to sell them, but the well dried up there.

Cheers, @Griffin and good luck with the restore!

Jason
 
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Not bad. All voltages look good on the power board. I have a red LED status light on the game board, 4.95v at test points and lights for the volcano buttons. Neck glow and HV in the Sanyo monitor but no picture, not even when I crank the brightness pot on the neck board.
 
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This is where things start to get a little confusing. Having bought all these parts from another collector I don't know what is from the original cab and what isn't. I got two power bricks, one in really bad shape which I assume is from the warlords rescue, the other I know is from a centipede cocktail.

Now the monitor, I don't know where that came from and it seems there were 120v and 100v versions of these 14" sanyos. You could jumper the Atari power brick to output different VAC for the accessory power, but both of these bricks were jumpered to 120vac when I got them.

Checking some old KLOV threads apparently the main way to identify a 120 from 100 volt Sanyo is the filter cap. Unfortunately mine has a completely different filter cap from the examples listed. Mine is 560uf 200v.

I'm concerned that this is a 100v monitor and I hit it with 120v during testing. So many variables at play.
 
Spoke to the gentleman that I bought all of this from and he assured me it's 120vac monitor so it seems it just needs a good rebuild.
 
Congratulations! I'm jumping in here too because not only am I excited to watch the progress, but I'm driving 22 hours to go pick one up this weekend!

Anybody know where the little round feet for the legs can be found these days? Mikesarcade used to sell them, but the well dried up there.

Cheers, @Griffin and good luck with the restore!

Jason
22 hrs holy heck, where is it Argentina?

Still it's a very rare beast to find and one of the most fun games you can play with friends. Congrats on finding one. After letting my last one go I thought I would never get another chance at one but I guess the arcade gods are smiling on me.
 
From Boise, Idaho heading up north of Seattle. I've always wanted one, but on the rare occasion that one pops up I'm either too late, the price is insane, or it's on the other side of the country. This time I got lucky on all 3 counts.

Have fun with yours!

Jason
 
Looks like my power bricks are not from a Warlords cocktail. They just have the standard 120vac out for the monitor.

I do however have this which looks like it may be useful.

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I've heard the 8 2101A RAMs are notorious for going south on these. It's laid out similar to Centipede in some ways from what I understand.

Thanks,
Jason
 
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Solved my 100v mystery. The monitor didn't have a plug on it and is identical to my Pulsar cocktail monitor which plugs into a 2-prong outlet nintendo style. That's what had me confused here.

On the warlords harness this power brick does put out both 100v and 120v at the monitor plug on the harness itself which I missed. That solves that issue, no need to add a 2nd transformer.

The game seems to be running well but it does look like it may have a ram issue judging by the garbage.
 
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