AllenBomber
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I've got a Super Breakout that I'm slowly bringing back to life. When I got it, someone had tried to patch in the wrong power supply. I realized that it was the wrong supply and never fired it up until I could get the correct one. After months of searching, I finally got the atari B&W supply for it and fired it up today. Thankfully, the game plays blind (so no destroyed PCB, YAY!) but my monitor chasis blows fuses. I pulled it and found R67 (10 Ohm, 2W) to be a little toasted, but the rest of the board looked clean. After removing the resistor from the board, I measured it at 8.2 ohms instead of 10. Could a 1.8 ohm variance be causing me all of my problems? Should I be looking for other issues that caused the resistor to go bad, or just chalk it up to ~30 years of use makes anything break?
