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Pretty much my first Video Arcade repair since I started advertising on CL about my on site repair services. So anyway, guy has a dead Defender, hasn't been working in a year and he's finally decided to have someone come and look at it. I can't recall when he said he obtained it, but someone has obviously touched this before because it has a switching power supply.....a hack job once again. They wired it along side the original harness, they just twisted all the wires together and screwed them down, they bypassed the still functional transformer for the monitor, and they had jumpered the fuse before the line filter with just a wire.......but it didn't matter because they weren't using it. The power cord was just straight hooked up to the switching PSU and yet everytime you pugged this thing in it threw the GFCI outlet breakers.................
So anyways, spent my time re-wiring and cleaning the mess and re-routing the AC to the transformer for the monitor (in the lovely heat of a garage)......didn't have enough terminal connectors, but I had 3 which was enough for the AC line in....I'll fix the harness later. Plugged her in, didn't throw the breaker, but i got nothing but the Marquee lamp to turn on. Monitor is dead, and so is the game board.....assuming that because we have no sound and nothing to test video with. So we are going to send the Defender board out for repairs soon and possibly work on getting a new monitor because that monitor just looks......euggghhhhh right now.
Overall the cabinet's integrity is really nice, not perfect but it has a good CP & CPO, fairly decent marquee, and bezel, and a fully assembled and clean coin mech & door with service switches. The cabinet's sideart is completely intact too and original assuming....
LOL told him if this adds up in repairs and he'd rather something else, if we can get it fixed up it could still fetch a high price considering condition quality of the art and CPO stuffs....
Excuse the picture quality, only had my phone....
So anyways, spent my time re-wiring and cleaning the mess and re-routing the AC to the transformer for the monitor (in the lovely heat of a garage)......didn't have enough terminal connectors, but I had 3 which was enough for the AC line in....I'll fix the harness later. Plugged her in, didn't throw the breaker, but i got nothing but the Marquee lamp to turn on. Monitor is dead, and so is the game board.....assuming that because we have no sound and nothing to test video with. So we are going to send the Defender board out for repairs soon and possibly work on getting a new monitor because that monitor just looks......euggghhhhh right now.
Overall the cabinet's integrity is really nice, not perfect but it has a good CP & CPO, fairly decent marquee, and bezel, and a fully assembled and clean coin mech & door with service switches. The cabinet's sideart is completely intact too and original assuming....
LOL told him if this adds up in repairs and he'd rather something else, if we can get it fixed up it could still fetch a high price considering condition quality of the art and CPO stuffs....
Excuse the picture quality, only had my phone....
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