New to the forum, just picked up my first Arcade game

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New to the forum, just picked up my first Arcade game

ive always been intrigued with the old video game consoles and finally found one to play with.

Picked up an all original ms pacman cocktail table. Everything is in great shape besides the color on the monitor is mostly blue. Still have to examine the monitor board for solder issues.

Just wanted to say hi and thanks for the excellent information on this site.
 
Welcome! Ms. Pac is a great game to get started on.

So, when are you buying your next machine? Tomorrow? :D
 
Welcome. Ask plenty of questions in the repair forum here if you have trouble with the monitor.
 
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welcome to this great hobby....where abouts are you located?

California

Welcome! If you need help with the monitor, just let us know - we'll see what we can do.

cool, hopefully its just some solder issue, the previous owner said it worked, then changed colors.


Did have one question, on the circuit board the red power wires were cut off on the connector and moved to a large cap on the board. is this a common problem? i see they they sell a new connector for the circuit board.
 
Put up a bunch of pics of the inside and outside of the game.

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Wow, nice looking cocktail - I wouldn't mind having one of those.

One thing I noticed - your auxilliary board has come loose. Better get that re-attached ASAP, as it's putting stress on that ribbon cable.

You have a Wells Gardner 19K49xx monitor in there - nice monitor. Did you clip the zip tie that holds the cardboard on the neck board, or what it like that when you opened the cab? If it was like that when you opened it, it's likely someone has already worked on the monitor before. If you're lucky, the monitor is all original and never been worked on, which means a cap kit will do wonders for you.

Can you take a picture of the monitor's image when the game is on?
 
Wow, nice looking cocktail - I wouldn't mind having one of those.

One thing I noticed - your auxilliary board has come loose. Better get that re-attached ASAP, as it's putting stress on that ribbon cable.

You have a Wells Gardner 19K49xx monitor in there - nice monitor. Did you clip the zip tie that holds the cardboard on the neck board, or what it like that when you opened the cab? If it was like that when you opened it, it's likely someone has already worked on the monitor before. If you're lucky, the monitor is all original and never been worked on, which means a cap kit will do wonders for you.

Can you take a picture of the monitor's image when the game is on?

Yea the monitor has an issue with it, i already posted in the Monitor section for help on that. I ordered a Cap kit from bobrobert, hopefully that fixes it up. I did undo (just pryed it open so its not cut and can put it back on later) the cardboard from the neck board to check for solder issues. The wells 19k49xx monitors better than some?

Here is a what the picture is doing currently, it does have a lot of burn in. I can see it was in free play mode for awhile since that is burned in also. I changed it back to coin op. As far as i can tell its never been worked on much. Saw your othe post about the aux board, will just screw it into the wood.

picked it up for under 400, hopefully it was a good deal, thought it has to be worth at least that since new non original ones are going for more than that.

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Yeah, the Wells Gardner 19K49xx series monitors are arguably the best arcade monitor ever built.

Do you have much soldering experience? I ask because if you're comfortable working on electronics, there's some things you can do before your cap kit arrives to troubleshoot the monitor.

First thing to do (and I think this was mentioned in the monitor thread) is to start adjusting your bias and cutoff pots on the neckboard to see if you can dial in a better picture. Use this manul as a guide:

http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/AR...06 19k4951 19k4956 (19in Color) [English].pdf
 
Yeah, the Wells Gardner 19K49xx series monitors are arguably the best arcade monitor ever built.

Do you have much soldering experience? I ask because if you're comfortable working on electronics, there's some things you can do before your cap kit arrives to troubleshoot the monitor.

First thing to do (and I think this was mentioned in the monitor thread) is to start adjusting your bias and cutoff pots on the neckboard to see if you can dial in a better picture. Use this manul as a guide:

http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/AR...06 19k4951 19k4956 (19in Color) [English].pdf

Yea tried moving the adjustments, the colors do change but the blue remains dominant.

Have a ton of soldering experience desoldering, hot air, soldering stations at home so i should be set.
 
Okay then, that's good to hear. In that case, pull the neckboard, find the transistor in the blue circuit, and swap it with one of the transistors in the red or green circuit. See if the problem follows the transistor.
 
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