Pacman coctail table questions

superbert1971

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Ok all....heres the story i bought this as a Ms. Pacman and found out it started life as a pacman. eventually i want to take the ribbon card ou t and make it what it started like as. other than the crappy overlay under the glass everything else is the same. NOW my main question is the monitor. it has a line rather aintly but i still see it going from one side to the other how do i fix that and what causes it? im stil a newbie to all these issues so i learn as i go. lmk THANKS tO all
 
so the problem is the block that holds the fuse....i need you to speck to me like im a 5 year old with this stuff...lmk would sone sandpaper on the contacts work to get a better conection? lmk
 
so the problem is the block that holds the fuse....i need you to speck to me like im a 5 year old with this stuff...lmk would sone sandpaper on the contacts work to get a better conection? lmk

no. I sanded my fuse blocks and the game actually wouldn't turn back on. get 2 of these - http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062258 clipping, stripping, and soldering the wires to these blocks is pretty simple. grab new fuses while you're at it.
Two 1 amp fast-blow
Three 2 amp slow-blow
Two 5 amp normal-blow
 
no. I sanded my fuse blocks and the game actually wouldn't turn back on. get 2 of these - http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062258 clipping, stripping, and soldering the wires to these blocks is pretty simple. grab new fuses while you're at it.
Two 1 amp fast-blow
Three 2 amp slow-blow
Two 5 amp normal-blow

Ditto on what he said. I bought a Pac CT last year and it was totally dead until I replaced the fuse blocks. Ended up recapping the monitor on the G07 and replacing the width coil-- looks great now....
 
so is the hum bar actually the fuse holder?

Either the fuse holder or the edge connector or both. I'd start by replacing the fuse holders, since they're really cheap and simple to replace, and the old ones are pretty terrible.

Also check the edge connector on the game board, make sure it's not burnt or damaged. Does your game still have the filter board installed (little board with inductors and caps on it that goes between the harness and the game board). If so, remove it and plug the harness right into the board.

-Ian
 
so is the hum bar actually the fuse holder?

"Hum Bar" is just the name that they nicknamed your problem over the years. It hums a little bit, and the bar rolls across the screen... so the problem you're having is you have a "hum bar".

The reason it does that is because the power doesn't make good contact from the wall, to the board. Before it gets to the board, it runs through the fuses, the fuse holders in pac man are known to be pretty crappy.. if you mess with them, sometimes they break.

Over the years, this has been a problem in literally tens of thousands of these machines, so people have figured out that to get rid of the hum bar, the easiest thing to do is to replace the entire fuse holders.

You can do this several ways, you can get a nice pretty one like they linked to, or you can get fuse holders from somewhere else, as long as you replace the fuse holders in the cabinet with new ones, and new fuses, you will probably get rid of your hum bar.

AFTER you do that, you may still have an issue, but not as bad... then it could be that the connector on the edge of the gameboard where the power goes in is dirty... sometimes you can get away with just cleaning it.
 
what should i clean it with? Im going to replace the use holders later today and hope that does the trick! thanks all even the ass that corrects my spelling!
 
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