Playchoice 10 Questions

lordloss

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I'm going to pick up a play choice 10 dual monitor pretty soon, is there anything to look out for as far as playchoices go in terms of problematic components?
 
First, welcome to the club! Second, I had some issues with my top monitor I still haven't worked out, even after a cap kit, but i'm sure that's an isolated case... I've had mine almost 2 years now, haven't had any issues. Where you picking it up at if you don't mind me asking?
 
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Dual monitor PlayChoice-10s are a waste of a good Punch-Out cabinet in my opinion. You don't need 2 monitors to play a NES game. Revert it to a Punch-Out and you have a true arcade classic (widely considered to be the last classic from the "classic era"), rather than a NES on a timer. Single monitor PC-10 machines make a lot more sense.

But regardless of that, I don't think there is anything especially problematic about them. The Nintendo Sanyo monitors will probably need a capacitor kit if that hasn't been done already, and Sanyos are probably the biggest pain in the ass out of the common classic arcade monitors when it comes to doing a cap kit.

Expect "Nintendo hum" from the speakers, which is normal for a Nintendo machine (louder than a typical Nintendo machine in this case because you have two amplifiers and two speakers in a Punch-Out cabinet).

You might want to replace the capacitors on the PP1000A (or whatever) power supply, as they are getting along in years now. From StarTechJournal.com:

PP-1000, PP-1200, PP-1300 power supplies must have [capacitor] c8 replaced! Use 100mfd at 35v, 105 degrees centigrade. Failure of capacitor causes over-voltage and board destruction.
 
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You might want to replace the capacitors on the PP1000A (or whatever) power supply, as they are getting along in years now. From StarTechJournal.com:

PP-1000, PP-1200, PP-1300 power supplies must have [capacitor] c8 replaced! Use 100mfd at 35v, 105 degrees centigrade. Failure of capacitor causes over-voltage and board destruction.

This I did not know! I will have to check mine out when I get it up and running again this spring.
 
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