Police 911 not booting up, dim coin lights.

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I plug it in, the marquee lights up, the screen lights up black and the coin lights are dim. The weird part is when I unplug it the coin lights stay on, still dim and then flash normal brightness before going out completely. Sometimes I'll plug it in and it'll boot up fine with bright coin lights but most of the time it does this
 
IMO, it sounds like a power supply problem.

DogP
 
All the voltages are low, the knob won't adjust anything and it's a little dusty in there.

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I'm going to clean it, poke around and see what I find
 

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It's a bs200p, +5 stays at 2.8 steady, turning the knob does nothing. It spikes up to 4.2 when switched off. R12 had a burnt trace on the pcb so I put a jumper in and nothing changed
 
quit messing with it, do not plug it back in the machine, throw that shit away and buy a new one. It looks like its had a hard life. Spend $40 at Happ or ebay and your machine will thank you
 
New power supply came in the mail today, I just put it in and it's all good.

I never plugged the old one back into the game, I just like to attempt to fix stuff before completely giving up on it.
 
you don't fix power supplies.

I was trying to justify why that is, and what I arrived at is a) it costs money for someone to fix them b) the parts will cost money and this is the kicker.. c) for the price of a and b, you could've just bought a new one.

I don't settle for off-brand power supplies to begin with. when you have a collection of 115 games and there were only 3 Happs and maybe 4 Peter Chous, and problems directly linked to garbage power supplies, it'll all make sense.

(the Peter Chous aren't that great either in my experience)
 
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