pray for my TRON

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She's been down for abt 3 mos now. It started taking longer and longer for the pcb to boot until just finally a garbled screen. :( I have sent a request to BobRob for 2 new big blues. Hopefully this gets TRON back up on his lightcycle again!
 
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Good luck with the Tron man. :( Nothing worse than a game that you're not able to play.
 
Swapped out the big blues, issue still there. I guess it's switcher time. :( My games are slowly dying off. It's a sad day for the Rebellion..

EDIT: forgot to mention that I desoldered and resoldered the pins for the 3-pin connector, 9-pin connector, and the 2 15-pin connectors at the top. I also just found a thread out here from jscott who had issues getting power to the 3-pin connector from the transformer, I'm going to check that out on my TRON tonight if I can.
 
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change out the start motor capacitor and rebuild the linear.

I had considered that but some traces on the linear have some corrosion on them on the left side so I'm sure that's not helping matters much. What is the start motor cap? Is that the blue dude at the bottom of the ps board?
 
Nevermind found out it's the oil can thing. My bad.

Did you by chance measure the voltage at the pins on the edge connector to see if you're getting 5V? Swapping all of this power stuff out won't do you a lick if the transformer isn't outputting 5 volts. Measure the voltage coming out of the transformer for 12 and 5 volts and take a quick measurement on one of the silver caps on the top board--it should show 5V also.
 
Yeah man. I wish I woulda seen this earlier I oulda told ya those big blues most likely weren't gonna fix that and I'm sure they were expensive especially for both of them cause i think one was more then the other...
 
Yeah man. I wish I woulda seen this earlier I oulda told ya those big blues most likely weren't gonna fix that and I'm sure they were expensive especially for both of them cause i think one was more then the other...

I had to give it a try. I've had the game for 5 yrs and hoped maybe this was all it was. :(
 
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