MilitiaMan
Well-known member
Big surprise, right?
Trying to get this resolved for a friend and I am as far as my own tiny brain can get me - need help!
This is the large DMD from Sega Batman Forever. This DMD works great for about 40 minutes and then the display just goes to "fuzz" or "snow". It is pretty much unreadable at that point. The fact that it works well for a while led me down the path that when something gets "hot" it is failing so I started looking at components and capacitors and I think I have located the problem cap.
Take a look at the cap on the left. See how it is "bubbling"?
My guess is replace that and I should be back in business ...
So ... still with me?
Here is the problem. I cannot get to the solder side of that cap. The glass DMD is permanently attached to the circuit board you see in the photograph and it doesn't appear it can be removed without permanently destorying either the PCB or the glass DMD - nice freaking design Sega!?!?!
So ... any ideas? I would love to get this thing fixed or at least have that cap replaced to see if that solves the problem.
Let me know what you think. I am out of ideas.
Steve
MM
Trying to get this resolved for a friend and I am as far as my own tiny brain can get me - need help!
This is the large DMD from Sega Batman Forever. This DMD works great for about 40 minutes and then the display just goes to "fuzz" or "snow". It is pretty much unreadable at that point. The fact that it works well for a while led me down the path that when something gets "hot" it is failing so I started looking at components and capacitors and I think I have located the problem cap.
Take a look at the cap on the left. See how it is "bubbling"?
My guess is replace that and I should be back in business ...
So ... still with me?
Here is the problem. I cannot get to the solder side of that cap. The glass DMD is permanently attached to the circuit board you see in the photograph and it doesn't appear it can be removed without permanently destorying either the PCB or the glass DMD - nice freaking design Sega!?!?!
So ... any ideas? I would love to get this thing fixed or at least have that cap replaced to see if that solves the problem.
Let me know what you think. I am out of ideas.
Steve
MM
