Red Tent experts - clicking noise?

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Calling all Red Tent experts - I'm trying to get a Red Tent going that I picked up at an action last year.

I just connected a switching power supply (not the original) and powered it up - no life in the game, but it is making a constant clicking noise, and there is some speaker hum.

Anyone know what the clicking noise might be, or be a sign of? Just thought I'd check to see if anyone has any insight before tearing this apart further...

Thanks!
 
Post a video if you can or pictures . Could be wired wrong
 
Unplug the monitors and see if it goes away. If yes, plug one in, see if it is there and then plug the other.

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You have a short or bad monitor. I bet after you do what nerdygrrl suggested, you will find problem is monitor or shorted pcb.
 
Unplug the monitors and see if it goes away. If yes, plug one in, see if it is there and then plug the other.

OK, thanks for the advice. I did as suggested, and confirmed that this is one of the monitors.

I've now pulled it and put in the spare. Still no life from the game pcb, but making progress.

Thanks for the help!
 
OK, thanks for the advice. I did as suggested, and confirmed that this is one of the monitors.

I've now pulled it and put in the spare. Still no life from the game pcb, but making progress.

Thanks for the help!

Nothing says thank you like a rep(nerdygrrl) point, hint hint...
 
Awww thanks guys.

As per the monitor check the B+

What is happening with the board? Are you getting any screen? What game do you have loaded on there/is only one side populated or both?

Make sure your PPU and CPU are seated properly, etc.
 
+ 1 from the above. Ive had to remove and reseat all of the chips (although you could start with PPU and CPU) but Ive had roms be the issue as well. Shows just a bright screen

Good luck Chris!
 
Right now I'm just getting a blank screen on both of the monitors, and no sound of the game playing.

I have 2 pcbs, one with Baseball and the other with Excitebike - I plan on switching the games to something better, but after I get this working.

I tried both boards so far, then loaded Baseball daughterboard onto the other PCB, all with no success.

I think the next step is to try to test each of the monitors independently? I have a PC10 here I could plug them into, to at least see if they are working ok.
 
I would reseat PPU and CPU on the boards, clean the legs, etc. Also if you have a known working CPU install that and see if it makes a difference. You can pull one from your PC-10 MoBo if you have to.

It can't hurt to test the monitors, but my guess is the current problem is on the board itself.
 
I would reseat PPU and CPU on the boards, clean the legs, etc. Also if you have a known working CPU install that and see if it makes a difference. You can pull one from your PC-10 MoBo if you have to.

It can't hurt to test the monitors, but my guess is the current problem is on the board itself.


Awesome advice again - I tried this, and got each board to boot. And this monitor needs a cap kit something fierce!

Excite bike seems to work great when the other side is not populated, but when I put the RBI daughter board on, I just get a screen with lines.

RBI loads, but is upside down, and the picture 'bounces' about 1/2 inch. The hold seems to be adjusted properly, so I'm guessing the bounce is coming from the pcb somehow? I'll check the dips, maybe that's why it is upside down.

I think the plan is to get some different roms burned, or maybe get the multi-vs kit for one side. No biggie, as I'll need some time to get these monitors capped!

Here's a pic of my limited success so far:

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Thanks again for the help, it's getting there!
 

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Congrats! The daughter boards draw more power, if it's giving you fits when the DB is plugged in you may want to look into re-capping your PS while you are doing the monitors.

I'm not sure why RBI is flipped. Is it upside down on both sides? I am wondering if there is an issue with the inverter on the monitor it is showing on. Also there is a hold on the chassis as well-you can try tweaking that a bit and see if the bounce stops.

As per the multi kit. I LOVE it. A lot of bang for your buck. I have a board with both sides populated. It's nice to be able to run 14 different games in one shot.
 
Congrats! The daughter boards draw more power, if it's giving you fits when the DB is plugged in you may want to look into re-capping your PS while you are doing the monitors.

I'm not sure why RBI is flipped. Is it upside down on both sides? I am wondering if there is an issue with the inverter on the monitor it is showing on. Also there is a hold on the chassis as well-you can try tweaking that a bit and see if the bounce stops.

As per the multi kit. I LOVE it. A lot of bang for your buck. I have a board with both sides populated. It's nice to be able to run 14 different games in one shot.

OK, I pulled all the roms and tried the other board -- good results. Both games are up and running, and I swapped the locations of Excitebike and baseball to see if there was a problem with the upside down issue - and it is now on Excitebike. Different PCB, different roms, so that tells me that the upside down issue is either the monitor or connection to the monitor.

The flipped monitor is a Sanyo. (The other one is a Sharp XM, and it looks great).

The flipped one, I suspect I may have installed it incorrectly - I'm pretty unfamiliar with these Nintendo monitors. Unlike the Sharp, this Sanyo has a little inverter board mounted on top of the flyback cage. Reading elsewhere in the forum, people said to ignore the inverter board (when using on a Nintendo game) and plug directly into the chassis. That's what I did, is this incorrect?

There is also a little red wire running from the chassis to the inverter board, that is disconnected. I'm not sure what this is, should I reconnect it?

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That picture you posted is of a monitor with an inverter board. It should be labeled inverter in and inverter out.

Plug the RYGB that you have on your chassis into the inverter in and then you need one of these here things that you run from inverter out to chassis.
 

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That picture you posted is of a monitor with an inverter board. It should be labeled inverter in and inverter out.

Plug the RYGB that you have on your chassis into the inverter in and then you need one of these here things that you run from inverter out to chassis.

OK, I've now reconnected everything, so the video is going into the inverter board first, as advised. It was working the same this way, no change on the monitor orientation.

So I got to thinking "what else would flip the screen?" I had a look at the yoke connector (the yellow/green/red/blue wires), and sure enough the connector was cut between the yellow/green and red/blue section. Someone must have done a tube swap on this before, but installed it all backwards for some reason. I pulled both the plugs, and reversed each of them - now the picture is the right way up!

Luckily, I've done some tube swaps myself before, or I never would have figured this out.

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I have to admit I was a little intimidated by this machine. Thanks again to Nerdygrrl and all the rest for the advice! Lots of cosmetics, cap kits, and game upgrades still to do on this, but at least it is now working! :)

The plan is to set this machine up with some little-kid friendly games for the arcade, as our youngest guests don't have a lot to do on the 'grown up' size machines. I'm thinking Super Sky Kid, and maybe balloon fight on the other side - that way there are 2 2-player games to choose from.
 

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So you hooked it up to the inverter, ran a line off of it to the chassis, powered it via the red cable, etc and there was no difference? That doesn't seem right.

Either way the yoke swap worked. How is the shake?

RBI is a GREAT kid friendly game, ballon fight another good choice. Congrats on the pickup. This is by far one of my favorite machines made.
 
So you hooked it up to the inverter, ran a line off of it to the chassis, powered it via the red cable, etc and there was no difference? That doesn't seem right.

I'm not an expert, but here's what I presume... before I had just bypassed the inverter board altogether since this is a Nintedo setup. Now I'm using the board, but hooked it up to the 'non inverted out' connector - so I think the board is not really doing anything. When I hooked it to the 'inverted out' connector, the colors were all messed up. Does that make sense? I don't think it needs the signal converted, as this is a Nintendo game running the correct monitor, right?

Either way the yoke swap worked. How is the shake?
I think the shake was on the other board - I'll come back to it later, it may just need a good cleaning of the connectors.

RBI is a GREAT kid friendly game, ballon fight another good choice. Congrats on the pickup. This is by far one of my favorite machines made.

Thanks, it is going to be fun to play with all of the options, once I get the multi-vs loaded up. I have a PC10 in the game room, but there are a lot more options available with the vs boards.
 
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