Vongoosewink
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Last month I visited an Op's shop, and came away with a non-working Smash TV. You can read about the whole 'Op Raid' story here:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=194029
Basically, the Op had a bunch of old games from the late-80's early 90's, but their business had moved toward the Cherry Master gambling games since the downfall of the Arcades. They had been parting out their old games and using the monitors for the Cherry games -- except for the games that were not working. Since Smash TV was dead, they never bothered to part it out... It was still a good looking cab though, in solid shape with a few chips and scuffs, and a faded Marquee. The sides still look pretty colorful! I offered them $100 for the cab, and took the thing home.
I now have a little spare time so now I'm going to try to get this sucker working. This should be a challenge, since I'm basically an electronics newbie... I'll try to document my efforts here with plenty of photos. Hopefully there are some Smast TV experts here that can keep me heading in the right direction.
OVERVIEW:
The interior of the cab is VERY dusty on the floor, but everything looks complete at first glance. Looks like it sat around for years with the rear door off. Plug the game in, there is no sound or lights, but the monitor has a very faint glow, not bright at all just barely visible, unplug it and you can see the screen collapse into a little square in the center, like an old TV when turned off. But no game screen/graphics, nothing.
I've read that the first thing to check is the fuses, so I started there. I found one along the interior left wall, between the boards and CP, and another on the monitor board. I pulled them, and checked with a cheap multimeter (the no-sound version), it looked like they were bad. I was surprised to see each fuse was a different kind. Put in new fuses from Radio Shack, and tried to power up. Nothing, but now there is no glow to the monitor at all. Weird.
Also should mention, none of the little red led lights on the board light up.
Had a look inside the Marquee, the light there had fallen out and was hanging down the back. I pulled it out and was surprised to find it was a regular incandescent bulb, dead. Replaced it with a 60w equivalent CFL bulb, tried the power, and it lights up. Woo! A very small victory, at least I now know the plug works!
So where do I go from here? I guess the next step is to test the power supply? If that went, the machine would still get power to the light, since that runs AC direct from the plug, right? And the power supply coverts the AC to DC for the board/monitor? Somebody please let me know if I have that right...
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=194029
Basically, the Op had a bunch of old games from the late-80's early 90's, but their business had moved toward the Cherry Master gambling games since the downfall of the Arcades. They had been parting out their old games and using the monitors for the Cherry games -- except for the games that were not working. Since Smash TV was dead, they never bothered to part it out... It was still a good looking cab though, in solid shape with a few chips and scuffs, and a faded Marquee. The sides still look pretty colorful! I offered them $100 for the cab, and took the thing home.
I now have a little spare time so now I'm going to try to get this sucker working. This should be a challenge, since I'm basically an electronics newbie... I'll try to document my efforts here with plenty of photos. Hopefully there are some Smast TV experts here that can keep me heading in the right direction.
OVERVIEW:
The interior of the cab is VERY dusty on the floor, but everything looks complete at first glance. Looks like it sat around for years with the rear door off. Plug the game in, there is no sound or lights, but the monitor has a very faint glow, not bright at all just barely visible, unplug it and you can see the screen collapse into a little square in the center, like an old TV when turned off. But no game screen/graphics, nothing.
I've read that the first thing to check is the fuses, so I started there. I found one along the interior left wall, between the boards and CP, and another on the monitor board. I pulled them, and checked with a cheap multimeter (the no-sound version), it looked like they were bad. I was surprised to see each fuse was a different kind. Put in new fuses from Radio Shack, and tried to power up. Nothing, but now there is no glow to the monitor at all. Weird.
Also should mention, none of the little red led lights on the board light up.
Had a look inside the Marquee, the light there had fallen out and was hanging down the back. I pulled it out and was surprised to find it was a regular incandescent bulb, dead. Replaced it with a 60w equivalent CFL bulb, tried the power, and it lights up. Woo! A very small victory, at least I now know the plug works!
So where do I go from here? I guess the next step is to test the power supply? If that went, the machine would still get power to the light, since that runs AC direct from the plug, right? And the power supply coverts the AC to DC for the board/monitor? Somebody please let me know if I have that right...
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