some interesting finds tnt in the death of my OMEGA RACE..
As you may or may not have seen here, I picked up my Omega Race just before Xmas- When I got it the boards were missing but everything else was in tact. I powered it up shortly after getting it and noticed the marquee was lit (lower), and there was a red LED lit on the monitor chassis. There is no neck glow however. After talking to some folks here, I learned that my upper marquee wasn't lighting because there was either a fuse out or something wrong with the linear PS.. I swapped out the PS with one I had (the main slow blo fuse on it was blown and replacing it resulted in the same, thus the swap), and upon swapping out the PS the upper marquee would come on, so I'd made progress.. I also noticed that the transformer brick read "Omega Race C.T.", for cocktail, even though this is an UR model. I didn't think much about that at the time..
I recently acquired a main and daughter board for the game, and decided tonight I would hook them up to see what kind of shape they were in. The main board is missing ROMs, but has an LED on it so I thought I'd just check to make sure it was getting power. I sorted out all of the wiring (dusty as hell btw), and powered her on. I was happy to look down in the back and see the LED was lit on the main board. I looked around at some things, and upon looking back down at the board again the LED was out. I powered it down and checked all connections, all looked good. Powered up the game again, no red LED this time.. I started looking around, and after checking the fuse on the linear PS, it was out again. I swapped the fuse, powered up the game again, and the red LED on the main board was on again- I started checking around some more and looked back down and the red LED was starting to fade AGAIN.. I was like WTF and then noticed the fuse on the linear PS was GLOWING!!!! I immediately shut everything down. I sat there trying to figure out what was making the fuse on the linear PS go like that so fast, and deducted it has to be something about the transformer brick.. And then it hit me: the one in there is for a cocktail, but also, there are NO GROUND STRAPS ON IT ANYWHERE!! Could that be my issue? I have extras I can use, I just need to know where to attach them to.
Would like to hear what everyone might have to say on this one. Either way, I made more progress on Omega Race tonight too (along with Asteroids, but that's another story.....)
VG
As you may or may not have seen here, I picked up my Omega Race just before Xmas- When I got it the boards were missing but everything else was in tact. I powered it up shortly after getting it and noticed the marquee was lit (lower), and there was a red LED lit on the monitor chassis. There is no neck glow however. After talking to some folks here, I learned that my upper marquee wasn't lighting because there was either a fuse out or something wrong with the linear PS.. I swapped out the PS with one I had (the main slow blo fuse on it was blown and replacing it resulted in the same, thus the swap), and upon swapping out the PS the upper marquee would come on, so I'd made progress.. I also noticed that the transformer brick read "Omega Race C.T.", for cocktail, even though this is an UR model. I didn't think much about that at the time..
I recently acquired a main and daughter board for the game, and decided tonight I would hook them up to see what kind of shape they were in. The main board is missing ROMs, but has an LED on it so I thought I'd just check to make sure it was getting power. I sorted out all of the wiring (dusty as hell btw), and powered her on. I was happy to look down in the back and see the LED was lit on the main board. I looked around at some things, and upon looking back down at the board again the LED was out. I powered it down and checked all connections, all looked good. Powered up the game again, no red LED this time.. I started looking around, and after checking the fuse on the linear PS, it was out again. I swapped the fuse, powered up the game again, and the red LED on the main board was on again- I started checking around some more and looked back down and the red LED was starting to fade AGAIN.. I was like WTF and then noticed the fuse on the linear PS was GLOWING!!!! I immediately shut everything down. I sat there trying to figure out what was making the fuse on the linear PS go like that so fast, and deducted it has to be something about the transformer brick.. And then it hit me: the one in there is for a cocktail, but also, there are NO GROUND STRAPS ON IT ANYWHERE!! Could that be my issue? I have extras I can use, I just need to know where to attach them to.
Would like to hear what everyone might have to say on this one. Either way, I made more progress on Omega Race tonight too (along with Asteroids, but that's another story.....)
VG
