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Long story short, I moved some crap around in the basement, and something hit a switch on the power strip feeding RipOff. I'm pretty sure it was a month ago :mad: :mad:

I noticed the marquee on today and the screen scrambled. <insert large amounts of cursing here>

I'm too mad to look at it to figure out if its the PCB or the monitor. I just bought this monitor from a KLOVer a little while ago and brought RO back to life after 10+ years of sitting.

Sigh.

Sorry, just pissed.
 
Ohhhhhh man... that sucks. :(

Not to get your hopes up... but my Omega Race and Red Baron will freak out after 7 or 8 hours of being on. After they cool down they work fine. I've tried troubleshooting them but I usually give up after 3 or 4 hours. :)

Good luck! :beerchug:
 
Hah, I remember I left my Mario Pinball on one night. I had a couple beers with friends after playing games and went to bed around 2am. I shuddered awake at around 4am and thought I heard someone talking in the garage, so I lay awake for a few more minutes and I hear "This-a game's a lots of fun!" coming from the garage. I then realized it was Mario's voice, and it was the attract mode going off. Scared the absolute shit out of me.
 
Leaving a game on is one of my biggest fears since they can't be seen and not really heard from the main part of my house.

I always do a second sweep of the room before bed if I've been out there.

Hope it's an easy fix for ya!
 
Yea, I'm hoping its just got something overheated and tomorrow all will be better ....

Funny thing is that I was moving things around getting ready for the electrician to wire up the rest of the basement. He's going to install 3 switches to turn off the 3 20amp circuits for the games. That way there won't be any accidents like this again.

Thanks everyone - I'm just really bummed right now as I had just got this thing back to working.....
 
Leaving a game on is one of my biggest fears since they can't be seen and not really heard from the main part of my house.

It's not really that big of a deal, man. I've left them on for YEARS before.

Also: If your game has issues after being on for a while, you need to work on it and get it reliable like it's supposed to be. There's no reason a game should act up after being left on, that's how I test them to make sure they're in good working order.
 
That sucks man. My setup has a 3-phase disconnect that supplies power to all the circuits my games are on. On one of the circuits is a radio. If that radio is on, the circuits are live, I shut off the 3-phase disconnect. Even if I left a game switch on, it won't be getting power.
 
That sucks man. My setup has a 3-phase disconnect that supplies power to all the circuits my games are on. On one of the circuits is a radio. If that radio is on, the circuits are live, I shut off the 3-phase disconnect. Even if I left a game switch on, it won't be getting power.

Do a lot of the homes there have three phase? Is it 208 volt? Around here only commercial businesses have three phase. The homes all have just standard 240 ran to them.
 
Also: If your game has issues after being on for a while, you need to work on it and get it reliable like it's supposed to be. There's no reason a game should act up after being left on...

Really? If you enjoy that part of the hobby then more power to you. Personally if a game works for 3 or 4 hours at a clip then I'm pretty much happy. :dunno:

When the family and/or friends come over to play, we rarely have the games on for more than a few hours. I can't see the point of leaving a game on for 8 or so hours just to get it to act up so I can track down what's "faulty". Again, different strokes for different folks. :)

And what was the point of leaving your games on for years? Are you in Guinness or something? I guess I don't follow why you'd do that:questionmark:
 
Do a lot of the homes there have three phase? Is it 208 volt? Around here only commercial businesses have three phase. The homes all have just standard 240 ran to them.

No, three-phase is pretty much exclusively a big-building thing. The only time you'll find three-phase in residential, normally, is in big (50+ units) apartment buildings, and each apartment is on only one of the phases. He's probably using a big high-amperage switch intended to control three-phase motors, but wired to three separate single-phase circuits.

As for voltage, there's two three-phase standards in the US, 3 x 120V (208V phase-to-phase) and 3 x 277V (488V phase-to-phase). The former is actually pretty popular among FECs, and probably was used by large-scale arcades back in the day too.
 
No, three-phase is pretty much exclusively a big-building thing. The only time you'll find three-phase in residential, normally, is in big (50+ units) apartment buildings, and each apartment is on only one of the phases.

Yeah, I *really* wish I could get three phase where I live. I've looked in to it, but the infrastructure isn't there, and I'd have to pay for a lot of lines and hardware in order to get it.

I actually own equipment that was designed to run on three phase, which will have to be modified and re-wired to run on 240.

-Ian
 
...so I lay awake for a few more minutes and I hear "This-a game's a lots of fun!" coming from the garage.

For some reason that made me LOL. I'm glad you didn't have Mario the Axe Murderer in your garage though.
 
Really? If you enjoy that part of the hobby then more power to you. Personally if a game works for 3 or 4 hours at a clip then I'm pretty much happy. :dunno:

When the family and/or friends come over to play, we rarely have the games on for more than a few hours. I can't see the point of leaving a game on for 8 or so hours just to get it to act up so I can track down what's "faulty". Again, different strokes for different folks. :)

And what was the point of leaving your games on for years? Are you in Guinness or something? I guess I don't follow why you'd do that:questionmark:

I had one in my living room, and it looks like shit sitting there with the lights off, but looks fucking AWESOME turned on. So turned on it stayed.
 
Do a lot of the homes there have three phase? Is it 208 volt? Around here only commercial businesses have three phase. The homes all have just standard 240 ran to them.

Ok, let me clarify. I have a 3-phase disconnect box. The power is only single phase. The box disconnects the Hot, Neutral and ground. Even if lightning hits the house, there's no way for it to get to the games.
 
So, I went down and powered up RipOff. No dice, scrambled output. I won't have time for a while to test it out to see if its PCB or monitor.

:004_scry:
 
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