Space Duel Issues

Robotron Jon

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My Space duel has a few issues:

1) It has a very long warm up time. The lights on the start and select cones come on but don't blink right away. Then the monitor has a few scattered broken vectors. Then the PCB and monitor seem to lose power and reset several times, and you can hear one of the coin mechanisms click intermittently. Eventually the monitor comes on with a clear picture and the game plays normally.

2) When you start a game, you always hear a click in one of the coin mechanisms. When the game ends and you get to enter your initials, you always hear a click again in the coin mechanism.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
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You are going to type out all of that without even checking the voltages ? You have 5900 posts, you should know better.



I would be curious to see what the +5 is at during all of this. I would have my meter clipped on and watching it.

Are the fuses in the fuse holder tight ?
 
Thanks for the input, I'll look into it.

From what I read from old posts it sounds like a power issue, but I have never owned this game before and don't know a thing about it.
 
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+5 was low. Rebuilt power supply and cleaned +5 pot. Game is working fine now.
 
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