Star Wars Arcade

Tallon

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Picked up my first arcade, a Star Wars arcade. I'm a pinball guy and have pretty good board skills and can read a schematic. Followed some of the basics and rebuilt the power with a kit from arcade shop. Ar2 and Big Blue rebuilt and replaced respectively. Appears I'm getting the correct voltage to the boards but getting nothing on the screen. Cleaned the edge connectors on both ends of the boards. Cleaned and straightened pins inside connectors and interconnect. Reheated headers and reflowed solder.

Game started with 20A fuse blown on the transformer The spot saver led on on the wells Gardner 6100 and a faint neck glow. Replaced fuse and it is holding, spot saver is pulsing now after power rebuild and still have slight glow. Also getting some noise and squeaking out of the game now but not getting anything else. Doesn't appear to be playing blind either.

Don't know if it's just not booting or the monitor is out and I can't hear it playing blind. Don't know what the LED's on the boards are suppose to be doing so before I throw $70 at a full monitor kit, I thought I would ask for advice
 
Do "pinball guys" own an oscilloscope?
Seems you have a logic board issue.
But, ultimately, you should also rebuild the monitor. (Don't power the monitor till you confirm you have a working SW boardset).
 
Not yet unfortunately. Been able to get by with logic probe so far.
Then time to check the cpu reset line with said logic probe. If it's not playing blind or making button noises in self test then I wouldn't be rushing out to buy a monitor get well kit. Use your voltmeter to verify xout/yout.
 
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