Ok so I was over at my buddy portkey's house checking out some games.
His tempest wasn't working.
So we get to work and first thing test voltages on the arII. They are all good. We subbed in my known working a/rII that I brought, no change.
spot killer is on-no neck glow, no chatter from the monitor. We tested all frame mounted transistors to see if they were shorted to the frame-none of them were.
The game does not play blind, or make any sounds when going into test mode. (not sure if it should, but no sounds whatsoever).
The player 1/2 buttons are solid red-lit.
He had a backup tempest board thought to be non-working/partially working, we swapped in the aux. board with no main board-no change.
So.......
I have 2 working tempests at my house. I brought his board home. I want to test it, but I don't want to mess up my monitor or anything by testing it.
What is the best course of action for me to test it? IF it doesn't work, it's going to andrewB anyway, I just wanted to see if I could check it out before we send it.
Also, for future reference, if I take my working tempest board over to his house, we can drop it in his cab to see if his monitor comes up huh?
Also, no blown fuses anywhere on the monitor or in the cab.
His tempest wasn't working.
So we get to work and first thing test voltages on the arII. They are all good. We subbed in my known working a/rII that I brought, no change.
spot killer is on-no neck glow, no chatter from the monitor. We tested all frame mounted transistors to see if they were shorted to the frame-none of them were.
The game does not play blind, or make any sounds when going into test mode. (not sure if it should, but no sounds whatsoever).
The player 1/2 buttons are solid red-lit.
He had a backup tempest board thought to be non-working/partially working, we swapped in the aux. board with no main board-no change.
So.......
I have 2 working tempests at my house. I brought his board home. I want to test it, but I don't want to mess up my monitor or anything by testing it.
What is the best course of action for me to test it? IF it doesn't work, it's going to andrewB anyway, I just wanted to see if I could check it out before we send it.
Also, for future reference, if I take my working tempest board over to his house, we can drop it in his cab to see if his monitor comes up huh?
Also, no blown fuses anywhere on the monitor or in the cab.



