They survived! Vectors on and played for 5 hours during gathering

[Altan]

They survived! Vectors on and played for 5 hours during gathering

I had a bunch of people over this weekend. Last time I did this, my Star Wars freaked out (avg vector issue) within the first hour.

I'm happy to report Asteroids Deluxe, Star Wars and Tempest (cocktail) worked flawlessly.

I'm particularly happy Tempest ran as it's the longest I've had it going since I got it... All the cap work, transistors, HV, interconnect reflow, edge connector cleaning, lv2000, and yoke tweaking proved effective!

Star Wars ran like a champ. Asteroids Deluxe has been problem free since I replaced the HV diode and fixed the main PCB a couple of years ago.

Anyone have vectors crap out during a gathering? Or happy to report they all ran fine?

... Altan

 

[darkcat1]

All I can say Altan is that I had fun with all of them. Can't wait to try to afford one of my own to go into my planned arcade row ^^

 

[animesuperj]

Usually my vectors are fairly solid during gatherings, but I did have my battlezone collapse the last time I had people over. It's the first one I can think of that went down. I toss it up to the fact I never had work done on the monitor, so it was probably due. Otherwise, the majority of my [currently running] vectors have been running great after they're properly repaired. My goal is to have all my vectors up and running at once. I'll get there....eventually, lol.

 

[tbbk]

My Asteroids is a warehouse pull that I didn't even purchase as "working" and have literally done nothing to and the longer I own it the more solid it has gotten. When I first got the thing it had a long warm up time before it would stop resetting, it would exhibit all sorts of weirdness like shooting the wrong direction and huge sized asteroids. Today the only thing wrong with it is the fact that it doesn't make the shooting sound when you shoot. It was on the other day for 4 or 5 hours with no problems at all.

On the other hand, my normally rock solid Clowns, Playchoice and Centipede machines all decided to have weird problems during my last gathering.

 

[jow]

Should have brought them to CAX. Smitty420 would be impressed.

 

[Fulltilt]

That's funny... I had my Battlezone screen collapse at my last gathering also. Everyone giving a proposed solution and which caps, resistors, etc I should consider replacing.

After the party, cleaning the board connectors fixed the problem.

Usually my vectors are fairly solid during gatherings, but I
did have my battlezone collapse the last time I had people over.

 

[SuperGunGuru]

Of all of the vector cabs I have owned (3 B&W and 3 color) Star Wars has given me the most trouble; first the upright's 6100 and then the cockpit had a board problem followed by a monitor problem (also a 6100....yeah I know...maybe an amp setup someday). My Red Baron cockpit had board issues but that was most likely due to the horrible repair someone did of bypassing the edge connectors and soldering right to the pcb. Since I fixed it with new edge connectors it's been good *knock on wood* though I haven't touched the monitor yet.

 

[ieure]

Two years ago, I had my Asteroids Deluxe and Tempest cabarets at PGRE. Last year, Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe cabarets. They all made it through the weekend flawlessly.

Right now, my Omega Race has intermittent horizontal collapse, Asteroids Deluxe is down with burned +5 pads, and Battlezone had a mathbox glitch when I powered it up yesterday.

I'm in the middle of moving right now, have to wait to fix anything until it's done.

 

[creepykenny]

back when my arcade lived in the garage i once left most all of them on in a drunken stupor .. i think, anyway 48 hours later i finally realized the games were still on .. tempest was still rockin solid as was congo bongo, but pole position, robotron and a couple other crapped out. the end

 

[scaboo4u]

I've only got 1 vector so far. I think I have all of my wants in the raster section.

With that said if you have any vectors for sale lmk

Allen

 

[Evewalker]

I was able to keep 8 vectors going for 16 hours a day for four days for TempleCon, but this involved a lot of pre-show bulletproofing. Armor Attack was tripping breakers after the move back home, but it survived the weekend.

I also recommend anyone running a Tempest upright during an event should considering running it with the back door off if security is not an issue. It throws a ton of heat and the cabinet design is terrible for airflow. Even with the LV mod, I was seeing a bit of vector wiggle on Saturday evening and opening the back cooled it right down and brought it through Sunday without a hitch.

 

[animesuperj]

That's funny... I had my Battlezone screen collapse at my last gathering also. Everyone giving a proposed solution and which caps, resistors, etc I should consider replacing.

After the party, cleaning the board connectors fixed the problem.

I had my board bulletproofed not too long ago. While that doesn't mean it's never going to be a board problem, I'm more inclined to think it's the monitor. I need to repair a v2000 anyway, so I'll just do that and the G05 at the same time. Hoping that's all it is so I can move on to the other 6 large vector projects I have (getting the games running) and then all the other maintenance/smaller issues on the others (13 others). Soon enough I'll hit my goal of owning 20, but keeping them all running will probably be a different story, lol.

 

[MTPPC]

Right now, my Omega Race has intermittent horizontal collapse,

That's almost certainly cold solder joint on the neck chassis/neckboard/tube interconnects.

 

[ieure]

That's almost certainly cold solder joint on the neck chassis/neckboard/tube interconnects.

I know, it's just a matter of finding the time.

 

[Altan]

Good stories!

Vectors are the best.,, or at least near the top