pookdolie
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I'm having a lot of trouble tracking this down in my Elevator Action cabaret.
The game seems to be working well. Monitor image is steady, sharp, good color, and isn't deviating from any of those at all no matter how long the machine is on for. Game plays fine, sound fine, controls fine, coin door lights working, machine coining up, coin counter working, etc. Everything seems...well, fine. But there's a strong ozone / electrical smell coming from the cabinet. I've opened it up and cannot pinpoint it as coming from any one source - at least, not with my schnozz.
I did research in the forum and found various explanations for smells like these:
1. Bad HV. Physically, it looks fine. The monitor is more or less totally silent while it's running, and I don't see anything unusual going on in the back.
2. Bad electrical cord. Again, looks physically fine (as far as I can see), no smells there.
3. Dirty contacts. Should I go at stuff with contact spray?
4. "Old games smell like ozone; this comes with the hobby". Well, okay, but I'm concerned.
I'm posting some pictures of the monitor and HV unit just in case anyone can see something obvious...
Any ideas?
The game seems to be working well. Monitor image is steady, sharp, good color, and isn't deviating from any of those at all no matter how long the machine is on for. Game plays fine, sound fine, controls fine, coin door lights working, machine coining up, coin counter working, etc. Everything seems...well, fine. But there's a strong ozone / electrical smell coming from the cabinet. I've opened it up and cannot pinpoint it as coming from any one source - at least, not with my schnozz.
I did research in the forum and found various explanations for smells like these:
1. Bad HV. Physically, it looks fine. The monitor is more or less totally silent while it's running, and I don't see anything unusual going on in the back.
2. Bad electrical cord. Again, looks physically fine (as far as I can see), no smells there.
3. Dirty contacts. Should I go at stuff with contact spray?
4. "Old games smell like ozone; this comes with the hobby". Well, okay, but I'm concerned.
I'm posting some pictures of the monitor and HV unit just in case anyone can see something obvious...
Any ideas?


