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My PPII went black screen on me. One of the ARII boards looks fried. Anyone here fix these and bulletproof as much as possible? Or maybe there's a kit that's pretty easy? Thanks for any help.
Mrbill08, best there is for A/R boards. Full recap, very thourough testing.
 
My PPII went black screen on me. One of the ARII boards looks fried. Anyone here fix these and bulletproof as much as possible? Or maybe there's a kit that's pretty easy? Thanks for any help.

The root cause of that is not the AR itself, but rather the edge connector fingers on the game boards getting a layer of oxidation built up on them. This issue has been discussed in many threads here, and is common to Atari games.

If you get the AR's rebuilt without fixing the root cause, it'll just happen again eventually.

The solution (in addition to replacing that burned 10-ohm 1/4 watt resistor, and replacing the 2N3055 bottlecap, which should be done on all original AR's) is to get a fiberglass pen and some DeOxit, remove and separate both boards in the game board stack, clean all fingers with the fiberglass pen until they are shiny, clean the residue off with Goof Off or isopropyl alcohol, then apply DeOxit to them. Links to what you need below.

PS - I also refurb AR's.


 
The root cause of that is not the AR itself, but rather the edge connector fingers on the game boards getting a layer of oxidation built up on them. This issue has been discussed in many threads here, and is common to Atari games.

If you get the AR's rebuilt without fixing the root cause, it'll just happen again eventually.

The solution (in addition to replacing that burned 10-ohm 1/4 watt resistor, and replacing the 2N3055 bottlecap, which should be done on all original AR's) is to get a fiberglass pen and some DeOxit, remove and separate both boards in the game board stack, clean all fingers with the fiberglass pen until they are shiny, clean the residue off with Goof Off or isopropyl alcohol, then apply DeOxit to them. Links to what you need below.

PS - I also refurb AR's.


Thanks yeah. I was perplexed because my edge connectors looked great. Then upon further inspection when putting the rebuilt ARII's back in I found a bad wire connection in one of the connectors going into the the ARII that had burned out. Everything working fine now I'm thinking/hoping that was it.
 
Thanks yeah. I was perplexed because my edge connectors looked great. Then upon further inspection when putting the rebuilt ARII's back in I found a bad wire connection in one of the connectors going into the the ARII that had burned out. Everything working fine now I'm thinking/hoping that was it.

Yep, that would have done it.
 
Hello, had surgery on my hands recently so I am unable to do any soldering or bench work for a while.

Looking for some help with the following PCBs, if anyone knows of anyone working on any of this:

Ms. Pac Man x 2 sets
Sega Turbo x 5 sets (only need two sets, the rest are for parts or will end up ditching them)
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Junior
Possibly will need a 720 set looked at, though I am going to try and finish this one myself
 
Hello, had surgery on my hands recently so I am unable to do any soldering or bench work for a while.

Looking for some help with the following PCBs, if anyone knows of anyone working on any of this:

Ms. Pac Man x 2 sets
Sega Turbo x 5 sets (only need two sets, the rest are for parts or will end up ditching them)
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Junior
Possibly will need a 720 set looked at, though I am going to try and finish this one myself
mrbill08 is your man for sure on the Ms. Pac and DK/DKJR. Can probably do the others too.
 
anyone know who repairs DATA EAST ; specifically Captain America and Avengers.


it's a video issue
 
Also am looking for someone to have a look at an Elevator Action pcb set I just got in. Not sure anything is wrong with it, but worth having eyes on it.
 
Have 3 monitors that need some attention that I clearly can't provide. I'm in the SF Bay Area.

1. Color problem on Robotron.
2. Dim monitor on Defender.
3. Asteroids Deluxe cocktail has a problem with distorted vectors in the center of the screen.
 
It's been quite some tme since I roamed these halls. Wondering who, if anyone repairs Asteroids and vector monitor boards? My Asteroids PCB had the magic smoke come out of a voltage regulator and frankly just want to have it fixed and fixed correctly. Thanks in advance!
 
It's been quite some tme since I roamed these halls. Wondering who, if anyone repairs Asteroids and vector monitor boards? My Asteroids PCB had the magic smoke come out of a voltage regulator and frankly just want to have it fixed and fixed correctly. Thanks in advance!
nrbill08 is your repair specialist for Asteroids for sure.
 
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