HHaase
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Can mail you a couple extras I have, PM me your address.
Williams System 6 Blackout Lock-on
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vipe155
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I'm wondering.... I have an old arcade board from the 90s that's dead from an old battery (CPS2). It has about 8 40 pin sockets on it. Any way I can desolder one of those off?
shardian
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It's good practice, but odds are you'll never get one off intact.
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vipe155
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Even so, no harm in trying. It's an old Capcom CPS2 board where the suicide battery died, and everyone tells me it's no good without sending it in somewhere.
Any other local sources beside Radioshack that would have sockets?
Lindsey
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I would probably go with a soldapullt. What are you doing now? I've had little luck with desoldering braid.
shardian
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Yeah, soldering braid has very limited usefulness to me. It requires way too much heat too. 9 times out of 10 it won't suck up old solder either.
You can try it, but be careful with it.
You can try it, but be careful with it.
beerorkid
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I recently picked some up, but have not used it. Thanks for the tip. Got one of the desoldering irons from radio shack and it worked really well for me.
This thread has been quite the adventure so far. Fun to follow along.
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vipe155
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Yeah, I know it's been real long-winded and I'm not trying to jam up the forum with my games problems. Even so, the help and experience I've been getting is invaluable. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, and maybe someone down the road can use this to help them.
HHaase
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Bah, if you had 6 different threads running for the same game, then you might be accused of clogging the forum. You're not even close to causing any congestion here, so don't worry about it.
And if you end up needing that 40pin socket, just let me know and I can get one on the way.
-Hans
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vipe155
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I'm going to see if I can get a 40 pin out of the arcade board first. I should be getting a new PIA and other chips tomorrow.
I bought some desoldering braid to go with the solder sucker I have. I have 37 out of the 40 holes desoldered and ready to go, but for some reason I can't get everything out of the other 3. So, I thought I would try something else.
I bought some desoldering braid to go with the solder sucker I have. I have 37 out of the 40 holes desoldered and ready to go, but for some reason I can't get everything out of the other 3. So, I thought I would try something else.
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vipe155
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Alright, I got the 40 pin socket off the old arcade board and soldered to the Blackout board. It wasn't fun or easy, but I got it off in one piece.
Tomorrow I'll be plugging the new PIA in there and crossing my fingers. If I have to, I'll replace IC18 or 17.
Tomorrow I'll be plugging the new PIA in there and crossing my fingers. If I have to, I'll replace IC18 or 17.
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vipe155
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After a lot of work tonight, things are looking a whole lot better. I started out trying to deal with the battery area problems. I had cleaned the area up and desoldered the corroded IC5 chip. I put in a remote battery holder, and a new IC5. Then I booted up the game and had something wrong. If I had the coin door closed at all, it would reset and lock up the game. So, I removed the new IC5 and tried another one. This time, no audit mode or lock up 
, but also the coin door buttons do not work. I have no idea what is wrong there.
Meanwhile, I put the old PIA chip in the new socket, got a game to start up (Yes!) only to have the game start scoring crazy points and pretty much freak out. So that chip was out in a hurry, and now with a new PIA in there I can actually play a game. No phantom switch closures or points, no other weird stuff. It actually played a game.
Things are looking better, but the non-working coin door is troubling (and I fear it has something to do with that IC5 area), as is the display problem I've been having. Thank you everyone for getting me this far.
I think I'll just start a new thread with any other issues I may have, as this one has gotten pretty large + I'm not having the coil issues anymore.
, but also the coin door buttons do not work. I have no idea what is wrong there.Meanwhile, I put the old PIA chip in the new socket, got a game to start up (Yes!) only to have the game start scoring crazy points and pretty much freak out. So that chip was out in a hurry, and now with a new PIA in there I can actually play a game. No phantom switch closures or points, no other weird stuff. It actually played a game.
Things are looking better, but the non-working coin door is troubling (and I fear it has something to do with that IC5 area), as is the display problem I've been having. Thank you everyone for getting me this far.
I think I'll just start a new thread with any other issues I may have, as this one has gotten pretty large + I'm not having the coil issues anymore.
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