Xenophobe lost power- no HV no sounds

[Terry68Firebird]

Ok my xenophobe worked fine then I moved it and well it's not working now…
- no HV at monitor
-not playing blind - no noise at all
- it does not get 120v to the monitor
- fuse in power supply block is good-

I "assume" the original Power supply needs rebuilt but you can get a switching one with adapter for less that parts to rebuild so I'm thinking going that way…

But I don't think that'd solve the no 120 V to monitor.

Any thoughts on troubleshooting / fixing this?

Thanks
Terry

 

[demogo]

There's no sign of life? Do you have a DMM that you can check voltages with? I can't see much of your pictures on my phone, but none of those loose cables should be plugged in anywhere? Have you checked to see if there are any safety interlock switches that are causing the power to be cut off?

I'd start at the power supply outputs -- is there any power there?

 

[Terry68Firebird]

thanks for the reply- I do have a digital multimeter- it was working fine for years (only thing I did when I first got it was add a new plug and rep in a molex power connector that was shorting/ bad connection - after I did that and rebuild joysticks it worked like a champ-I'll take a look again today and see if I can trace the power issue down and take a video / better pics-
Really appreciate the help-

 

[demogo]

No worries. If nothing is getting power, it's probably going to be an easy fix.

 

[wugly]

Do I hear the inevitable it might just be a fuse? you need a meter to really check the fuses and to do any diagnostics at all and then a logic probe afterwards

 

[mecha]

No worries. If nothing is getting power, it's probably going to be an easy fix.

no power is better than low power.

 

[ArcadeTechGW]

Go to the cord. Disconnect it from the outlet, and then carefully go over the cord. I'll bet you'll find the primary cut or a neutral cut. Any slice needs to be looked at. Any bulge is suspect.

You go through the cord and come up with nothing - go inside the game. Plug in the cord, and go to where the cord comes into the game, go to the first connections and see if you have power there. If not, replace the cord.

There may be a main fuse - you are describing a dead game after a move, which is generally a bad cord or a dead outlet.

 

[Terry68Firebird]

Go to the cord. Disconnect it from the outlet, and then carefully go over the cord. I'll bet you'll find the primary cut or a neutral cut. Any slice needs to be looked at. Any bulge is suspect.

You go through the cord and come up with nothing - go inside the game. Plug in the cord, and go to where the cord comes into the game, go to the first connections and see if you have power there. If not, replace the cord.

There may be a main fuse - you are describing a dead game after a move, which is generally a bad cord or a dead outlet.

Yeah this has me perplexed- I get 120v at first point in the cab- and can follow trough fuse which is good- the voltage drops to 108 ish AC- I only get ~3v at the molex that comes from the transformer-

 

[ArcadeTechGW]

Yeah this has me perplexed- I get 120v at first point in the cab- and can follow trough fuse which is good- the voltage drops to 108 ish AC- I only get ~3v at the molex that comes from the transformer-

You have a broken conductor between those points.

The fuse connectors are corroded slightly, causing a voltage drop at the fuse.

Unplug the game. Check each conductor with an ohm meter.