Sega Indy 500 4 seats

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Mike A:
Yeah. I really like the Saturn.

I rigged it to be JAMMA compatible so I can use it in my arcade cabs.

It is fun to play vertical SHMUPS with the Saturn on my vertical candy cab monitor.

Mike A:
I pulled the monitor chassis for seat number 1.

The display has several issues.

I am going to clean it up, cap it, and inspect the flyback. There is a pretty decent buzzing sound. It might need to be replaced.

I will reflow all of the header pins just to be thorough.

After that I can hook it back up and see if basic maintenance fixed the problem.

If that is not the case, I have other working chassis I can swap to try and start ruling stuff out.

Mike A:
Oh ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. More burned up parts.

I will take a bunch of pics as I cap and service this monitor.

Sometime this weekend I will post.

Mike A:
Okay. So I have been very busy, but I promised I would post some pics so....

I pulled the chassis for seat 1 and put it on my bench. I have a spare tube in my shop.

I hooked up my TPG and the picture was all squirrely and would not lock. That was not the problem when it was in the game.

I decided to ignore that for now.

I let the monitor run for a few minutes and did a touch test of components. One transformer was really hot to the touch. Not a good sign.

Well look at that. 150 degrees. Way too hot. I desoldered the transformer. Toasty!

I just happen to have a spare identical chassis that does not work. I swapped transformers and this one is cool to the touch after ten minutes.

Next I replaced all of the electrolytic capacitors. For those who don't know, you can get those in a handy kit or source them yourselves.

I finished up and plugged the chassis back into the spare tube and...

---smurfing--- ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

Okay. Check my work. One leg on one cap had an iffy solder job. I reworked it and...

Hooray.

Now I just have to dial in the screen position, size, sharpness, and colors and such.

The hard part is over. No more buzzing and no more pulsating picture.

After all that my buddy pulled his truck out of my barn for the summer. I went to his house and ate burgers and got drunk.

Hopefully this post is pretty coherent. I didn't drink too much...I don't think.

Mike A:
I know I still have to start posting the JAMMA tutorial.

I will hopefully start that tomorrow.

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