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Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« on: April 05, 2023, 07:39:00 am »
Buckle up.
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2023, 11:52:22 am »
Will the Captain pistol-whip Farva?   :lol




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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2023, 12:51:37 pm »
Yes...

Pics and video please!
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2023, 05:17:29 pm »
I pray it involves a step ladder and zip ties for the basement wiring.

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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2023, 07:57:05 am »
I never worked on a black and white monitor before.

It was mostly fixing broken and bad traces. The PCB is fragile.

I also recapped it.





I didn't have a way to output a black and white composite signal in my shop.

So I grabbed an NES and made an adapter to plug it into the monitor.

And as with all of my work,

credit goes to Arroyo and Bperkins01 for help, and a kick in the ass when needed.
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2023, 08:07:24 am »
I recently drove to Des Moines, Iowa for an arcade auction. The auction sucked balls, but we found this place. #worthit.






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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2023, 09:42:09 pm »
What game do you need a B&W monitor?🤔🤔🤔
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2023, 09:52:11 pm »
It was for Skydiver.
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2023, 09:34:01 pm »
Damn.... now I have to go to Iowa....
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2023, 06:33:40 am »
Building an Asteroids cab.





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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2023, 06:35:36 am »
Bought a waterlogged Asteroids cab  for 100 bucks.



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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2023, 06:38:39 am »
The power brick was pretty crusty.





Some percussive maintenance was necessary to bag things into shape.

It looks much better now and it outputs all of the correct voltages.

Some people really clean up the transformer. I don't like to mess with it too much.

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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2023, 06:40:15 am »
I messed with the AR board.

The 5v line is showing 14V. Hmmmm not good.

Probably the 5v regulator. Stay tuned...
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm »
Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2023, 03:42:31 pm »
Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm
Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?
No room is safe from conversion at Mikey’s place.
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2023, 03:42:55 pm »
Great work all around, it will be fun to see that thing come together.
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Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2023, 04:28:04 pm »
Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm
Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?

Yup. Plenty of space.
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