Help identifying parts in my new free cab.

[Santoro]

OK, so I just got back from a roadtrip to TNT amusements in Philly.  I picked up another free Space Duel cabinet, this time with intact side art - but does need some carpentry or bondo. (It also had a mint marquee, good coin door, bezel, and tinted glass.)  He had another free one if anyone is interested.  

Anyway, I have attached a photo of the inside.  I am embarrased to ask this after being here for over 8 months, but I need help identifying the electronics.   I have guessed the following:

A- Isolation Transformer
B-Power Supply
C-Audio Amp

Am I right?

Also, if one of those is an amp, can I feed it line-level audio from my PC?  That would be sweet.

Thanks!

[SaiNRuB]

Cool man, tell me was it cool at the warehouse seeing all those possible restorations and such all in one place? What else did you grab?

Sorry I cant help with identifying those parts.

[Santoro]

There were a lot of cabs, and I even had a few hundered in cash in case I saw something that caught my eye.  Unfortunately the guy that showed me around was only authorized to sell/give the lesser known games on the list.  I would have bought on of the crappy Centipede cabs as a restoration project if he had let me.

It was also a bummer in a way, too.  It made me feel really old, seeing all of the games of my youth, beaten up and coated with a thick layer of dust - forgotten in some warehouse.  

It also made me think that I really need to kick my mother-in-law out and set up a game room!

[SaiNRuB]

Lol, tell her dont forget to write and give her cab fare. Its only the right thing to do.

Seriously though why was he only allowed to sell the lesser known stuff? Where they hoarding em for someone else? Oh well, i like Le space duel and the cabinet is cool to. It seems that black widow and space duel were very modern looking cabs for their age. I really like the lines and control panel on those.

[Santoro]

Well, he was dumping a bunch of stuff because the Fire Marshall complained that the warehouse was too full.  I imagine he was going to restore the others himself and sell them.  That is probably much more profitable than selling them to me cheap before restoration.

Just a guess though.

[OSCAR]

"A" is just the power switch.  If you pull that cover off, all that should be under it is just back of the switch.


"B" is the AC supply transformer that rectifies the the supply to 10.3VDC for the sound amp.  It is also the isolation xfmr that supplies AC to the monitor.


"C" is the Atari ARII board that is the game board power supply where the AC input from the xfmr is rectified, and it is also your sound amp.  With a little work you can replace the ARII with a switcher, but then you will need an amp for the sound.  On some games like Centipede, the ARII board supplies a +20VDC for the high score save, so unless you replace the EA-ROM on the gameboard with an updated +5V one, it won't save your high scores.  Not sure if Space Duel needs that, though.

[Santoro]

Ok, Thanks Kelsey.