Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Asteroids Deluxe resurrection
ChadTower:
WOO!
I opened it up, taped both cutoff switches closed, and it powered up. Now I get lit LEDs and 6 tones. 5 high tones and 1 low tone.
Now to crack the manual and see how to work with that, I assume that's an unhappy 6th ram IC.
danny_galaga:
hoolydooly youre a fast learner, chad!!
one tip for checking fuses. dont just look at them. no else mentioned this but the best way to be sure is to check continuity with your new multimeter. sometimes fuse filaments just have a hairline crack and its hard to tell by eye...
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on October 19, 2004, 08:22:50 am ---hoolydooly youre a fast learner, chad!!
one tip for checking fuses. dont just look at them. no else mentioned this but the best way to be sure is to check continuity with your new multimeter. sometimes fuse filaments just have a hairline crack and its hard to tell by eye...
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Yeah, I'm not a newbie to electronics, I'm a newbie to electrical wiring. I don't have the multimeter yet, i'll probably order that on friday when I get paid.
Are there any real consequences to just replacing all of the fuses with new ones? Those suckers are probably 20 years old. Besides, I got power to a few places, so I know at least a couple of them are good. The control panel had power (love those red LEDs) and the main board had power or it wouldn't have tried to boot. I guess next I can try to toggle the selftest switch and see what happens there. I don't know if it was set to test or play.
I would have gone a bit further but the Sox game hit the 10th inning and my sobriety level hit past the point of playing with electricity.
RayB:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 18, 2004, 04:49:13 pm ---I'm going to assume here that the Asteroids manual will be accurate for Asteroids Deluxe, too...
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Depends. Was "Deluxe" just an enhancement to the original game board? (Like new chips or a daughter-card?) Or was it a completely dedicated new game? If complete dedicated, then there could have been some minor parts revisions somewhere...
But you're getting beeps! That's great.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: RayB on October 19, 2004, 10:10:28 am ---Depends. Was "Deluxe" just an enhancement to the original game board? (Like new chips or a daughter-card?) Or was it a completely dedicated new game? If complete dedicated, then there could have been some minor parts revisions somewhere...
But you're getting beeps! That's great.
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I'm not 100% sure yet. I haven't had time to really determine that. The Asteroids manual is at least useful enough to help me with specific troubleshooting items like what those beeps mean.
I don't know about the boards, but I do know that AD is a different cabinet than Asteroids. Different shape.
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