Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Asteroids Deluxe resurrection
RayB:
--- Quote from: DarkKobold on October 22, 2004, 08:25:05 pm ---First get your board working, that is #1.
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Actually, first measure the voltages... If the AR1 board is pumping out more voltage than it should, well, it's gonna fry the main board.
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ChadTower:
I've been sidetracked by the World Series. Time to get back to this.
Question: Can I test it after unplugging all of the components from the power supply? As in, unplug the line after the fuse going to the panel, the marquee, the monitor, the board... I remember reading that you can't test a power supply that is not under load. What is the exact method I should be using? I picked up a multimeter and read the instructions, so I'm good with that... but as for some of the other things I'm a bit nervous.
ChadTower:
Okay, finally got back to this. I took the PCB out and took a good look at it... one of the chips I put back in had a pin sticking out. So I reseated that one properly, and now I'm back to the same RAM tones. Back where I started...
...but good news in that I'm taking the pcb and ARII over to someone tomorrow who may be able to help me figure them out.
ChadTower:
After playing with the PCB on a known working Asteroids Deluxe cab, we got the same RAM tones. Given that we didn't have that RAM chip on hand, my friend Rob pulled the chip out that was testing bad and installed a socket for me. I'm not the best solderer yet so this will be a big help for me.
We also tested the AR board. We took the voltage regulator out and tested it out of circuit, tested fine. We took the other regulators out, they tested fine. We replaced some diodes. The things don't test well in circuit, though, so I'm going to replace all of the caps on the board and see how that works out.
I have ordered 4 of the RAM chips and an AR rebuild kit from Bob Roberts.
fredster:
There are a couple of people who fix those asteroids boards.
I had Alex Yeckley fix mine for $75.00. It ended up more because the CPU was out, but he did a good job.
Bob Roberts has a guy that fixes them.
I'm bidding on a power supply on ebay. ARe you bidding against me? :o
If you are I'll quit.
They have them on there from time to time.
I have an asteroids deluxe and an asteroids cocktail.
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