Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Asteroids Deluxe resurrection
ChadTower:
HA. Oddness. I saw some glow from the back of the monitor but nothing from the front. I need to clean off all of the pieces anyway, so I took off the bezel and translucent overlay... the black side flaps of the overlay had fallen on the monitor! No wonder I couldn't see ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. Let's see how it works now that I can actually see the monitor.
Heh, this is the first time I've taken an arcade cab apart.
ChadTower:
Well... not much from the monitor. Some faint glow in the neck, nothing else. No spot killer. No game audio... just a hum. No marquee light, yes to coin door lights. I'm going to wait until the big blue cap comes in next week to try again... in the meantime I can clean up the bezel, CP, etc...
RayB:
Chad, did you check the voltages on the AR-II? (cuz you might have to adjust it with the potentiometer).
Next comment: I too was very tempted to only replace certain parts until I found that the board worked, but then I thought... "I paid for all these brand new parts, what is the point in not using them all?" Think about it, you can either have a bag of new parts sitting doing nothing, just waiting for another of the old parts to fail, or you can use the whole kit, and keep a bag of spare old parts just in case. (You know, you'd have a reliable "rebuilt board" rather than just a "repaired board". Just keep the old parts.)
Another thought: If the voltage regulators are bad, they could blow some of your new parts! So might as well replace them too.
~Ray B.
ChadTower:
The main issue: there are those three square parts that are vertical... and only one in the bag. I'm not sure if they're all the same, and if not, which one that would be! Plus, the diode, not sure where that would go either since there's only one.
I don't know how to check the voltages on the ARII... :-[
RayB:
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