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mcfreak:
Picked up a non working Asteroids Stand up in pretty bad shape at the Super Auction.

Couple of interesting questions/comments:


* At some point the sides were cut in half about 3/4 the way up by the monitor.  Why in the world would someone do that?  We have been perplexed about this since the purchase and just can't figure it out.

* Its a double PCB board with double 30-40 pin adapters going between the boards.  Is that normal? I haven't seen an asteroids board that was a "double" board.

I got about 3 hours with the one I got at the auction, re-soldered the loose capacitor and repaired the power switch.  Got it to power up but it blows Fuse F3 on the power supply.  The Marquee light works and I get a red light on the monitor board...

It's a really weird board though.  It wasn't what I expected when I opened it up.

These are general cabinet pics:

mcfreak:
Okay, found a bad fuse on the monitor and replaced which made the red "spot" killer go away.  I am still blowing the F4 fuse when the PCB is attached.

Here is the one in question.  Should I go down the path of cleaning and reseating all the rom chips?

Some of the cuts/repairs, monitor...

Austin.Wolff:
You might as well.  I've heard of it working pretty well.

Paladin:
Have you tried figuring out what is powered from that fuse?  You could try disconnecting the control panel and coin door and see if it comes up, maybe there's a stripped or crossed wire that's shorting.

mcfreak:
I unplugged the monitor, Marquee, Controls, coin door, just leaving the PCB board(s) plugged in and it blows.  Without the PCB and but with everything else plugged in it doesn't...

Gonna do some cleaning and there might be a capacitor that is completely blown off of the PCB...

I also need to check the voltage again to make sure it is pushing what it should be.  I am going to take a picture of the PCB to see if anyone knows if it is even Asteroids...  :dunno

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