Galaxy Dart Power Supply

[zudmsc]

Does anyone have a wiring diagram for either a Galaxy power supply or a 6300 to Galaxy power supply?  I am having trouble with one of my dart games.

Michael

[Ken Layton]

Arcarc is your friend:

http://arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Darts/Arachnid/

And here is the manual:

http://www.arachnidinc.com/support/docs/GalaxyManual.pdf

The factory tech support people are great in answering questions too:

http://www.arachnidinc.com/support/galaxy/

[zudmsc]

Thanks Ken.  The PDF's will help.  I already have the manual and tried to talk with the guys at tech support.

It is just really strange that Board B will work in cab A or B, but Board A only works in cab A.

You wouldn't happen to know the difference between game version 3.3 and 7.4?  I also have two different chips for the darthead.  One has a double bull and the other only a single bull.

Michael

[Ken Layton]

I don't know the main board differences, but there are some documents at Arachnid's website in the Galaxy section and in the archived "Tech Tips" newsletters.

Some Galaxy games were equipped with switching power supplies and some had analog linear power supplies. The wiring was different between the two and that's why Arachnid issued two different manuals for the Galaxy games.

We only had one Galaxy on our route and it came at the time we were switching our entire dart route to Medalist "DartStar" dart games instead.

[zudmsc]

Well I am still having power supply issues.  If anyone owns a Galaxy dart game if they could e-mail me that would be great.  I just need to know how your power supply is wired to the rest of the game.  I have two leads that I cannot get connected to get power to the darthead.

Michael

[Ken Layton]

Check out the various power supply schematics here:

http://home.comcast.net/~mtpacifico/_kenskorner/files/Arachnid%20Galaxy%20Dart%20Linear%20Power%20Supply%20Schematics.pdf

http://home.comcast.net/~mtpacifico/_kenskorner/files/Arachnid%20Galaxy%20Switching%20Power%20Supply%20Schematics.pdf

[tool4scs]

I have the original Arachnid Galaxy Top Gun Challenge dart board and recently it reboots during play.  What would be causing this to happen?

[Ken Layton]

In no particular order:

Bad power supply.

Bad connectors between power supply and game board.

Bad solder joints on power supply board and/or game board.

Loose chips on game board (reseat them).

[ed12]

omg ken that second 1 is a crow bar power supply...

ed

[tool4scs]

Thanks for the information, will check each of those suggestions out.  If it happens to be the power supply, do you know where I could get a replacement one?

[Ken Layton]

You can purchase the correct power supply from the parts department of your local Arachnid coin op dart game distributor.

Be sure you purchase the correct power supply as the Galaxy series used two completely different power supplies: Linear and Switching Regulator.