Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
Recapped about half the audio board from ebay... ran out of 470uF caps. I'm running low on lots of caps, and having to use a lot of radials in place of axials, so it's time to order another bulk cap bag.
Interestingly, my son got an "electronics kit" for xmas. I figured it's the standard build a light circuit with some jumpers and a tiny bulb thing. It's not! He whipped it out tonight and it's full of real parts. Real caps, resistors, transistors, pots, LEDs... hell, I'm sitting here replacing 4.7uF caps on the audio board and he's playing with 4.7uF caps upstairs! :laugh2:
Best part is he's actually grasping the concepts faster than I am. We're going to have to sit down with this thing on sunday and spend some hard time building the projects. I'll probably learn just as much as he does.
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 19, 2009, 08:40:59 pm ---
Interestingly, my son got an "electronics kit" for xmas. I figured it's the standard build a light circuit with some jumpers and a tiny bulb thing. It's not! He whipped it out tonight and it's full of real parts. Real caps, resistors, transistors, pots, LEDs... hell, I'm sitting here replacing 4.7uF caps on the audio board and he's playing with 4.7uF caps upstairs! :laugh2:
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I raided my old circuit kit about a year ago. Probably had $150 worth of resistors and ceramic capacitors. Very few electrolytic though...
Level42:
First thing to learn from a kit like that: do not reverse electrolytic caps. Show him wit a really small one. And wear some eye protection.
You know it's going to happen sooner or later.... :D
ChadTower:
Erf, now I'm getting some folding in the top 1/2" of the image... so I guess I have to recap this monitor. I would swear I did a couple years ago but it's hard to tell now because the chassis got so much basement dust on it. May as well bite the bullet and do it. Have to pull it to deal with that width issue anyway.
ChadTower:
Have it about half capped and ran out of a couple types of needed caps. Putting in another bulk cap order from GPE.
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