Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
My First Restoration - Galaga!
erlsjj:
Thanks, RayB. I'll try that.
Mauzy:
Wow. You sure work fast. Great find. My Galaga just died...
May I ask what you paid for that particular machine? (I never know when it is appropriate to ask...)
erlsjj:
No problem. I paid $200 for it (minus the 9 quarters I found inside heh heh!).
I'm really not that fast (but thanks!) - last night's postings were just a brief history going back to Thanksgiving Sunday when I bought the game. I actually only just moved it to my house last weekend. Before that it was at my friend's (that bought the Spy Hunter) warehouse since Thanksgiving so up to that point I was only able to work on the power supply board that I had removed from the machine.
I'm totally new at this, so any help or advise you or anyone else has would be greatly appreciated. I should have paid more attention in electric circuits class...
Sorry to hear your Galaga just died. What happened to it?
2600:
I don't like the looks of those jumper wires. You have a couple choices, start with the replacement 1N located
here: http://mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=07xx
or get a working board which isn't cheap.
I wouldn't start trouble shooting the board until you replaced 1N.
Also, the rolling screen may just be the monitor is out of sync. You may just need to adjust the sync on the back of the monitor.
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: erlsjj on December 17, 2008, 06:51:33 am ---No problem. I paid $200 for it (minus the 9 quarters I found inside heh heh!).
I'm really not that fast (but thanks!) - last night's postings were just a brief history going back to Thanksgiving Sunday when I bought the game. I actually only just moved it to my house last weekend. Before that it was at my friend's (that bought the Spy Hunter) warehouse since Thanksgiving so up to that point I was only able to work on the power supply board that I had removed from the machine.
I'm totally new at this, so any help or advise you or anyone else has would be greatly appreciated. I should have paid more attention in electric circuits class...
Sorry to hear your Galaga just died. What happened to it?
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Good deal!
I'm not sure yet. I've been having problems with it blowing out processors every couple weeks. Yesterday I turned it on and it came up with garbage and tones. It actually does something different every time I plug it in. I'm probably going to send it to GLS1 electronics for repair. I don't get anything in return for this, but if you can't get your board working, I highly recommend them. I'll get you a link in a little while. He has a stand alone website, but if you go on eBay you can buy his repair services for (I think) $100 plus shipping. This includes all parts and labor, you would want to let him know of that chip missing first though.
Have you looked at the other Galaga threads on this site to get a feel for the boards? Apparently these were manufactured with low quality chip sockets. I've found that out the hard way.
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