Scratch Build: Star Wars Cockpit 'Rebel Edition'

[rablack97]

Que?

[jennifer]

I am convinced.  That is hella good PCB work.   

If he pulls this off I might have to start hunting for a compatible tube myself.

Im still looking into why the 6100 yoke, Apparently this Dez designed this board to be compatible with it [for whatever reason], the Tv had a yoke the was designed to deflect that particular tube. My only guess so far is he wanted to change the resistance of the vertical [again for whatever reason]....I will agree with you however, Maximus is doing a nice job, and it does look fun.

[ChadTower]

Having the monitor built isn't going to help at this point.  If the game PCB isn't booting then all you're going to get with the monitor is a spot killer anyway.

[Maximus]

aye, no doubt it's not going to be as easy as that lol.

Still waiting on some 18 awg to arrive to build the HV/neckboard wiring harnesses but then I should be at the end of the construction phase of the electronics. After that I have to transfer the 6100 yoke to the tube and then it will all be ready to hook together.

[Maximus]

HV board, neck board and wiring harness complete.

[rablack97]

 

[TKW4rr10r]

It's OK. Just keep telling yourself its magic and Maximus is a wizard. 

Can't wait to see this fired up.

[PL1]

It's OK. Just keep telling yourself its magic and Maximus is a wizard. 

Is that true, Joel?




Scott

[Maximus]

Well I do like fancy capes and sparkles.

[ChadTower]

I need to get to work finding one of those televisions.

[mcseforsale]

That's something COMPLETELY different. 

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

AJ

Well I do like fancy capes and sparkles.

[Maximus]

The magical 6100 yoke


Marked up the convergence rings orientation and position on the neck then carefully removed them along with the existing yoke


Put the 6100 yoke on in exactly the same place as the old yoke using the wedges as my position.  Then used my marks to put the Rings back


Getting closer to power on day

[mcseforsale]

Dude, that is crazy awesome.  Hope it works without much fanfare, if you know what I mean.

AJ

[Maximus]

Hope it works without much fanfare, if you know what I mean.

Yeah me too although I'm pretty sure I wont be that lucky. I don't even know if my SW board set works or not so there are a lot of unknowns to still overcome.

[ChadTower]

If the board set functions, and you're not in test mode, you should be able to coin up and play blind.  Note that this could still be the case with bad video output.  And you could have good boards, but a bad monitor, and that will look the same since both result in a spot killer on the monitor.

You would benefit GREATLY from a second working color atari vector boardset and a second working 6100 or amp.  That way you could test the parts independently.  Working on Atari vectors is a bucket of variables until you can verify either the boardset or the monitor actually works.

[Maximus]

Yep. Anyone got a SW cab they wanna drop off at my house for a while? I'll only pull it to pieces a few times. 

[jennifer]

     Even the pros cant "eyeball" that convergence [even though some say they they can] ,at the very least Id invest in a tester,http://kleininstruments.com/gauges/convergence-gauge/ or take it to a  service shop for alignment when it is  working.

[ChadTower]

Good luck finding a TV repair shop that will do any more than offer to drill a hole in a CRT for you.


Any color Atari vector boardset would work if you have the harness too... yeah, yeah, I know, easier said than done... but not knowing if you have a board output problem or a monitor input problem, or possibly both, is a pretty big hurdle here.

[Maximus]

Yep, well we'll see what explodes happens when I plug it in.

[jennifer]

Good luck finding a TV repair shop that will do any more than offer to drill a hole in a CRT for you.


Any color Atari vector boardset would work if you have the harness too... yeah, yeah, I know, easier said than done... but not knowing if you have a board output problem or a monitor input problem, or possibly both, is a pretty big hurdle here.

You would be surprised how smart some of those old dudes are, They don't deal well with random questions however, Just the job at hand...
As for the boardset,  A dual trace scope will verify the fact the board is sending the XY signals.

[ChadTower]

You would be surprised how smart some of those old dudes are, They don't deal well with random questions however, Just the job at hand...

They don't exist anymore in most places.  All of the independent TV repair shops here are gone.

[Maximus]

Deflection harness done.


Only a few minor things to do now.  Hook up the degauss strip and DAG spring and get these boards mounted nicely.

[jake_n]

You do some great work; your boards are very clean.

This thread is like the old time serials.  I'm getting anxious with anticipation as to what will happen next.   

Jake

[brihyn]

You would be surprised how smart some of those old dudes are, They don't deal well with random questions however, Just the job at hand...

They don't exist anymore in most places.  All of the independent TV repair shops here are gone.

I think my dad was the last in his area. They let him work way past any rational limit. Past 70, and was really doing little more than making coffee for the rest of the tv store in the morning, but if someone DID come in with a tube television, I'm betting he could repair it blind.

[Maximus]

Assembly complete!


Ready to start doing voltage testing and HV configuration

[TopJimmyCooks]

fingers crossed.  If that bad boy works trouble free you'll be crowned king of Vectorland.   

[Rick]

If that bad boy works trouble free you'll be crowned king of Vectorland.

OH YEAH!!! OH YEAH!!!

[Maximus]

I have a fluke 80K-40 HV probe coming from eBay so I can set the 19.5KV over voltage trip circuit, until that arrives I can't move forward much

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[ChadTower]

Fingers crossed.  Ankles, too, if it helps.

[jdbailey1206]

Well I do like fancy capes and sparkles.

Do you want to rephase that?   

[jennifer]

Fingers crossed.  Ankles, too, if it helps.

One foot on the floor at all times, And be home before midnight...Omg, you sound like my mother !!!!

[Maximus]

Aaaaaand.....

[Rick]

Aaaaaand.....

Spoiler alert: ".....we got nothin'. Nothin', nothin', nothin'."

Bloody L, I didn't know you had an accent.



Good luck with the troubleshooting.

[Maximus]

Yep suspecting the deflection board at this point as it showed no spot killer and no beam

[BadMouth]

Just part of the learning process. 

My philosophy is that I can do anything any professional can, but it will take me five times as long and I'll spend twice as much in parts.

[mcseforsale]

Yeah.  He has about 8 of them.   

AJ

Bloody L, I didn't know you had an accent.

[Maximus]

I adjusted the screen and focus pots on the focus block and got a good old white dot which makes me feel better,  at least the monitor is alive.

At this point I could be up against the obvious hurdle of a dead board set as I always suspected. I know all my voltages are correct at the power brick and the ar2 and I do have solid red lights on all game boards but no audio and no video signal points to this being a no boot board set at this point.

[jennifer]

      OMG....Jenn missed the big moment, I loved the big suspenseful way you turned the power on, [I may have actualy squealed noooo], Its close now, things rarely work right out of the box.

[mcseforsale]

I adjusted the screen and focus pots on the focus block and got a good old white dot which makes me feel better,  at least the monitor is alive.

That's awesome.  Knowing me, my wife would come in the garage and just find a pile of ash where I once stood if I was working on that thing.

Good on ya, mate!

AJ

[Maximus]

I managed to move the beam in both axis with the horizontal and vertical scale pots so that's a pretty good sign that the deflection board is okay. I have good neck glow on the tube and sharp focus thanks to the 6100 flyback focus block mod.

Looking very much like a dead game board right now which kind of kills my stride until I can find a suitable board to do more testing with