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Author Topic: Cruis'n World is BACK after 5 years!  (Read 1980 times)

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Cruis'n World is BACK after 5 years!
« on: July 14, 2021, 01:08:51 pm »
Hi guys

Around 2006 I posted a thread in here regarding my wife having bought a Cruis'n World sit-down with a defective monitor. Thanks to this forum I managed to fix the monitor by changing a resistor  :cheers:

Years went by and we moved to another house. Due to events (like narrow doors and stuff) we couldn't fit the machine in. So, a friend picked it up to go on route - at the other end of the country (Denmark). Now we just moved to yet another house, and Cruis'n World can fit in again. We just got it back from our friend.

I recently pulled away from working with hardware - this means that I try to not use my soldering iron, lab. power supply, microcontrollers etc. I try to keep to software to keep my life simple. I have worked a lot with personal hardware projects, also arcade and pinball machines, but decided to pull away. However, I will need to go back to HW now :)

When I turn it on, I have problems with the vertical hold. It is wobbling and squeezed. I am thinking capacitors. Please see the attached pictures. I am also weirded out about the HV-splitter(?) that is just hanging. I would really appreciate advice on what to do to fix the monitor.

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I am not keen on suggesting this, but should I consider an LCD? After all, this is not a classic game like Pac-Man or Galaga where scaling issues can wreck the gameplay. I have seen people that have installed 1.78:1 LCD TV's in their Cruis'n cabinets - this is NOT for me. I would not be good at coping with the stretching. However, if I could get a 24" - 26" 16:10 monitor then I would stretch the image less. What do you think?

Thanks for your time. Its really awesome to pick up talking about the same machine after so many years!


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Re: Cruis'n World is BACK after 5 years!
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2021, 01:16:45 pm »
Squirt some deoxit on all of the pots. Remember where they are set and turn them back and forth several times to get that deoxit in there.

Sometimes that will fix issues like you are describing.

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Re: Cruis'n World is BACK after 5 years!
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2021, 08:24:23 pm »
I’ve got a few videos on fixing the U5000 and what to inspect when working on it. Hopefully it helps you out.

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