the other day a PACMAN cocktail died :(

[delta88]

ok, well I picked up a pacman cocktail needing a cap kit about a year and a half ago for next to nothing The game is near mint and after a recapping it played great.

Well tragedy struck last week when I turned it on only to get no picture and a smell of burning electronics. Upon opening the game up everything looks great and I have 128AC to the monitor pwr but to high voltage whine from the monitor. At first you could play the game blind but then all of a sudden I couldn't a day or so later while.


I have taken the board out and vacuumed all of the dust out.  All of the fuse's check out good. Does this sound like time for another cap kit or is it time to replace more parts on the monitor chassis?

Is it possible that the power supply is starting to go? possibl time to upgrade to a switching supply instead of the old original?


thx
 d88

[Level42]

Your nose could point you in the direction where the parts have been burning. Then take a good look at the parts for any unusual looking one's....

[delta88]

Well it looks like I'm getting 128 AC to the monitor. As for the 2 fuses on the chassis the shorter of the 2 is blown. As for the rest of the DC voltage on the board I am currently in he process of grabbing the voltages for the power supply and checking them but at the moment it looks like the pwr supply may be on its way out.

[fredster]

I have a power supply for that.

It's that transformer, and it's heavy. 

You need to get an extention cable made and test that monitor from another game to see if it's the game or not.   If you have another machine, take that monitor out and test it in that game.  You can make some cables to crossover.

I would anyway.

If you need that p/s, PM me.  It will go cheap.