Dispair and delight - I got an Asteroids upright

[CRTGAMER]

I'm drooling, see leaf switches under the buttons! The only way to spin that ship!

Looks so nice. I want to get an Asteroids upright pretty bad. My favorite retro arcade game.

Little bit of tender love and you will have one very cool early Vector Retro!

[fedexin]

I'm drooling, see leaf switches under the buttons! The only way to spin that ship!

Looks so nice. I want to get an Asteroids upright pretty bad. My favorite retro arcade game.

It has some skin cancer on the CP, right where you place your left hand. Other than that, it's a beauty! It'll be for sale once I get her working just right.

[fedexin]

Little bit of tender love and you will have one very cool early Vector Retro!

I'm gonna have to take off the kid gloves, it bit the hell out of me today! I replaced the capacitors and transistors in the monitor, and felt some heat on a board inside it. It was from a large resistor, and it insta-burned my index finger. I checked it later with my infared thermometer and it read 400+ degrees. OUch.

[nickfil]

I'm drooling, see leaf switches under the buttons! The only way to spin that ship!

ha! I was thinking the same thing. Those are probably close to if not the original buttons. Sweet!

[CRTGAMER]

I'm gonna have to take off the kid gloves, it bit the hell out of me today! I replaced the capacitors and transistors in the monitor, and felt some heat on a board inside it. It was from a large resistor, and it insta-burned my index finger. I checked it later with my infared thermometer and it read 400+ degrees. OUch.

Well guess that resistor is still resisting your efforts, sorry bad attempt at humor. A hot resistor definitely is not shorted out, still cutting down the current the way it should.

A Flyback Test, BE CAREFUL
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/flytest.htm

[fedexin]

Not working yet, but so far I've rebuilt the entire deflection board in the monitor. That, only to realize there was no "Y" signal coming from the actual game board! I think I have it narrowed down to one IC chip on the board, fingers crossed until I find a replacement...

Check the action over at the KLOV boards, too much minutia to re-post!

Monitor thread: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=137243

Game thread: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthr ... ?p=1225875

[xxstatic]

Very nice acquisition

Here is a night shot of mine and others.



Picked up another vector project:



It didn't have game boards but should shortly

[girlracer]

congrats on the arcade. i have a bit of trouble myself buying arcades for my dad to fix. he's been an electronics tech ever since i was around. good luck getting it fixed i have 3 that need fixed myself.

[fedexin]

Update: I've sent the monitor out for repairs, and I'm STILL waiting for it to come back. Gah!

[fedexin]

I got the monitor back from Chad at monitorboss.com. It works great! I reassembled the monitor (you send Chad everything but the tube) and ended up having to adjust the yoke a bit after assembly to get the picture centered.

Here it is, video off-center:



It's for sale, as I don't have the room for it in my house. A fun project though!