We were convinced that individuals would want to rent arcade games by the month, but truth be toldwe had no idea how to work on them. Before we knew it our launching was a month off and we had managed to collect about 100 matches, but only 10 of those worked!
We knew enough to refurbish a good chunk of those games, but we kept hitting the same symptom over and over again. All our monitors would exhibit a scrambled image on the screen. It was super frustrating because we had no clue how to fix it. We nearly missed our launching, but we eventually clued in on what was causing our probablem when we discovered about monitor sync 101 and realized that they sometimes need to get hooked up differently based on the game. On this day, we have to have turned on at least 20 matches, we had already put a lot of hard work into, but were missing this final piece of this puzzle in order to be able to play them. This very small chunk of knowledge, gave us the games we needed to get started and was enough to keep us motivated to continue learning how to fix problems.
Five decades later, I spend more time studying arcade fix, then I spent studying in college and the instruction proceeds to repay.
For the previous few years, we have experienced a mean bug that is slipped to our fleet. The matches would work good following refurbishment, but three to six months later getting them turned , they would all start to neglect.
To fix the symptom, we’d boost the power supply to run hot and that would be helpful for another 3 to six months before the electricity supplies would burn out. After running into this puzzle a couple of times, we began to put the matches into deep storage until we could figure out why they kept failing. Since we presumed, it had been caused by bad circuit boards trying to draw too much energy, we overlooked something much more obvious.
After cleansing the chips, it might sometimes assist, but this bug was able to throw at 20 of our games. Well today, our Mortal Kombat 2 started to display the same symptoms and quite honestly if we pull this one by the fleet, our clients will riot, so I sat down to get into the origin of the event of the fall in voltage.
To achieve this I took my voltage meter, measured the electricity at the power source and then started tracing the 5V line and measuring where I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it even went into the edge connector, I noticed the voltage had already dropped. I now suspected the connector between the cable and the power source. The moment I crimped on the end of the line to place on a new one, I immediately saw what my problem was.
We love getting a fantastic deal and I’d be willing to bet you a quarter, which you can’t find a better bargain on the jamma harnesses that we purchase. Unfortunately, it seems like we may have gotten exactly what we paid for them.
That is a whole lot of metal to conduct a small quantity of voltage. It’s part of why I never suspected it was our culprit.
Once you open this up though, you can see that from the exterior it seems 18 gauge, but on the inside it’s short quite a lot of metal. The solution was simple, run a thicker cable in the power supply to the tap and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade game at the Jack of All Trade showthis weekend.
While this easy bug should have been spotted sooner and has caused us a lot of headaches, it is also incredibly exciting to figure out the origin of our difficulty and to understand that with very little work, we have another 20 awesome games back on our website. Learning to correct arcade games hasn’t been easy and your education never ends, but every time you solve a mystery, the following game becoming easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other men and women who have run into similar problem, can save the same headache by A.) double assessing the wire you’re using when you can’t get your voltage to journey cleanly from the power supply into a circuit boards and B.) paying just a little bit more better quality jamma harnesses.
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