When I was a kid, I never had a chance to play ASTEROIDS...
I always played the game on console or PC...but everything changes when 3 years ago , on a trip to Orlando , I visited "Disney quest".
I found the cab there and played it for an hour and completely fall involve with the game
the vector monitor give a completely different experience...to a point that I cant play the game on MAME anymore
6 months ago I spot a cheap auction on ebay !!! cocktail version...but incomplete...
the monitor is missing the high voltage cage
the audio board look ok
no PCB
first i decide to give a little boost to the audio board and give it a new capkit
before
after
after that, do one of the most important thing when you have an old Atari cab, change the big blue
the big blue is the big capacitor in the middle of the power supply...
because it is in the psu block i have to take it apart ...
the black cap is the new one and the blue the old one...the color give it is name...the big blue
for the PCB, I didn't wan to mess around...I got a non working PCB and send it to repair...
a full check up and parts have been change...work like a charm now ...
now the most difficult...the monitor...
but I got lucky , I spot a guy selling a "go5" 15" exactly what I need, he say that the main board as received a capkit, but not the high voltage cage...
so I went back to school and got me the manual and Andy fromm arcade school book
after hours of reading, I am finally able to look at the monitor completely...I did some minor repair and also recap the high voltage cage...
but after 15 minutes the graphics are kind of blooming ...
I post in some forum, and I found out that it come from the high voltage diode from the high voltage cage...
I order 3 from bob Roberts just in case and voila
here a few pictures of the monitor
black and white vector monitor...
ok, now time to put everything back...
i also change the speaker and the volume control
now much more easy .....the cleaning part
got some new buttons
before:
after
time to power on:
yheaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it work !!!!
The picture is crystal clear ...
here few pictures of the table...
i also decided to do some deep cleening ...starting with the power block...
BEFORE:
AFTER:
