Nice work 👍i have a collins coin marquee from a cabinet as well. I think that was a South Carolina company Not sure how big that company was in the 80s-90s. Just curious
Yea, I think @LyonsArcade posted or maybe did a video referencing this company. I did find this reference.... On 14 November 1991, plaintiff Collins Coin Music Co. of North Carolina, Inc. ("Collins") brought this suit, seeking a declaratory judgment that video card games that they owned and operated were not illegal slot machines as defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306 (1993).
So the whole problem was because the Power supply Power Transistors Nuts weren't making good contact with the pcb contacts that need a fiberglass pen to clean up the pcb boards contacts? In the service manual for the arcade game it should say what the operating AC ripple voltage should be under operating load. What is the operating AC ripple voltage under load?
Our machine has over 155000 games on it (before being switched to Free Play - and it might have been on >1coin per game during some of its life, but who knows) and only slightly more screen burn. Our Big Blue and the other caps are still good (or at least not bad enough for the game to show any signs of bad caps) What threw me for a loop was the fuse holder for the +5V was corroded, sometimes but only sometimes bogging down the +5V, making the game crash which most of the time made the knocker solenoid lock on and blew the sound fuse, because someone replaced the 1A solenoid fuse with a 7A... Ours has the swearing marquee! Also "you should replace" (TM) the 30V Zener with a 24V one. All it powers is the knocker solenoid and the sound board amplifier which is only rated for a max of 27V... A few weeks ago the sound board went weird, all speech was replaced with s and sh sounds (only rarely vowels) - took me three weeks to find out it was a slightly dirty edge connector to the sound board. Very weird, I measured all the voltages and all the signal on the sound board and they were fine.
Wow that is a ton of plays. Maybe this one didn't get a lot because it says it has been down since 1986 with the video issue. Thanks for the clue about the Zener. I saw Riptor offers lower voltage one per request. I will look into ordering one.
@@jacklick It was bought from the US and had a credit button fitted when I fixed it in 2015. The solder on the PSU module was so bad you could just pull out the components. So my guess is it might have a few years of downtime every now and again since 1983, but ran much of that time.
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Nice work 👍i have a collins coin marquee from a cabinet as well. I think that was a South Carolina company Not sure how big that company was in the 80s-90s. Just curious
Yea, I think @LyonsArcade posted or maybe did a video referencing this company.
I did find this reference....
On 14 November 1991, plaintiff Collins Coin Music Co. of North Carolina, Inc. ("Collins") brought this suit, seeking a declaratory judgment that video card games that they owned and operated were not illegal slot machines as defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-306 (1993).
So the whole problem was because the Power supply Power Transistors Nuts weren't making good contact with the pcb contacts that need a fiberglass pen to clean up the pcb boards contacts? In the service manual for the arcade game it should say what the operating AC ripple voltage should be under operating load. What is the operating AC ripple voltage under load?
Yep, The only problem after rebuild kit was the collector not making contact with trace bia mounting nuts.
I haven't tested ac ripple under load yet.
Our machine has over 155000 games on it (before being switched to Free Play - and it might have been on >1coin per game during some of its life, but who knows) and only slightly more screen burn. Our Big Blue and the other caps are still good (or at least not bad enough for the game to show any signs of bad caps)
What threw me for a loop was the fuse holder for the +5V was corroded, sometimes but only sometimes bogging down the +5V, making the game crash which most of the time made the knocker solenoid lock on and blew the sound fuse, because someone replaced the 1A solenoid fuse with a 7A...
Ours has the swearing marquee!
Also "you should replace" (TM) the 30V Zener with a 24V one. All it powers is the knocker solenoid and the sound board amplifier which is only rated for a max of 27V...
A few weeks ago the sound board went weird, all speech was replaced with s and sh sounds (only rarely vowels) - took me three weeks to find out it was a slightly dirty edge connector to the sound board. Very weird, I measured all the voltages and all the signal on the sound board and they were fine.
Wow that is a ton of plays. Maybe this one didn't get a lot because it says it has been down since 1986 with the video issue.
Thanks for the clue about the Zener. I saw Riptor offers lower voltage one per request. I will look into ordering one.
@@jacklick It was bought from the US and had a credit button fitted when I fixed it in 2015. The solder on the PSU module was so bad you could just pull out the components.
So my guess is it might have a few years of downtime every now and again since 1983, but ran much of that time.