No More Mistakes With Arcade Game

We were confident that people would want to rent arcade games from the month, but truth be toldwe had no idea how to work on them. Before we knew it our launch was a month off and we'd managed to collect about 100 games, but only 10 of them worked!
All of our monitors would exhibit a scrambled picture on the screen. It was super frustrating since we had no idea how to fix it. We almost missed our launch, but we finally clued in on what was causing our probablem once we discovered about monitor sync 101 and realized that they sometimes need to be hooked up differently depending on the game. On that day, we must have turned on at least 20 games, that we had put a good deal of hard work into, but were missing this final piece of this puzzle so as to have the ability to play them. This very small chunk of knowledge, gave us the games we all had to get started and was enough to keep us motivated to continue learning how to correct problems.
Five years later, I spend more time researching arcade repair, then I ever spent studying in college and the instruction continues to repay.
For the last few years, we've had a mean bug that's crept into our fleet. The games would work great after refurbishment, but three to six months later obtaining them turned on, they would all start to fail. After we measured the voltage running the matches, we would always observe a 0.2 to 0.5 fall in the 5V voltage and could not quite figure out why the PCB board seemed to suck up electricity.
To solve the symptom, we would raise the energy supply to operate hot and that would be helpful for another 3 to six weeks before the power supplies would burn . After running into this mystery a couple of times, we began to put the matches into deep storage until we could find out why they kept failing. Since we assumed, it had been caused by bad circuit boards trying to draw too much energy, we missed something much more obvious.
After cleaning the chips, it might sometimes assist, but this bug was able to throw at 20 of our games. Well now our Mortal Kombat 2 started to display exactly the very same symptoms and quite frankly if we pull this one by the fleet, our clients will riot, so that I sat down to get to the root of the case of the drop in voltage.
To do this I took my voltage meter, measured the electricity at the power supply and then began tracing the 5V line and measuring wherever I could touch wire. When I measured the electricity before it went to the edge connector, I saw that the voltage had dropped. I now suspected the connector indoor jungle gym equipment between the wire and the power supply. As soon as I crimped over the end of the line to place on a brand new one, I instantly saw what my problem was.
We love getting a good deal and I would be happy to bet you a quarter, so which you cannot find a better deal on the jamma harnesses that we buy. Unfortunately, it looks like we may have gotten what we paid for them.
From the outside, the harness looks like it uses a thick 18 gauge wire to conduct the power to the board. That's a whole lot of metal to conduct a small amount of voltage. It is part of why I never suspected that it was our culprit.
Once you start it up however, you can see that from the exterior it seems 18 gauge, but on the inside it's short quite a bit of metal. The solution was simple, run a thicker wire from the power supply to the harness and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade at the Jack of All Trade showthis weekend.
While this easy bug should have been seen sooner and has caused us a great deal of headaches, it's also incredibly exciting to figure out the origin of our difficulty and to understand that with hardly any work, we have another 20 awesome matches back on our site . Learning to fix arcade games has never been simple and your education never really ends, but every time you solve a mystery, the following game gets easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other people who have run into similar problem, can save the exact same aggravation by A.) double assessing the cable you're using when you can't receive your voltage to journey cleanly from your power source into a circuit boards and B.) paying only a little bit better quality jamma harnesses.