Ahhh Memories
by DotCom on Sep.16, 2009, under Arcade, Crack 4 Geeks
Recently at work we had an arcade game down and I remember my good old days of working with A&A Services in the southern region of the US on the arcade games they supplied to many military installations down there. Well got to dig into an old Wells Gardner monitor which are popular for use in many of the arcade games in the industry. This game was from the 80’s, so when opening it and looking at the board it brought the memories flooding back. It was pretty sweet that I didn’t need a flowchart to check the components as I remembered most of them. This monitor needs a cap kit but other than that the humor of the issue was that the board ended up good to go. What ended up being the problem on this monitor was the cabinet had been rewired and they drove the monitor power from two switches in the cabinet and the one switch had somehow knocked itself into the off(non service mode) position. The Service switch for the door had been remounted due to the fact the door was warped and wouldn’t hold it in properly. Pulled it out back into service mode and bingo. A few adjustments later, its back up and running. But for you techies I got to digging around and found a few things that can help you troubleshoot your old arcade games and monitors.
A little how a raster monitor works
Some Randy Fromm videos(Serious arcade genius)
