Re: Atari Big Blue(s)?

Are you trying for an accurate restoration or a reliable game? If your
goal is a reliable game I would replace the power supply with a
switching supply. There are a few places that sell an adapter harness
for Tron. It's a lot easier than trying to keep those original supplies
working -- always seems like a cap is drying out.

Going the restoration route is doable too -- just more frustrating.. :)

Kurt

EvilJim wrote:
> Seeing as I thought it best to make sure I had good juice before I
> looked for other problems in the Tron, I have been working on the
> PS/power section of the Tron. Reading up on common issues, things to
> look for and so on, I have come across the articles and comments about
> Big Blue.
>
> The part that confussles me when I look into my cab is that I don't
> appear to have one. What I do have are big blue caps, two of 'em
> about the size of a fist, in the filter ass'y part of the power
> system. Is this pair, taken together, considered as Big Blue, or is
> there also a third cap that is Big Blue? If the pair is not the Big
> Blue mentioned, do they also need replacement, considering they fit
> the bill for possible victims: big, blue and old?
>
> (I will be working on getting a camera for making some of this easier
> in the future...I hope.)
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Received on Tue Oct 2 13:46:37 2007