Re: Atari Big Blue(s)?

Also, remember that many/most of the Midway games used a ferroresonant
power supply system - that's what the oblong silver high voltage capacitor
in the transformer chassis is for.

I've not ever seen one of the resonant capacitors go bad, so I would
generally avoid messing with it if the bulk DC supply is OK :)

More on ferroresonance at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_regulator#AC_voltage_stabilizers

Pretty cool design feature when you think about it - helps to "bullet
proof" the game from issues in the field. Even if it does make the
cabinet 50lbs heavier than it needs to be nowadays!

Brad

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, EvilJim wrote:

> D'oh! Ahh, TY Matt, I was confusing my projects. I had an Atari PS in the
> box with the things I had pulled from the Tron, but it's for my Tempest.
> Silly collector and his mess. Yeah, I have the ribbon cables already.
>
> @Kurt -
>
> I am not super concerned with perfect originality, but I am gonna give this
> PS a go before I give up on it. I don't think it is totally ruined yet and
> as this restoration (the electronics anyways) is a final project at school,
> doing the re-work is a higher value i the eyes of my instructors.
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