RE: Star Wars/Wells Gardner 6100 Problem

I just bought a bunch of parts from Digikey so on the same order I
*finally* got around to buying a handful of 8.2,10, and 12 V
bidirectional TVS's. In theory, those should "pass" anthing under the
cutoff voltage and clamp anything above it. Should make for a pretty
tough input protection circuit. I'll have to experiment with 'em...

-Clay
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> From: Franklin Bowen[SMTP:fbowen@balt.checkfree.com]
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 7:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: Star Wars/Wells Gardner 6100 Problem
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> Does the two diodes attached to the X and two diodes attached to Y mod
> make
> you safe from this type of problem (described in Gregg Woodcock's XY
> FAQ)?
> I've been thinking about doing this for some time now because MH and
> SW
> base explosions and Tempest flying to the next level apparently cause
> a LOT
> of stress (I can HEAR it).
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> "Dennis Shirk" <dshirk@godfrey.com> on 02/03/99 10:36:18 AM
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> Subject: Re: Star Wars/Wells Gardner 6100 Problem
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> So this sounds familiar, huh? Doh!
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> Would it be a good idea for me to start tracking down another 19" WG,
> or
> should I try to rule out possible other problems first?
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> BTW, if it is the problem you mentioned below, would the whole monitor
> have
> to be replaced, or is that something that can be repaired?
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> Thanks!
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> Dennis Shirk
> http://gameroom.godfrey.com
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> >For what it's worth, this is what killed my monitor when I was
> *first*
> >working on the kits-- hence the warning about switching with the game
> >on.
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> >Clay's techy idea on what can happen:
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> >I think you can switch and still have the code land in a segment that
> >refreshes the watchdog, but the vector generator crashes.
> >Max-deflection for very long = dead monitor. Someday I should
> probably
> >redesign the kit to have the bank-selection switch go into a PAL and
> >then have the PAL yank reset for a few clocks after the switch
> changes
> >states. I'd want to *really* fix those nasty old 2212 NOVRAMs at the
> >same time though by replacing it with some kind of EEPROM, so the
> >project gets larger and I keep putting it off...
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> >-Clay
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Received on Wed Feb 3 10:35:59 1999