RE: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored

Did the original SEGA cabinet have burnt power supply connectors? That was
the area where you got the ground failure that led to spectacular monitor
failures. Did the ground braid connect to the common of the power supply?

John :-#)#

At 12:19 PM 31/01/2003 -0500, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

>All Star Trek cockpit cabs have this by default... a heavy wide flat
>braided ground cable. I'd imagine that the genuine Star Trek uprights
>had something similiar... but the conversions may sorely lack in that
>area.
>
>Anyone ever had a grounding problem in a cockpit or genuine Sega upright ?
>
>-- Curt
>
> >Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:41:45 -0500 (EST)
> >From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
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> >Subject: RE: VECTOR: Star Trek Sit-Down Finally Restored
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> >On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On the talk of flaming G08 monitors... has anyone ever actually seen
> >> it happen... ????
> >
> >I asked this question a few years ago. The answer was a resounding yes.
> >
> >This happens when there is ground drift between the game boards and the
> >monitor. Installing a very thick ground cable between the power supply, game
> >PCB, and monitor goes a big way to preventing this.
> >
> >
> >
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