Re: Space Duel keeps blowing AVG chips

I swapped in a good AVG from my Gravitar board and have the SD board doing a
burn-in in my Major Havoc (Grav conversion) no narrow it down to the SD
cabinet (IE: power).

Thanks for the input - off to Bob Robert's I go!

-Steve P.

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From: "Al Warner" <al@alsarcade.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Space Duel keeps blowing AVG chips

> My SD was doing the same thing. I put one of Clay's replacement AVG
> boards in and it has been rock solid for 5 years now. I do believe it was
> a power problem. Clay's board has the overvoltage circuit on it so it
> shouldn't blow as easy. I would rebuild the ARII and do the Big Blue
> before trying another.
>
> -Al-
>
> Steve wrote:
>> My Space Duel has gone though 3 AVG chips in maybe 5 hours of actual 'ON'
>> time over the past year. Any ideas what I should be looking at?
>>
>> I had the machine on last night and was playing my Major Havoc right next
>> to it - all of the sudden the monitor went blank and the start buttons
>> both lit and stayed lit and the coin lockout coils started clicking.
>> Could this be power related? AFAIK the brick and AR2 boards are original
>> to the cabinet and have never been rebuilt whereas the SD board itself
>> came from Alex Yeckley at ElektronForge and was gone over.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> -Steve P.
>>
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