Re: Input Protection Circuit for early WG 6100

From: Kevin Moore <talon.k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jul 07 2011 - 14:32:13 EDT

You may want to also have a look at this. It's still a few months out, but
I've seen the protos and it's nice.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=171709

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ken Sumrall <k_lists@scrapheap.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Well, I'm back on an arcade restoration kick. These seem to happen every
> few years... :-)
>
> A friend and I recently bought a Tempest and Space Duel for $100. They
> were
> stored in the back of a garage for 15+ years, and are filthy (mice lived in
> the
> Space Duel at one point, yuck) but appear to be complete. Nothing a major
> cleaning, monitor rebuild, power supply checkout and some futzing with the
> game board can't fix. :-) So far we've spent 3.5 hours cleaning Tempest,
> and
> it now looks really good. Now we're onto fixing the monitors.
>
> The WG 6100 in the Tempest has the 2nd rev boards with the built-in input
> protection circuitry. However, the WG6100 in the Space Duel has the early
> rev P314 board, and does not have the input protection circuit riser card
> installed.
>
> Looking through the archives, I see Steven Gregory from arcadeshop.com
> posted on Oct 15, 2009 and said he had 6 bare boards he was given and was
> offering to members of the list. If Gregory or anyone else still has one,
> I'd appreciate it if you'd sell me one. A bare board is best, as I intend
> to duplicate it using Eagle Cad, and make the gerber files available to
> the community for free so more could easily be made.
>
> BTW, many thanks to all the people who contributed to the WG 6100 FAQ.
> It's
> amazingly full of really good info, and I intend to make all the upgrades
> to
> my 6100 that it suggests, including putting in an LV2000.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> ___
> Ken
>
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