October 13, 2009

I was leaving out a small, what I thought to be insignificant, fact to my BurgerTime story.  I mentiooned I used a power supply from my Super Pac-Man.  However, what I failed to mention was there were actually 2 power supply boards, one installed in the Super Pac-Man machine and a 2nd laying loose in the machine.

When I was testing the 2 boards for the -5v I was missing, I accidentally shorted a couple of pins.  After a small spark, there was nothing showing on the -5v pin.  So, I tossed it to the side, thinking I did some major damage to it.  I thought the power supply I ended up installing was the one installed in the Super Pac-Man, but apparently I was wrong.

While at work today, it hit me that I never bothered to check the fuses on the shorted board.  When I finally made it home, I checked the fuses and they were reading nearly the same on both boards.  But one of the fuses was just off enough that it caught my attention.  So I switched it out, hooked up the power, and wouldn’t you know it, I got my -5v.  I threw the board in the machine, hooekd up all my wires, flipped on the power and… no buzzing!  The picture came up fine and the sounds played loud and clear.  Now, I have a fully working BurgerTime that I picked up for a song.  I could probably easily quadruple my money, but this is one of the games I want in my game room.

There still is the problem of the buzzing.  I intend to hold onto the spare boards and figure out what’s causing the problem on at least one of them so I can have a backup.  Rebuild kits sell for $20 + shipping, so I might go that route and completely rebuild one to keep back just in case.

Now I just need to clean up the cabinet and find somewhere to put it.

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