RE: tempest help

Steve,
        You might want to try replacing the POKEY chip that is connected to the
spinner signals. The tempest I bought had what looked like a bad spinner.
It turned out to be a bad pokey chip.

-Scott

At 08:34 AM 12/10/97 -0800, Ozdemir, Steve wrote:
>G'day folks,
>
>Along similar lines, I have some bad Tempest spinners. I'm assuming
>that the LED that shines through the wheel has gone bad. Does anyone
>know of a replacement part (or better yet a number that I could bring to
>my electronic's parts store)? Thanks!
>
> Steven S Ozdemir
> sso@dsc.com
>
>>----------
>>From: mayday19[SMTP:mayday19@IDT.NET]
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 1997 9:37 PM
>>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>>Cc: mayday19
>>Subject: tempest help
>>
>>I just picked up a Tempest UR that has a small prob. I will probably want
>>to sell it right away as soon as it is fixed as I already have a cabaret
>>Tempest ($500+shipping, this thing is REALLY clean). I did a big trade
>>and I didn't want it too much. :>
>>
>>I haven't looked at it yet, but the problem is that the game powers up
>>fine (monitor looks great), and you can start a game and fire and super
>>zap, but the spinner will not work. The guy I got it from said if you
>>start a game, remove the aux board connector and replace it, it will work
>>fine for as long as the machine is turned on. I tried this a couple times
>>and it worked. I've only looked at it long enough to try that so far, but
>>I'd figure I'd get a second opinion on it first..any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jeff
>>--
>>http://idt.net/~mayday19
>>
>
>
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Received on Thu Dec 11 18:09:16 1997