Re: Omega Race board repair...anyone?

From: John Robertson <jrr_at_flippers.com>
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 01:17:49 EDT

True, they are serviceable, but I have found that they can take up to
twenty hours to fix with the massive extent of corrosion damage. Not worth
it. At least for a shop. Certainly the work that Clay did on his site based
on my research about dealing with battery corrosion can be successful, but
this is an UGLY board to troubleshoot due to lots of sockets and many IC's
near the battery. I have trouble believing that these boards can be
reliable (like more than a few months) based on the few corroded ones that
I have seen.

John :-#)#

At 09:51 PM 7/18/00, MKDUD@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/18/00 3:31:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jrr@flippers.com
>writes:
>
><< Any other suggestions while I'm checking this little guy out? >>
>
>The "Valid Power On Detect" in Omega Race is VERY similar to those found in
>Stern MPU 200's and Bally -35 pinball mpu's. When there is corrosion damage,
>this curcuit is often affected. You might want to check Clay's site (not
>"our" Clay on the Vectorlist, but this Clay is REALLY into pinball) :
>
>http://www.marvin3m.com/fix.htm
>
>Check out the section about repairing corrosion damage on Bally/Stern MPU's.
>This should get you started on the Omega race board repair. I rtecently
>repaired the boardset in my Omega Race CT, and being familiar with pinball
>MPU repair sure helped!
>
>MK
>
>TTYL
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