On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Josh McCormick wrote:
> The reason I ask is that my older brother was an arcade tech many years
> ago for Chuck E Cheese. He complained that when the manager would flip the
> breakers to turn on all the games, (as I remember) that the Star Wars unit
> would often blow a diode in the deflection board. It had to be turned off
> and on individually from other games.
Ah -- mised the all at once part. I have four of the nine on a power strip
switch that come on at once, the rest I turn on individually. A large
number of games turned on all at once will make quite an initial surge
current. 3-4 is probalby OK, but I would turn all 9 of mine on at once.
Possibly with the Star Wars, due to them all comming on at once, the initial
voltage was low ? Would that cause something to blow ?
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WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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