Re: If I find the guy who designed the Star Wars EMI board . . .

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From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: VECTOR: If I find the guy who designed the Star Wars EMI board . . .

>
> I'm going to shoot him. Right with the guy who wrote the schematics.
> Beautiful piece of fiction they are.
>
> First: The schematics show + and - 5 being sourced by the side of the board
> that can only produce +5. Check. Double check. OK -- that should just be two
> +5 pins, since they both connect to the same trace. No big deal.
>
> Diagnosis was dead on: Pin B +5 power is worn, a bit scorched, and not
> making contact. But pin 2 -- right under it -- should also have +5, and
> that's making contact just fine. No scorching there . .
>
> Of course not. On the EMI board, pin 2 doesn't connect to anything, while
> pin B supplies +5 to both pins 2 and B on the main PCB.
>
> If that's not bad enough, the +5 they do pick up is the one that is shared
> with the AVG board.
>
>
> Aside from cleaning the contacts, is there any good reason NOT to also pick
> up power from the second +5 source ? It would seem the scorching is an
> indication a second +5 source is needed.
>
>
>
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> ==========================================================
> Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
> http://www.westnet.com/
>

YEA!

If you find him, can you also take-out the guy who decided to use those shit edge-connectors.

so-far those edge connectors have ruined the following pcb's.

2 x missile command.
6 x tempest.
4 x I-robot.
? x battlezone. (i forget how many of these i had to jumpwire!)

the worst thing about this is that battlezone is 1979/80 and I-robot is 1984.
you would think they would notice and fix that stupid problem in months not years!

I now replace the edge connectors on EVERY atari game i repair.(just in case.)

L8r.

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Received on Thu Oct 19 05:52:25 2000