Re: Asteroids losing voltage

My favorite on the ARs is when the traces burn on the main power and so the
game tries to draw through the sense lines. And takes out the tell-tale
resistor. *poof*

Kurt

>
> I have to agree with John here, a power supply that has a shot regulator will drop its voltage under load.
>
> -=Mark=-
>
> Jon Raiford wrote:
>
> > I didn't suggest that you disable the sense. I think you need to replace the regulator :) Someone else suggested disabling the sense. Of course, the sense seems to do more harm than good. I've seen so many Atari boards that have had the +5 and/or +sense wires soldered directly to the board because the edge connector was burnt to a crisp. I've seen a lot of Pole Positions like this.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > At 03:23 PM 12/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Thanks Jon. Will go do that right now. Just so I am clear on this, you want me to wire the sense line directly to the +5VDC so that it thinks it has +5 on the board and does not increase the voltage? No need to answer unless I have this screwed up. A no answer will mean "ya dummy... you want a picture!" ;-) Thanks again, Dean
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Received on Wed Dec 12 13:31:49 2001