Re: Tempest boards playing blind (and worse)...help!

Your pretty much right on with the epoxy. What you can do is use aneeled copper, cut
to shape and epoxy it on.

JB

"Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." wrote:

> Oh, one more tempest thing... I have a spare set of tempest boards that
> work great... just one problem... no red gun... turns out the pin on the
> edge connector for the red gun is gone ! peeled right up and off.....
>
> Now I don't want to relocate the signal to an unused pin... as that makes
> it wiring specific....
>
> So...
>
> Anyone ever restore a missing "pin" ? I was thinking of using one from
> a scrap board... using a razor blade to peel up a "replacement" one, and
> epoxying it to the location of the missing "pin" on the tempest board.
>
> Comments, ideas, etc welcome.
>
> -- Curt
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> >From: "Travis Shire" <boardjunkie@techie.com>
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> >Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:55:30 +0800
> >Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tempest boards playing blind (and worse)...help!
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> >VoSsy VoS!!!
> >
> >With the one drawing crazy lines I'd start with the dac's, one or the other (or
> both for that matter) is probably bad. The one with no video kicking the spot
> killer should be a bad op amp in the output section. Check with a meter on each
> axis' test loop to see if its stuck (they should normally fluctuate as the pix
> is drawn).
> >Follow the schem to see where you get a good input to an op amp stage and a
> stuck output.
> >
> >Shouldn't be much of a problem to get them both back in action again.
> >
> >Laterz
> >Travis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Hey guys, I was unconverting my MH last night to sell as a Tempest...got one of
> my dead Tempest boards going and popped it in. Machine is working great.
> Figured while I was at it, I should try to get some others going. I've got two
> sets that play fine blind, but no video (spot killer on)...have another that
> plays blind, but draws a few crazy random vectors, with the spot killer going on
> and off rapidly. Monitor sounds like hell during this, so I only ran it a few
> seconds.
> >
> >Any suggestions on where to start? This is the first time I've delved into
> anything more than bad solder joints at the interconnect, as far as Tempest
> boards go.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Richard
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