Re[6]: Asteroids GO5 monitor refurb

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From: "Tim Johnson" <ifixaudio@hotmail.com>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 10:06:03 -0500
Subject: RE: Re[4]: VECTOR: Asteroids GO5 monitor refurb

>
> Hello Peter,
> I'm in the states so getting another connector should not be a problem but
> will this stop the board connections from getting too hot? The old connector
> looks to be in good shape.
>

it's not, they where crap even when they where new,
because they only have one sprung section the contact area is poor.
also with age they lose the "springyness"

change it before your pcb has a lump of burned fibreglass where the power tracks used to be.

then you will have to power it with soldered wires (like me) :-(

this has allways been a problem for atari, and they never realised the cause.
it began with the b/w games and went on through starwars & i-robot.
then they replaced the edge-connector with a molex plug for the power.

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Received on Sun Feb 8 15:32:37 2004