Re: Visual ID of Asteroids Power Brick?

You can identify the B&W vector power transformers by the numbers
printed on the isolation transformer itself:

Atari B&W vector transformer (A037671 or A035888)
Atari color vector transformer (A037395)

The 'early' Asteroids & Lunar Lander transformer assemblies have a green
diode PCB mounted to the bottom of the chassis. Later incarnations have
the bridge rectifier assembly.

The raster transformers don't put out the 60VAC for the vector monitor,
although you might be able to rewire the outputs - I have no experience
with it so can't comment. Looks like it would be pretty easy.

Dave Langley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can someone tell me how you visually identify a power brick for use in
> asteroids?
>
> I need one for a project and I'm trying to describe one to someone but
> don't want to end up with something useless as the postage to the UK
> will be excessive! If it makes any difference I need one that can run
> 240v for the UK, though I can make my own voltage plug. Can you ID them
> by the part number of the transformer?
>
> I know they are different from a colour XY one, are they different to
> the raster ones as well?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
> Dave Langley
> www.robotron-2084.co.uk
>
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Received on Wed Jun 16 18:59:14 2004