Re: Tempest Restoration Blog

Thanks - I've repaired one already in the Starwars and a couple of B+W ones.

Main thing is to get the power supply running (Brick and ARII), test /
repair the pcb, and get it displaying on an XY scope... Then its monitor
time...

Nearly finished the brick rebuild, New big blue eqivalent, new capacitor
clamp, new 35A bridge rectifier, new fuse holders (individual ones with a
heavy duty one on F3 for the 20 amp fuse), new 15 way connector, new 3 way
connector for aux power and lots of wire... uprated a little from 1.5mm
(16awg) to 2.5mm in some places. It was missing a LOT of parts and had been
hached to death... very sorry looking thing :-) Had to move the aux power
tags underneath, to allow for drilling and nuts and bolts for the new fuse
holders.. Just need to wire up the Aux power 3 way connector (and a spare
too) and then its time for a smoke test !! - Colour XY power bricks are
pretty hard to come by nowdays in the UK, hence the re-build.

Cheers, Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathieu Peyroulet Ghilini" <peyroulet@gmail.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tempest Restoration Blog

> good luck for the monitor, you'll need it..
> :)
> Regards
>
> On 9/9/08, Colin Davies <colin.w.davies@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>> I picked up a Jamma World Cup 90 machine last week... It was quite local
>> to
>> me (North Wales in the UK), and was reasonably priced....
>>
>> So... Why am I posting this ? - Well...its a Tempest Cab and I plan to
>> get
>> it back to how the Atari God's intended :-)
>>
>> I'm putting a bit of a blog up on Jammaplus forums if any one wants to
>> watch/read... http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10883
>>
>> So far, its mostly about restoring the power brick which has been gutted
>> during its life, but a lot more will follow.... Such as the monitor and
>> possible pcb repair... Got to start somewhere from the ground up , so the
>> power supply sounds like a good starting point to me !!
>>
>> You will need to register to view, but its painless and you won't get
>> spammed... Thats a promise as I'm one of the moderators :-)
>>
>> I may well be posting on here asking for advice (especially if the pcb
>> needs
>> repair) - but I think I can handle it all.... so far....
>>
>> Regards, Colin
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