Re: Tempest Restoration Blog

Finished the brick rebuild - Repaired, sense modded and tested an ARII (not
checked the audio yet) - Got good healthy voltages...

Plugged all the looms in and the pcb, but it does not seem to be doing
anything at the moment (got a nice healthy 5v) - I'll need to try diagnose
the pcb shortly when I can make some space - might be a first use of the
fluke 9010a :-) - Not got any bleeps or bloops .. must investigate
further... Can't find my scope probes for a start !!

Dare not plug in an XY monitor just yet....

Cheers, Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Davies" <colin.w.davies@btopenworld.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: 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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