Re: Tempest - Nearly there but still some issues - part 2 !!

Thanks John.

A few hours ago tried out the signature calculator software on there.... and it kindly gave me some nice data (pasted below under my sig)...... I've not tried out the Fide software yet, but this is my next plan.... The fluke 9010a I'm using has not got RS-232, but I have another one that has just arrived, so plan to hook this up.......

I managed to get some analogue multipliers MC1495 from my Friend just a few miles away in Liverpool (Thanks Kev/Outrun !) - Fitted them and now I have full x + y deflection on the output test points... Yey :-)

I plugged in the monitor for the first time ( this was aquired a few months ago and it had a known fault) and getting a display... BUT something is breaking down in the chassis, and its sucking some of the vectors up into the middle of the screen !! (Looks fine on the XY scope !!)

I'm thinking I have a HV board fault... I can hear what sounds like HV tracking (not the deflection chatter) - I took this picture....

http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/uploads/ColinD/2008-09-20_203630_tp4.jpg

I cant leave it on for long as the phosphor will burn... I think I'll try another HV unit... and if not.. start trouble shooting the deflection with the brighness turned down too when testing !!

Any ideas please ?

Thanks, Regards, Colin ( PS... sorry for all the traffic on this list... I'm ill with a chest infection and stuck in the house, so I'm putting this idle time to good use !! - I'm learning a LOT too )

Sigs below.....
C:\tempest>calcsignature c:\tempest *.*

Calculate Signature v1.0
   Copyright 2004
   Courtesy QuarterArcade.com
   Author: James Bright
   Special Thanks: Jon Wagner

Scanning Directory: c:\tempest
Files: *.*

SIGN, FILE NAME/ROM NAME
B0FC, \136002.111
3D1D, \136002.112
 92C, \136002.113
EB50, \136002.114
AF2A, \136002.115
BF11, \136002.116
8470, \136002.118
C82E, \136002.119
445B, \136002.120
 8D4, \136002.121
F5CF, \136002.126
76B6, \136002.127
3DA2, \136002.128
C0B1, \136002.129
B5AE, \136002.130
5A82, \136002.131
B112, \136002.132
C0FF, \136002.133
E47D, \136002.134
E810, \136002.136
1720, \136002.138
294B, \136002.217
DF79, \136002.222
FC98, \136002.235
5752, \136002.237
54AF, \136002.316
8DD6, \CalcSignature.exe
BE84, \tempest3_readme.txt

28 signatures calculated.

C:\tempest>

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: John Robertson
  To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
  Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 7:00 PM
  Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tempest - Nearly there but still some issues

  Colin Davies wrote:
    It's now running - Was an issue with one of the eproms in a socket !!

    Can't understand why the self test wasn't picking it up, but its now running... Just need to sort the 1495 issue out...

    The fluke would have picked the rom up if I had known how to compute the checksums.

    Cheers, Colin

  Colin,

  Run, do not walk, to the great Fluke support section that James Bright has built:

  http://tech.quarterarcade.com/tech/Fluke/9010A/

  You can generate your own ROM Signatures using FIDE on a PC...

  John :-#)#

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: matt
      To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
      Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:34 AM
      Subject: Re: VECTOR: Tempest - Nearly there but still some issues

      hey if it helps u can power it up w/out "math box pokey" PCB
      i use that to fix my dac and ram fualts Damm 5v reg going 7.5v

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