Re: Gravitar text color/WG6100 issue

Great tips, thanks ! Checked VR1 & VR2 and they are fine. Will replace the caps around them.

Still need to check the diodes. Yes I especially replaced C100 and C101 with brand new one's. I steered clear from cap-kits because from now I want to use well-known brands AND 105 degr. versions. Also, as you mention I always found it _extremely_ weird that the cap-kits skip the most important one's just to keep the kit price low....

There's no added ground-lead, I actually thought of trying one but haven't done so far.

Text color, the emulated on line game on Atari's site confirms the light blue letters, so I was right about that. Colors are adjusted fine.

Cheers, André

Op 13 mrt 2010, om 21:10 heeft William Boucher het volgende geschreven:

> Regarding the jitter problem...
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> Check the output of the 7815 and 7915 regulators (VR1 & VR2) in the video section of the game board. If one of them is shorted through, jitter will result. I had a board with this fault and replacing the two regulators fixed the problem. Also good to do is replace the caps around these two regs (C111, C121 & C110).
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> On the monitor deflection board, make sure that all 4 diodes D100, D101, D102, D103 are all good. An open diode will result in halfwave rectification instead of fullwave and this will result in a lot more ripple on the DC power supply lines. If you haven't already, replace C100 and C101 (4700uF, 50V). A lot of standard cap kits do not include them because they are the largest and most expensive ones. They are very important however. I have posted an extensive replacement parts here:
> http://www.biltronix.com/arcade_electcomp_01.html#wg6100_rebuild_parts
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> If someone has added an additional ground lead somewhere, just temporarily remove it. These add-on leads often cause jitter issues because they can create a ground loop as well as other issues. If removing the extra wire solved the problem, there are better ways to beef up the ground connection such as replacing the existing terminals in the original harness connectors with new gold ones.
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> Text color problem...
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> Try adjusting the bias and gain pots on the 6100 neck board to get the correct color balance. There is a pair of pots for each color. The manual for the 6100 explains these adjustments.
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> And yes, some text is light blue (cyan). Screen shots (probably mame) on KLOV:
> http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8000
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> William Boucher
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Huijts" <a.huijts@upcmail.nl>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Gravitar text color/WG6100 issue
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> Forgot to mention that I also replaced the pots on the Gravitar game PCB to see if these were the cause of the jitter, but they weren't.
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> Op 13 mrt 2010, om 20:18 heeft Andre Huijts het volgende geschreven:
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>> Gravitar owners, I've been working on a WG6100 in a Gravitar and I wanted to know, do we agree that the main texts on the attract screen are meant to be light blue and not pure white ?
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>> When I compare the texts with f.i. the diamond test screen, the diamond screen looks like true white.
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>> Can someone confirm this ?
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>> Another question about WG6100: this one has a very minor "jitter" on the screen. I'd say that there is very small (extra) AC on the deflection signals. It looks like it's mainly on the horizontal deflection but also somewhat on the vertical.
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>> It causes the beam to not steadily hit the same dots on the screen. Note that the metal screen is INSTALLED on the HV cage !
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>> Any idea where to look. I just did a cap-kit on deflection and HV board (using Panasonic high quality caps, 105 degr.).
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>> I did not yet install a LV2000 (it's on it's way). Could it be in the low voltage section ? I did _not_ replace the caps there because the LV2000 will get rid off them anyway.
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>> I've moved out the monitor out of the cab and ran it, and the issue is the same so it's no cause inside the cab, it's on the monitor itself.
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>> Any tips welcome, thanks !---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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