Atari Tempestipede Cabaret

[guddler]

Great work!

Just one small tip, before you give it all a final adjustment and put it back in the cab, view it with the smoked Perspex in front of it first. It's surprising how dark the Perspex is on Tempest and the screen will be too dark if you adjust it up for use without it. Just saying

 

[MarbleMad]

I don't like that smoked plexe.. On my machine I replaced it with a nice piece of smoked toughened glass.
Gave my mc and asteroids cabarets the same treatment.

 

[dezbaz]

So ...... now that cosmetics almost sorted, it's time to address the rest of the cab.

First up, power:

I really struggled to find an Atari colour vector power brick. Did track one down to the US, but with shipping it came in at over £100. ..... I might bite the bullet and spring for one next year, but in the meantime I've made use of what I had to hand - a Centipede power brick, paired with a toroid transformer.

It's not pretty:

But it is functional:
So that's a Centipede power brick that's now outputting 50VAC CT on pins 10-11-13. Which is nice.

Straight forward enough. The toroid is drawing power from after the power brick's line filter. Also uses fuse F1. Also plumbed in so that cabs on/off switch also functions as on/off for the toroid. I just spliced the toroid output into pins 10-11-13. So the Tempest harness is almost entirely unhacked. I say almost as pin 13 on the Tempest harness, where the harness plugs into the brick, is female. And I had to repin that to a male pin. Other than that, it's untouched.

Here's the harness hooked up to the brick, with newly rebuilt (all new caps, all new transistors) AR2:

All the voltages check out, so looking good. Also traced the 50VAC CT through the harness to the WG6100 connector. Again, all voltages present and correct.

So that's power sorted. Thanks to Nad, I also now have a tested working Tempest PCB. So, next up will be monitor. Might try to get that sorted tomorrow, but it needs a lot of hours putting into it ....

Nice work on the 50VAC CT. Love it!

I used 2 x 12V transformers soldered together, and did the same sort of thing, but it's using a molex to inject the power into the harness, so it can be reversed

Freight is a killer. £100 OUCH!

 

[tb lilley]

I'm calling this pretty much done. Built and mounted a shelf for marquee light yesterday, as well as putting everything else in the cab.

Few niggly little jobs left to do, but will be done in my own time and require little effort.

So. Money Shots:

Quite enjoyed that project.

 

[Alpha1]

Nice work.

 

[Qubit]

that's sweet
I like the pic with the roby and the defender reflecting off it. U got some quality cabs there.

 

[Alpha1]

Moved to Restoration Showcase! Member awarded.

 

[Bicton]

amazing restoration tb lilley and the knoledge you need to have to achieve this result ! Congrats +++

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I missed this one

, wonderful stuff though, another golden era cab brought back from the dead

 

[smythe]

nice one

 

[Dex-Jay]

Midi-sized-Vector-ness!! Cool!

 

[arcademugs]

I reckon I might be able to get away with a cabaret in the living room, looks so much better for the work you have done

 

[Equites]

I reckon I might be able to get away with a cabaret in the living room, looks so much better for the work you have done <!-- bmi_SafeAddOnload(bmi_load,"bmi_orig_img",0);//-->

In the US the cabaret is more desirable than the full sized upright. Probably due to its rarity and its no compromise 19" vector monitor shoehorned into the cab.

 

[tb lilley]

No Compromise. Like it. I might rename this the "Atari TempestipedeNoCompromiseBastardo Cabaret" thread.