Gottlieb Wipeout Restoration
- Thread starter Deathrow
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Ok so the postie has delivered the main caps.
A 35v 33000 UF and a 25v 10000uf
I am replacing these as the originals had been causing issues around the machine and I was getting ALOT of humming.
Heres the newbies:
Around half the size of the originals.
Fitted:
Powered her up and the hum is at normal levels but the machine has gone bat **** CRAZY!
All kinds of strange crud on the screen and the sounds are overlapping each other and wrong! I didnt know this machine swore?
Now I couldn't see why the machine would act so badly on new caps but I did notice the tolerance on the 10000uf cap was fairly broad. Cheap?
So I disconnected this and ordered a replacement cap. An original style one this time.
This turned up sat morning so I gave it a quick test fit:
More elastictickery for today.
The dmd seemed a little dim and was real buzzy. Time to investigate.
Not shabby soldering but some had balled up over the tracks and the solder looked very old so I am going to remove the lot.
Wow soooooo many pins!
Removed all the solder and found this!
The pin is missing.
I spent a fair while silver soldering the pins and then ran a wire for the top around the edge of the board.
Popped her back in and:
Much brighter and much more visible in sunlight and LOADS less buzz. No more buzzing through the speakers with full screen display images either.
Chuffed!
Now I am ready to strip her down for the re-build. wish me luck!
forcefulfil
EDOT King
Very Nice Geezer!
Wow how long did all those pins take to re-do?
Wow how long did all those pins take to re-do?
