Arcade Game May Not Exist!

When we first started All You Can Arcade, it was a little on religion. We were confident that people would want to rent arcade games by the month, but truth be toldwe had no idea how to work on them. Before we knew that our launching was a month away and we had managed to accumulate about 100 matches, but only 10 of those worked!
We understood enough to refurbish a fantastic chunk of the matches, but we kept hitting the same symptom over and over again. All our monitors would display a scrambled picture on the screen. It was super frustrating since we had no clue how to repair it. We almost missed our launching, but we eventually clued in on what exactly was causing our probablem when we learned about monitor sync 101 and realized that they sometimes have to get hooked up differently depending on the match. On this day, we have to have turned on at least 20 matches, that we had already put a lot of hard work into, but were missing this final piece of the puzzle in order to have the ability to play them. This tiny chunk of understanding, gave us the games we needed to get started and was enough to keep us motivated to keep learning how to correct issues.
Five years later, I spend more time studying arcade repair, then I ever spent studying in college and the education continues to pay off.
For the previous few years, we've experienced an average bug that is slipped to our fleet. The games would work great after refurbishment, but three to six months later getting them turned on, they'd all start to neglect.
To solve the symptom, we'd raise the power supply to operate hot and that would be helpful for another 3 to six months until the electricity supplies would burn out. After running into this puzzle a few times, we began to put the games into deep storage until we could figure out why they all kept failing. Because we assumed, it had been caused by poor indoor playground equipment circuit boards hoping to draw too much energy, we overlooked something a lot more obvious.
After cleansing the chips, it would sometimes help, but this bug was able to throw at least 20 of our games. Well now , our Mortal Kombat 2 started to display exactly the very same symptoms and quite frankly if we pull this one by the fleet, our customers will riot, so I sat down to get into the origin of the event of the drop in voltage.
To achieve this I took my voltage meter, measured the electricity in the power source and then began tracing the 5V line and measuring where I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it went to the edge connector, I noticed the voltage had already dropped. I now suspected the connector between the wire and the power supply. As soon as I crimped on the end of the lineup to place on a new one, I instantly noticed what my problem was.
We love getting a good deal and I would be happy to bet you a quarter, so which you can't find a better bargain on the jamma harnesses which we buy. Unfortunately, it seems like we may have gotten exactly what we paid for them.
That's a whole lot of metal to run a small amount of voltage. It's part of why I suspected that it was our offender.
As soon as you open it up though, you can see that from the exterior it seems 18 gauge, but on the inside it's short quite a lot of metal. The solution was simple, run a thicker cable in the power source to the harness and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade at the Jack of All Trade series this weekend.
While this easy bug ought to have been seen sooner and has caused us a great deal of headaches, it is also incredibly exciting to work out the origin of our difficulty and to understand that with hardly any work, we've got another 20 amazing matches back on our website. Learning how to correct arcade games hasn't been easy and your schooling never ends, but every time you solve a mystery, the next game becoming easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other men and women who've run into similar trouble, can save themselves the exact same aggravation by A.) double assessing the cable you are using when you can not receive your voltage to travel cleanly from your power supply into a circuit boards and B.) paying only a little bit more better quality jamma harnesses.