Does Arcade Game Sometimes Make You Feel Stupid?

We were convinced that people would want to let arcade games from the month, but truth be told, we had no clue how to operate on them. Before we knew that our launch was a month off and we had managed to accumulate about 100 games, but only 10 of them worked!
We understood enough to refurbish a fantastic chunk of those matches, but we kept hitting the identical symptom over and over again. All of our monitors will exhibit a scrambled picture on the monitor. It was super frustrating since we had no idea how to repair it. We nearly missed our launch, but we eventually clued in on what was causing our probablem once we discovered about monitor sync 101 and realized that they sometimes have to be hooked up differently based on the game. On that day, we have to have turned at least 20 games, we had already put a good deal of hard work into, but had been 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 all had to begin and was sufficient to keep us motivated to keep learning how to correct issues.
Five years later, I spend more time researching arcade repair, then I ever spent researching in school and the instruction continues to repay.
For the previous couple of years, we've had a mean bug that's crept to our fleet. When we measured the voltage running the matches, we would always see a 0.2 to 0.5 fall in the 5V voltage and could not really figure out why the PCB board seemed to suck up electricity.
To solve the symptom, we would boost the energy supply to run hot and that would be helpful for the following 3 to six weeks before the electricity supplies would burn . After running into this mystery a few times, we began to put the games into deep storage until we can find out why they kept failing. Since we assumed, it was being caused by poor circuit boards hoping to draw too much power, we missed something a lot more obvious.
After cleansing the chips, it would sometimes help, but this bug has managed to brick at least 20 of our matches. Well todayour Mortal Kombat 2 started to exhibit the same symptoms and quite honestly if we pull this one from the fleet, our customers will riot, so that I sat down to get to the root of the case of the fall in voltage.
To do this I took my voltage meter, measured the power at the power supply and then began spreading the 5V line and measuring where I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it went into the edge connector, I noticed the voltage had already dropped. I now suspected the connector between the wire and the power supply. The moment I crimped over the end of the line to place on a new one, I instantly saw exactly what my issue was.
We love getting a fantastic deal and I'd be willing to bet you a quarter, that you cannot find a better bargain on the jamma harnesses which we purchase. Unfortunately, it seems like we might have gotten what we paid for them.
That's a lot of metal to run a small quantity of voltage. It's part of why I suspected that it was our offender.
Once you open this up though, it is possible to see that from the outside it looks 18 gauge, but on the inside it is short quite a bit of metal. The solution was easy, run a thicker wire from the power source to the tap and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade at the Jack of All Trade showthis weekend.
While this easy bug ought to have been spotted earlier and has caused us a lot of headaches, it's also incredibly exciting to work out the origin of our difficulty and to know that with hardly any work, we've got another 20 amazing matches back on our site . Learning how to fix arcade games has never been simple and your schooling never really ends, but each time you solve a puzzle, the next game becoming easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other men and women who have run into similar trouble, can save themselves the same aggravation by A.) double assessing the wire you're using when you can't receive your voltage to journey cleanly from the power supply to your circuit boards and indoor jungle gym equipment B.) paying only slightly more better quality jamma harnesses.