IT'S ALIVE!!!
Atari Battlezone Cabaret made in 1981.
Finally got the monitor working late last night and reinstalled (this time working) early this morning.
Quick recap:
Power supply rebuilt in the bottom of the cab. Atari ARII audio amplifier rebuilt/recapped.
I sent the boardset out for repair. (well, actually two boardsets). Someone sat on them for a year and sent them back unrepaired. Found someone who really really specializes in Atari vector games and he had them both repaired in like 2 weeks. Well worth every cent.
Replaced the rotted/rusted out hardware. Mice eaten original speaker assembly replaced.
Of course, then I get everything back together and it plays blind
.
The monitor hadn't been touched but I had the parts...mostly....onhand and I had previously seen an image on it so I know it wanted to live.
I get the monitor recapped, reflow the solder on everything, replaced the high voltage transistors. Put it all back together...no neck glow. FUUUUUUU..... I rack my brains, watch some KZitem vidoes, Listen to Ms. Violet tell me to take a break (I live that girl. 🙂 ) then it comes to me. There's an inline diode between the HV transfomer and the monitor...hence no neck glow. Reseat everything, it works. I put it back in the cabinet...and gone again.
Pull the monitor back apart for the 17th time...just go to solder the shady connections (they are this weird spring loaded deal with rubber insulator boots)...and a leg breaks clean off. Luckily, I have a junk vector monitor out of a Roached out Battlezone I dismantled and burned years ago. I go pull the diode assembly out of there (it had been repaired before on that machine), solder everything in, reassemble everything, pray to unforgiving arcade gods and hit the power.
Viola.
I get everything dialed in (or at least reasonably dialed in), reassembled and after a year and a half...it finally works!
Now that I have a cabaret version, time to decide what to do with the full sized one I have. Seems rather redundant and is taking up space in my garage now....
Random side note, manufacture date on the monitor is Dec 1981. I was 2.5 when it was made. lol
Негізгі бет Atari Battlezone Cabaret up and running!
Пікірлер: 1