Got my hands on a CRT tester on Wednesday night to try out thanks to hwaygo on discord – it’s the BK Precision 490 and fortunately for me, it had the correct CR23 connector 🙂 Never having done any of this stuff before, I watched multiple videos of what we needed Continue Reading
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Blast City – Zap!
Another update on my wonderful adventures with the Blast City! 😀 😀 I ended up getting some repro artwork – mostly for the blast, but a few random bits and bobs The repro blast cp artwork is ok, but not 100% perfect, it will do the job for my purposes Another Continue Reading
Blast City – Another one!?
Because working on two blast cities over the last year with a lot of tears is never enough…. guess what I picked up last night??? 😀 😀 Yep! I’m back for one more go! hahaha The Honda HRV is surprisingly large inside! I’ve now done two cab trips with my Continue Reading
Blast City – convergence strips
Spent some time on the public holiday to configure the monitor. Here’s the cross stitch of the monitor before any convergence work.. After about two hours worth of mucking around and me $h**ting myself, this was the best I could do (also ran out of convergence strips) The bottom left Continue Reading
Blast City – 2931 FUBAR
Joey’s analysis of my 2931 Well turns out mate that it’s the tripler inside the flyback that has failed, it had damaged an SMD IC in the regulation section plus the 5 pin regulator and zener protection diode, H-Drive transistors and vertical IC, this is supposed to shut the chassis Continue Reading
Blast City – collapse!
Purchased a can of PCB Lacquer to tighten the windings up and used up almost 1/2 the can – she was pretty secured! After the initial test, there was no change to the wobble, so the last ditch effort was to impregnate the yoke with silicone. There was no way Continue Reading
Blast City – wavy corners part 2
A lot of trial and error on the weekend but still haven’t gotten to the bottom of it unfortunately I tried plugging in the vga (31khz) to my naomi universal and I didn’t get any wavy corners. Monitor is powered via the blast city, everything else is on the naomi Continue Reading
Blast City – wavy corners part 1
The universe just doesn’t want me to love the blast city! Backstory: The blast city had some “buzzing” that got louder as time went on. After reading a thread on AP, it pointed to some stuff inside the yoke and would need “cleaning” but to do so would mean removing Continue Reading
Blast City – Recap
So the feedback I got from a few people was to “recap” the PSU and it “should” fix my issue with the Sega I/O TL;DR – I’m exactly in the same situation as I was prior to the recap Blast PSU Recap Adventure After getting my cap kits from Arcade Parts Continue Reading
Blast City – Final stages
Into the final stages of this project. It took a couple of attempts, but I’ve come to the conclusion when I use a NetDimm on the Blast City PSU, I can’t use it on a single PSU. I’ve been told to do a re-cap on the PSU which “should” fix Continue Reading