{"id":61,"date":"2008-07-24T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T16:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:57:05","slug":"61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"The story so far."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extent of the work that&#8217;s been done has been a tweak here and there.<\/p>\n<p>The monitor wouldn&#8217;t sync when I first started working on it, so I swapped it with a K4600 from one of the other games.  It was perfect&#8230;for about ten seconds.  Then it went all scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>I noted one of the RAM chips smoking.  Thought to replace it later.<\/p>\n<p>Capped the power supply.  But do what I might, the 12V LED would only flicker.  Turned out to be that RAM chip had shorted.  Once I replaced that chip the LED was steady.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up some Defender boards off eBay.  They were cheap&#8230;and with good reason.  It looked like they sat in a dirty humid&#8230;place for a long time.  They didn&#8217;t work, but I think I can repair them.<\/p>\n<p>And the final thing I wanted to mention&#8230;last night I fired it up&#8230;no picture at all.  Thought that was weird &#8211; before I was at the very least getting garbage.  Then I smelled something burning, so I killed the power.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how or when, but I broke the neckboard in two.  Definitely repairable, but it really pissed me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extent of the work that&#8217;s been done has been a tweak here and there. The monitor wouldn&#8217;t sync when I first started working on it, so I swapped it with a K4600 from one of the other games. It was perfect&#8230;for about ten seconds. Then it went all scrambled. I noted one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}