This blog is dedicated to our home retro video arcade - Starbase Alpha, home to 54 classic coin operated video games. I enjoy spending time fixing these games, as well as everything else that breaks around out house. Here I'll post updates and repairs in the game room, as well as stuff that I fix around the house. About me: I'm a 41 year old electronics technician for a major oilfield services company. I've been collecting since 1991, one year after graduating high school.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Tron erratic spinner issue resolved
When I finally got around to putting the guts of Tron back into the cabinet, everything worked well except for the spinner control. Tron's arm would swing around normally until it hit a certain position, then it would 'jump' to a few positions ahead of where it should be. The problem ended up being a bad LS244(buffer) at position E2 on the Super Sound I/O PCB. It's purpose in life is to receive the encoder signals from the spinner control and then dump them onto the data bus.
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