Attention: Arcade Game

When we first began All You Can Arcade, it was a little on religion. We were convinced that individuals would want to rent arcade games from the month, but truth be told, we had no clue how to operate on them. Before we knew that our launching was a month away and we'd managed to accumulate about 100 games, but only 10 of them worked!
We understood enough to refurbish a good chunk of the games, but we kept hitting the identical symptom over and over again. All of our monitors would display a scrambled image on the monitor. It was super frustrating because we had no idea how to fix it. We nearly missed our launch, but we finally clued in on what exactly was causing our probablem once we discovered about monitor sync 101 and recognized that they occasionally have to get hooked up differently depending on the game. On that day, we have to have turned at least 20 matches, we had put a good deal of hard work into, but were missing this last piece of this puzzle so as to have the ability to play them. This tiny chunk of understanding, gave us the games we all needed to begin and was sufficient to keep us motivated to keep learning how to correct problems.
Five decades later, I spend more time researching arcade fix, then I ever spent studying in school and the education continues to pay off.
For the last few years, we've had an average bug that is slipped to our fleet.
To solve the symptom, we would raise the energy supply to operate hot and that would be good for the following 3 to six weeks before the power supplies would burn out. After running into this mystery a couple of times, we began to put the games into deep storage until we can figure out why they all kept failing. Because we presumed, it was being caused by poor indoor playground, www.childwelfaresocietykenya.org, circuit boards trying to draw too much power, we missed something a lot more evident.
After cleaning the chips, it would sometimes assist, but this insect has managed to throw at least 20 of our matches. Well today, our Mortal Kombat 2 began to exhibit the same symptoms and quite honestly if we pull this one from the fleet, our clients will riot, so I sat down to get to the root of the event of the drop in voltage.
To do this I took my voltage meter, measured the power at the power supply and then began tracing the 5V line and measuring where I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it even went into the edge connector, I saw that the voltage had dropped. I suspected the connector between the cable and the power supply. The moment I crimped over the end of the line to place on a new one, I immediately saw exactly what my problem was.
We love getting a fantastic deal and I'd be willing to bet you a quarter, that you cannot find a better deal on the jamma harnesses which we purchase. Unfortunately, it looks like we may have gotten exactly what we paid for them.
From the exterior, the harness looks like it uses a thick 18 gauge cable to run the power to the board. That's a lot of metal to conduct a small quantity of voltage. It is a part of why I never suspected that it was our offender.
Once you open it up though, you can see that from the exterior it looks 18 gauge, but on the inside it's short quite a bit of metal. The solution was simple, run a thicker cable in the power supply to the harness and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade at the Jack of All Trade series this weekend.
While this simple bug should have been seen sooner and has caused us a great deal of headaches, it's also extremely exciting to work out the source of our problem and to understand that with hardly any work, we've got another 20 amazing games back on our website. Learning how to correct arcade games hasn't been simple and your education never really ends, but each time you solve a puzzle, the following game gets easier and easier to repair.
Hopefully, other men and women who have run into similar problem, can save themselves the same aggravation by A.) double checking the cable you're using when you can not get your voltage to travel cleanly from the power supply into a circuit boards and B.) paying just slightly better quality jamma harnesses.