Welp, now Star Wars is dead again too. That lasted like… a day.
The game was running but the screen was black. Then as I was moving the cabinet, I discovered that “percussive maintenance” made the screen come back on for a few seconds. So something is loose, but I can’t tell what. When the monitor blacks out, the game continues playing; the LEDs are lit on the deflection board’s low voltage supply; and spot killer is not active, so it’s getting signal.
It’s also probably not great, but probably unrelated, that to get 5v back on AR2 sense, I have to push like 5.8v. That’s like 15% of the power radiating away somehow. Yes, I cleaned all the edge connectors.
Anyway, like I said last time, while I am happy to continue to sink money into these weird old artifacts so that future generations can experience them, I really need to find someone I can pay to fix them when they regularly break, because I’m not good enough at that. Help me find that person.
NOTE: Understand this request as if I were asking, “Do you have a local dentist that you like?”
If your answer is of the form, “No, but have you tried contacting the CEO of the American Dental Association? They probably know Hot Dentists In Your Area”, or, “No, but most major metropolitan areas have dentists”, you are not helping.
In fact, any answer that starts with “No but” or “Have you” is almost certainly not helping.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but apparently I have to say this.
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