STAR*TECH Joumal
February 1993
~. DATAEAST
MATSUSHITA
LETHAL
VERTCAL HOLD
WEAPON8
FoRATARI
MULTI-BALL
POLE POSITION
Don Hetrick
DeLeo Games, Inc.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
ona
MONITOR
Matsushita 19" monitor.
The problem remained, so we
pulled the board out for ship-
ment. Upon further inspec-
tion, resistor R2 (3 ohm
wirewound) on the PPB-1
board had a leg that worked
loose from the eyelet.
Resoldering the lead solved all
the strange problems.
Nom
So in conclusion, if you have
~ Y weird happenings with
-.Jata East pinballs, don't over-
look the PPB board for loose
components, connections, etc.
#1412
will not spill
The game would randomly go
into multi-ball and continue to
shoot balls out as soon as they
drained. It even stayed in
multi-ball when the game was
over! During all this the
knocker coil would energize,
as would other coils.
We contacted Data East and
were told to change the 6808
CPU and 6264 Cmos Ram, and
if that didn't fix the problem, to
send the CPU board in for re-
pair.
~
A child
John Michael Bevar
Ries Amusement Inc.
Denison, Iowa
PROBLEM
~
OOLUTION
m"~PbS'5
dirty floor.
GAME
Used on Atari's Pole Position
games.
PROBLEM
Vertical Hold will not lock-in,
getting a rotating/looping ef-
fect with the picture on the
screen.
SOLUTION
Found C405 (2.2 ufd 25vdc) a
Tantalum Capacitor in the
vertical section of the monitor
bad, replace and verify.
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