So, at last it happened! I am now a proud dad, of a little baby. Baby pacman.
First roadtrip (through amazing storms and sleet for those who heard about the amazing weather in Germany last Sunday), first arcade machine.
Anyway, to make a long story short and all the other news following up in the next posts, here is the situation:
-200W stepdownconverter between the cab and my wall socket. Switch on: bang, there goes the fuse!
Ok, so you've all gone through that 1000 times. Not me. In a nutshell, amongst the many many reasons this can obviously come from, what is the most common reason for this?
Two words about the cab: bought NOT working, but at least should be able to be powered on.
Solenoid board, power board and the MPU boards should be working. Same goes for most of the bulbs, coils and other pinball parts.
Not working should be the Vidiot board (apparently 2 flashes only), and the monitor does not switch on.
Fact is I cannot even get that far to test anything.
I think this first challenge is going to be a hard one, but a nice one to learn a lot, with a machine I absolutely fell in love with, but I sure will need some help from you guys.
SOS