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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #150 on: January 16, 2015, 09:04:55 AM »
Everything off.....well almost. Good enough for me.  And I wanted the labels to stay on....
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #151 on: January 16, 2015, 09:11:31 AM »
I sanded the metal as good as I could. Nice and shiny, really rusty spots gone. I don't want to paint this. It does not look brand new but it looks nice.

Cleaned the rest. Checked the fuse holders and fuses. I think I'll be replacing two fuse holders but don't have them right here now.

Of course there were some wrong fuse values. Don't have all correct values on hand so I'll have to replace them later on.

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #152 on: January 16, 2015, 09:13:52 AM »
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #153 on: January 16, 2015, 09:15:27 AM »
Of course, I removed the bad fuse holder that they already replaced and mounted the new one they used on the metal.

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #154 on: January 16, 2015, 09:16:26 AM »
Of course I had to do the 230VAC hack :)

Original situation:
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #155 on: January 16, 2015, 09:17:46 AM »
New situation:
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #156 on: January 16, 2015, 09:19:04 AM »
One more important thing to do:

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #157 on: January 16, 2015, 09:20:23 AM »
....and while we're at it.....

Oh....forgot to put one on F1 that it's 2A now instead of 4A.....will fix that.

Anyway, it is ready now for the smoke test.....
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #158 on: January 16, 2015, 10:04:42 AM »
Nice work !
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #159 on: January 16, 2015, 10:47:15 AM »
Thanks Etienne !

Let's do the smoke test !

OK, let's make some good (final !) use of that old power cable and plug....US plug so I use one of the el-cheapo adapters I have around....
On the other side I quickly crimped some pins. Needed also a bridge for the power switch connections (the red wire)......

DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME KIDS ;) ;) ;)

Quick and dirty, just for one-time testing :)

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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #160 on: January 16, 2015, 10:49:42 AM »
And happy happy me......ALL voltages check out perfectly !

Let's do the second "big blue" test, measure the AC ripple across the big cap:

0.002 Volts.....that's pretty incredible....
Yes.....this baby is just in PERFECT condition !!!

Now I have to dig up the filter and power boards !
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #161 on: January 16, 2015, 11:57:22 AM »
Nice work andré, and nice 230V hack, I can even do that later on on my Qbert power brick. BTW, working on your post count?  ;) :)
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #162 on: January 16, 2015, 12:08:35 PM »
LOL....no man, the picture size limit is causing this....and I don't want to store the pics anywhere else anymore.
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #163 on: January 16, 2015, 12:22:09 PM »
Aha, you are now storing them on the DLF server?
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Re: Q*bert. A man and his grail...
« Reply #164 on: January 16, 2015, 12:53:09 PM »
Yep !

Harnesses. The top one is the "inter PCB connect" one. Still missing one connector. The bottom one is the "main" harness. There is a third one still in the cab, the "power" harness I guess.

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