[rescue] Arcade Machines

[Rob Harhen]

Ya it is a potentiometer (have all the schematics), however there was a
blown resistor that had blown in a closed way, so im not sure exactly what
was damaged.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hebel" <nimitz at speakeasy.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Arcade Machines


> Rob Harhen wrote:
>
> > I 'rescued' an atari systems I cabnet from the town dump a while back,
has
> > the game 'Road Blasters'.  With the lack of keys to open the thing, the
> > universal key (slide hammer) came out. After getting the thing open,
> > powersupply is dead, fortunatly it just needed a 5V supply so an old AT
> > power supply worked great.  Only thing left broken is the gas pedal..
> > kinda
> > important as the gas pedal is the 'start' button for the game, so
> > currently
> > its a 326 lb paper weight in the basement.
>
> Seems to me that that's probably just a potentiometer of some sort. You
> can probably find some note on the web about repairing it.
>
> Mike Hebel
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