I like it 
Like I said in one of the other threads, this would be another step forwarding to replacing some of the functions of those big, bulky, expensive, and rare OEM testers.
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Quoted from terryb:I use an LCD (as in DMD replacement type) on the bench. I'm not sure a mini-LCD would be of great advantage, but people who are working more in the field might be interested in something like that. Now that I think about it though if I could eliminate the need for the DMD controller I might be interested.
What I'm most interested in is being able to control the driver board w/o having to use a cpu board. This may be a unique need for my process and not of general use, but I figured I would bring it up. Once I'm at the bench I know which board is bad and would rather not have to connect up multiple boards, but for someone still deciding if the issue is the cpu or the driver board it might be helpful.
Yup, I could make use of tools that cycle through tests for driver boards and lamp boards. I'm not too keen on throwing an untested board in a working game and risk something going haywire. With a bench tester, I could at least get an indication of whether or not something catastrophic would happen. I'd rather fry a small, easily replaceable tester than damage something in-game.
I remember seeing a System 1 driver board tester that Leon put together: http://pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Leon_Borre_Gottlieb_System_1_Driver_Board_Repair
I've been wanting to give that a try when I can find the time.
A bench tester would also be much smaller and easier to store than assembling the guts of a game for each system type. Right now I must have about 15 distict system types and building that many test rigs for each one would sure take up a lot of space--certainly more than I have room for.
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