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Fish Tales - intermittant reset

By LongJohns

10 years ago


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#1 10 years ago

Will work fine for days and just out of the blue the game will 'power down' and reboot during a game.

I have recapped the power supply, and looking for other suggestions.

#7 10 years ago

@LTG - thanks, but have already gone through the checks listed. Figured I would at least start with the caps as they are old.

@Muppet_Man - thanks for the input. Didn't replace the rectifier (doesn't really make sense to me), but will add it to the list for the future parts order (suppose it can't hurt).

#22 10 years ago
Quoted from sulli10:

One other option. I have problems with a TAF during hot summer days as my external house voltage drops so that my basement receptacle voltage drops. This only occurs during the really hot days. I purchased a 1000VA UPS power supply ( from Staples about 100 bucks) and plugged the game into it. I tested it during a Hot day and it works great. During that hot day I plugged the TAF into the house receptacle and the game reset when hitting both flippers. Right away I plugged TAF into the UPS (which was plugged into the house receptacle) the problem went away and has not been back. I repeated this test several times with the same results. Between the voltage regulator and the battery pack in the UPS the Voltages on the TAF cards stay high enough to prevent the reset.

Thanks - this was my original thought as well. I ran a separate circuit for my Fish Tales and another pinball so they were not sharing with the video games. Didn't solve anything, although I will admit that I am not monitoring the line voltage as it happens ever so intermittently (could go a month or 2 without a reset or it has happened once 3 times in the same day - mostly it will go weeks). Doesn't mean that there is still a voltage drop once in a while.

I did pull the board today and removed the old solder from all the connectors and rectifiers and put on some fresh solder (vs. just touching it up like the last time). Works like a champ, but then it was really intermittent before and mostly worked I so can't say that it is fixed 100%. Will have to see how it goes over the next few weeks/months.

Thanks for all the suggestions though, will see how it all goes.

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