Quoted from TOpinhead:What an interesting title for a youtube video... I could have sworn I've seen it before... LOL!
How wrong was that guy!
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:He’s an idiot and so are all the people who ran with that moronic video as some kind of evidence that spike sucks.
It’s amazing to me how gullible people are when a YouTube link is involved. Something about YouTube just makes people believe nonsense with zero critical thinking.
That guy was parallel importing Stern games to Australia. Selling Spike games and telling people how good they were. He got caught out and the video appeared. Not long after Sour grapes!
Quoted from Lermods:well, he's not entirely wrong. Spike is easy to fix if you just replace the boards when they go bad, but that's very expensive and I think game specific in some cases, which makes it difficult to just have a board on hand. As an operator, do you want a game down for a week or two while you source a board? Very few people can diagnose and repair boards in spike games due to through-hole technology, and if that main board in the back fails, it's very expensive. This is my biggest issue with the Spike system. The lack of fuses in spike I view positively and like that a node board will shut down if it senses a fault. I'm looking forward to the next segments on repair of the spike system and hopefully some tips on identifying common problems.
The system is still new. I am sure as time goes on more and more people will work out how to repair the boards, same as what happened on all the older games. I can also see cheaper mode boards from other manufacturers coming to the market.
A SAM driver board has mostly SMT components the same as Spike mode boards. A SAM driver board costs a lot more that a spike mode board. Both have though components on the MOSFETS (transistors).
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