24 Apr
2005
24 Apr
'05
2:07 p.m.
OK, this is a really bizarre question. My Neo-Geo arcade has been
acting up, and a couple weekends ago when I tried to take a look at
Define 'acting up', please.
it, I couldn't even get a picture. Today I got
the bits to take out
the security screws so I could get into the part where the
powersupply is.
It was just up for 4 1/2 hours without any problems. The only things
that have been done is to wipe the grill where the fan is off (it was
really filthy), and to move an old sewing machine that was sitting on
Could it be that the machine was overheating? Or that you re-seated a
dodge connector when you had it apart. Or disturbed a dry joint?
the floor next to it (unplugged). The sewing machine
was sitting
next to where the transformer is in the cabinet. Is there any way
having it sitting there could have been effecting the power?
I don't see how. It's possible for the stray field of one transformer to
couple to another (valve audio amplifers nearly always had the cores of
the mains and output transformer at right angles to reduce hum, for
example), but I've never heard of stray fields or metal affecting a mains
transformer.
-tony