Leaderboard

Really looking great Simon 👌

Now got front pannel together,drilled and dowel joins.dowel jig shown.so just layed things together to see how it looks,now to do more work on front like rebating for glass and top flash.

Hi Andrew Just as an update - I cleaned the game card with a cotton bud and some Isopropyl Alcohol and I noticed some brown residue on in the area near the capacitor marked below. So this looked to have been leaking. Luckily, there didn't look to be any damaged traces or corrosion on the board. So, I ordered some 10uF 25V SMD Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors and swapped this one out. Please don't look too closely at the soldering job. I am just a keen amateur 🙂 I had to reset the time and date after the works just once but after swapping out that cap the system has initialised and booted up every time without the 52-36 / NO ID CHIP / NO CHARACTERISER error. Although I ordered it, I did not replace the battery in the end. Obviously other people's experience with this might differ.. but, at the moment... fingers crossed, the unit seem to be OK.

Yep sure was. Removed it and back in the test rig and .......nothing! On closer inspection there was another one on the same connector so whoever looked at it previously put two obscure faults on it and then presumably gave up. After the second solder bridge was removed it burst into life.