The restoration of a 1980's Williams Defender arcade machine
Archive for April, 2012
Control Panel rebuild [complete]
Apr 29th
Finally got some time to work on a few more parts of the project (I’d like to blame work but actually it’s more the fact that I managed to accidentally buy a Tron arcade cabinet in between, but more about that later…) and all the parts had arrived from around the world for the Control Panel so…
Power Supply Rebuild continues
Apr 13th
So I ordered the parts I think I need from Farnell / CPC and they have arrived so now it’s time to try and get the power supply working. First out of the box is the nice new power filter (I had to spend at least £30 with Farnell so thought I might as well…
Power Supply Rebuild begins
Apr 4th
Right – I’ve been making (slow!) progress and cleaned the whole PSU, tested all the fuses and connectivity of their mounts of the circuit board and am ready to re-assemble. Googling the ‘what I thought was a resistor soldered on the front of the Power filter’ it is a GE V130LA10AD Voltage Dependent Resistor and according to the GE…
The Rules – A Sympathetic Restoration
Apr 3rd
So things are progressing nicely – there’s some updates on the monitor, the Power Supply, the control panel and a number of other pieces on their way from the US at the moment – but I wanted to write some rules for the restoration just so I’m clear what I’m trying to achieve. 1.…
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