Atari Centipede Restoration Part 3

Part 3 of my Centipede Restoration

Link to Part 2

I`ve some things to fix :

- Trackball plus replacement of roller and bearings
- Marquee Light
- Control Panel Buttons

 Just enjoy the pics. I`ve made them in a step-by-step manner.

 In the front one see the new button in red.

 I`ve used a led stripe for marquee bulb replacement

 I`ve pluged the LED Stripe simply to 12V test points of the ARII.

 Works.

 Almost finish. Here some pics of the inner stuff and the PCO.

 

 Time to play the first game! And oila, at first play I got the highscore with 59K points. 60K gives another live. :)

Atari Centipede Restoration Part 2

Here are some pics from my latest Centipede Restoration.

First part was shown here.

Marquee was missing. So I replaced it by just buying an original one.

 

 First I did some measuring and the PCB got no stable 5V. So I took a closer look at the ARII Board. Replaced LM305 and Q3 part 2N3055. Did the sense mod as well. After that voltage was okay again.

PCB didn't boot up. So I replcaed the PCB by a spare one I had in my storage.

Ended in this. The configuration of tube was messed up.

So I took pics of all connectors and measured the caps, replaced them, when needed. I`ve used one of this cap meters.

Next step the control panel.

Trackball showed signs of heavy use. I`ve to replace them and wait for parts. So I used the time for cleaning.

Picture is quite ok after configuring the tube.

Further the marquee light was defect. I fixed the harness, but finally the bulb was defect, too. I`ve to replace it with LED Stripes.