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Re: IGT PE+ issues after storage
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2021, 06:05:34 pm »
The worst one I have seen is three AA batteries in a holder dangling outside the board tray with about 12" of wire running to the battery pads.
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Re: IGT PE+ issues after storage
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2021, 08:00:15 pm »
Off board - usually a battery holder with.a quick disconnect.
Much like you would use for pinball.


The problem unlike a pinball is that it sits within the tray.
So if your going to put the machine away you need to remember to disconnect it.


I moved from PA to western Canada.
I pulled the boards and stored them upside down in banker boxes as if anything was going to leak
It would do so downwards on paper towel. I also didn’t want any issues with customs so I had my whole
Story about these being non functional animated lamps ready. The machines were stored for just over a year.
I never did have any issues.
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Re: IGT PE+ issues after storage
« Reply #22 on: April 18, 2021, 11:28:25 pm »
An off-board mount for the battery would certainly work and would significantly reduce the danger of a repeat issue should the battery leak in the future.

Another popular modification is to mount a battery holder to the board so if/when you get a low battery indication in the future you can easily just pop out the old battery and pop in a new one without having to solder it ever again.
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Re: IGT PE+ issues after storage
« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2021, 07:40:17 pm »
Thanks, guys.  I'll probably go with an off-board battery, if I can get it going again.

Started re-populating tonight.  Still waiting on some other components (an LM388 amp, the RAM, 20MHz xtal, and a couple of ceramic axial caps) before I'm ready to plug & pray...

My question of the day is:  Is is normal for some PE+ superboards (layer revs?) to have NO dipswitches??  I notice that my board has none, and it looks to be that way from the factory.  However, every other superboard photo I see DOES have dipswitches.  What gives?

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Re: IGT PE+ issues after storage
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2021, 08:15:46 pm »
On the schematics, it's clear that no dipswitches are used if the YM2413 is used in lieu of the AY-3-8912.  So I'm going to assume they're not strictly needed.  I didn't find any bits of dips at the bottom, so I'm pretty sure none were there before.  Also, 16 less corroded-as-hell holes to clean out...

All the stuff game in, and I'm done re-populating everything (RAM, EPROM, xtal, amp IC) except for 1 axial ceramic cap in the audio section (C63).  I'll deal with it later, if this thing is close to running... 

Work is now focused on running Kynar jumpers for all of the corroded-through traces and vias.  5 down, 5 to go...
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