Comments on: Pole Position 2 PCB Repair

By: Jeff Waldron

Jeff Waldron — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:51:23 +0000

@Rick, glad to hear you’ve got your game done! I’m hoping mine doesn’t take as long.

By: Rick Bryant

Rick Bryant — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:45:48 +0000

Hey Jeff, Thanks for posting this great site with all its info you have provided. Finally finished my PP2 and it only took 7 years. I had some of the same problems and a bunch of others. Thanks again.

Rick

By: mr. farrell

mr. farrell — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:54:04 +0000

Hey Jeff. I think I might have fried something in my pp2 pcb. I tried redistributing the power as suggested.

I wanted to test it out, so i ran a couple of wires to a test point and a ground. When i powered it up, there was a puff of smoke from the pcb. Now the board is getting no power.

I hooked them up to what i thought was the power. All the cables routing to the boards were connected to the blue cylinder with the terminals on the top.

Any advice on what to do now and what i might have done wrong.

thanks again.

By: Michael Mauricio

Michael Mauricio — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:04:49 +0000

i have a PP2 that was working just fine until the monitor went out a few months ago. Does anyone have any suggestions at to what kind of replacement i should get? I’ve seen a few generic ones and was wondering if those are okay to use. thanks!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:40:32 +0000

for the PCBs i have removed the damaged and cleaned up the board pretty nice.

I was asking more about the legs of the small socket chips. I have some that are very tarnished or rusted.

By: Jeff Waldron

Jeff Waldron — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:13 +0000

@Dan: I’ve heard washing PCB’s in a dishwasher is helpful. You’d have to remove all of the socketed chips and wait for days to dry. I’ve never tried it and to be honest would be wary of doing so. As for the battery damage, I’ve heard washing with white vinegar is useful. I’ve done it before to neutralize the corrosion.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:15:15 +0000

Hey, thanks for the great tips!

I have a PP2 PCB with some battery dammage and alot of dirty chips. What is the best way to clean theses? I tried gently scratching off the dirt on the chips, but seems to do more damage than good.

-Dan

By: Jeff Waldron

Jeff Waldron — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:45:26 +0000

Mark, The AR boards supply power to the game, so yes they need to be hooked up. You could use a separate power supply, then you should be able to test it without the AR boards. I need to do the same thing but I haven’t had time to mess with it lately.

By: m kirby

m kirby — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:10:53 +0000

Hi again. Do you have a blank red screen when you
power up the game with nothing attached? I’ve got just the monitor power hooked up right now. Do the AR boards have to be hooked up to the PCB for it to work? Sorry so many questions. Thanks

By: Jeff Waldron

Jeff Waldron — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:09:28 +0000

Mark, it sounds like that’s what they’ve done. I may end up doing the same thing. Double check that the power wires from the AR boards are not still being sent to the PP game PCBs. There should just be sound wiring. The sense wires really aren’t important to worry about if the PCBs are using a seperate power supply.