Did a little home repair...

[Inky]

Thos who know me know that I have been complaining for a long time about one of the difficulty switches on my 7800 being broken. After searching high and low locally looking for a replacement, I had a brainstorm...

since the channel 2/3 switch works, and since I am on a dish, and therefore I can put the 7800 on EITHER channel, I decided to take the 2/3 switch and put it in place of the right difficulty switch. Then I took a tiny portion of wire, and made a permanent jump so that it always is set to channel 3. No onyl does it feel niceto be able to play Tower Toppler and Ghostbusters, but the picture turns out to be so much clearer!

 

Woo hoo!

[CPUWIZ]

Or you could have just asked me for a switch, I have an entire box full of Atari service parts, from levers to slide switches to 7805's to silver stripes for the inside of the machine. You name it I probably have it.

 

Now send me your address again so you can put a proper switch back into place.

 

[Goochman]

CPU,

 

Ive got a broken 5200 - could you send me all the parts so I can rebuild one from scratch

[CPUWIZ]

CPU,

 

Ive got a broken 5200 - could you send me all the parts so I can rebuild one from scratch

 

Probably but I will have to charge you.

[Rob Mitchell]

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement power socket to solder in place of the propriatory one?

 

I have one 7800 Power Supply .. but I dread the day when that PS breaks.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[icbrkr]

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement power socket to solder in place of the propriatory one?

 

I have one 7800 Power Supply .. but I dread the day when that PS breaks.

 

Rob Mitchell' date=' Atlanta, GA[/quote']

 

I just took a power supply to a Timex Sinclair 1000 (standard 9V power supply), cut off the end, and soldered the two points to the motherboard. Took about 2 mins

[video game addict]

I just took a power supply to a Timex Sinclair 1000 (standard 9V power supply)' date=' cut off the end, and soldered the two points to the motherboard. Took about 2 mins [/quote']

 

LOL But doesn't that make it like a permanent appendage to get in the way and easier to break or damage later down the road? I'd much rather have a port, even if I had to take one off a broken NES. I'm sure someone sells these, somewhere..

[CPUWIZ]

Here is a picture of one that I did a while ago, you don't need a socket that fits into the PCB.

 

BTW, the perfect PSU for a 7800 is a Lynx one.

[video game addict]

Or the Sears Video Arcade II? I believe it's the same type plug, as Lynx with an Atari logo on the brick. It would look cool, but they are not to easy to find either.

[bcostin]

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement power socket to solder in place of the propriatory one?

 

I have one 7800 Power Supply .. but I dread the day when that PS breaks.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

 

It's very easy to modify a 7800 to use a 2600 PS, even if you're solder-phobic like me. Radio Shack sells everything you need. I used this guy's very clear instructions as a guide:

 

http://www.geocities.com/atari7800mod/7800...0_powermod.html

 

When I discovered that a cat had chewed through the cord on my 7800's PS I decided it'd be almost as easy to add a normal jack as to splice the cord.

[CPUWIZ]

Ugh, the 7800 PSU is rated at 1A as opposed to 500ma though.

[Inky]

CPU, Got the switch and installed it with little trouble.

 

It works! Like a charm!

[CPUWIZ]

Kewl.