{"id":445,"date":"2006-04-08T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2006-04-08T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-08T20:14:33","slug":"patrolling-the-galaxy-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/04\/08\/patrolling-the-galaxy-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"patrolling the galaxy once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"g2image_float_right\"><wpg2>\/misccrap\/blog\/sttng_lives<\/wpg2><\/div>\n<p>So, after the fastest date in recent memory (87 minutes), I started working on my ST:TNG pin last night. I traced pretty much every wire, and repaired a number of solder joints while verifying continuity. I finished this afternoon, and when I figured it was all good, flipped the switch&#8230; and got a garbled display. <\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I broke out the schematics and re-traced all the ribon and jumper connections, hoping to find my error. Lo and behold, I had re-connected a ribbon cable inproperly and, after a quick switch, tried my luck again. As you can see, it lit up quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>No burned or stuck coils, only a couple burned bulbs (now replaced), and some minor adjustments to make it level. It plays <em>perfectly<\/em>. Many thanks to David in London across the pond for selling me the 8-driver board; it&#8217;s great to have the Captain and his crew back.<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto the playfield restoration (after several hours of trying to beat my 22B point record, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/misccrap\/blog\/sttng_lives So, after the fastest date in recent memory (87 minutes), I started working on my ST:TNG pin last night. I traced pretty much every wire, and repaired a number of solder joints while verifying continuity. I finished this afternoon, and when I figured it was all good, flipped the switch&#8230; and got a garbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pinball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}