Long Island Retro gaming, how do you test if the Pong games Antenna circuit is working because the pong game has an antenna that switches on and turns the pong arcade game off. What do you use to send RF or static signal to trip the Pong games antenna circuit to test if its working or not?Why is that very long BLUE Filter Capacitor so long and tall? any reason why they made the capacitance value so big for what reasons?
Technically I think that you could generate some RF noise to mess with the antenna and see if it shuts down the game. But nowadays very few electronics output RF so the antenna can be ignored or totally disconnected from the machine. The large blue capacitor is the filter capacitor which helps to smooth out the voltage coming in from the transformer
starting on a journy to try and refresh a pong cabinet I found, this has been an immensely helpful starting point!
your video reminds me of the early days of UA-cam. Great video!
Thanks! It was a privilege to restore this historic machine and I wanted to share that progress with everyone on UA-cam
Long Island Retro gaming, how do you test if the Pong games Antenna circuit is working because the pong game has an antenna that switches on and turns the pong arcade game off. What do you use to send RF or static signal to trip the Pong games antenna circuit to test if its working or not?Why is that very long BLUE Filter Capacitor so long and tall? any reason why they made the capacitance value so big for what reasons?
Technically I think that you could generate some RF noise to mess with the antenna and see if it shuts down the game. But nowadays very few electronics output RF so the antenna can be ignored or totally disconnected from the machine. The large blue capacitor is the filter capacitor which helps to smooth out the voltage coming in from the transformer