Arcade Machine Motherboard Repair - iiRcade Gold Edition

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[@dragonslair279]

Thank you Alex! It was my iiRCade Gold Edition you fixed! You can keep it as there is no way I can send you a pinball machine! 😅

[@LatitudeSky]

Those of us who own or work on arcade machines just need to inform Alex about arcade machine auctions in SoCal and let him shop for himself. A machine that needs a little work can often be had for a good price.

[@LatitudeSky]

Failing that, he would probably enjoy a Pandora box just fine.

[@Horus9339]

Maybe think about posting a video of the machine back up and running. I am building my own MAME/Emulator machine at the moment and I for one would appreciate seeing your machine running.

[@ranjitmandal1612]

🌚

[@MrDeadrage]

3:59 OMG rip

[@Rambosquirtle]

I’m an arcade technician and your videos have helped me tremendously in board repair. I’ve even repaired pinball machines. This was fun to watch.

[@Bovada-c3i]

Hi Rambo! I would like to become an arcade repair technician. I recently took an iPhone/mobile device repair class and advanced soldering class. They were both a week long. I am starting to build a repair workbench and got a rework station and some other stuff. I plan on buying old damaged units and learning to repair them myself. What is the best way to start learning as arcade specific repair? Thanks and have a great day.

[@rent2ownnz]

its not the 50c part that the client pays for, its knowing how to find, troubleshoot, replace and retest that part sorts the problem - Top Job!!

[@chaoswires2734]

Every time i solder SMD and everything goes as planned, I hear legendary voice in my head: "Look at this! We did amazing job!" 😊. Your mindset and skills give me extra motivation.

[@DylanSaliba]

NO schematic and balls of STEEL! Always a pleasure to watch you work sir. Thank you for sharing.

[@wettuga2762]

This is EXACTLY the basic skills I would love to learn one day: how to probe hardware for failures, measure individual components, look for shorts and figure out where the problem is without needing any schematics. A basic tutorial for each type of component and what values / currents / drops we should expect would be awesome!

[@Yaroslav_55]

So, you decide to watch guy, who test unknown board by plugging power supply without any measuring? Plugging twice? He is idiot! What you want to learn from idiot?!

[@dangriggs617]

Hi Alex, I'm a slot technician and repair slot machines for a living. I have been watching your videos for about a year now and they have really helped me tramedasly. Thank you so much for taking the time to do these videos

[@blugoose86]

I worked at a pinball factory in my early years. One of the most fun jobs I've ever had. From assembly to board repair but final testing was a hoot. I thought it was my dream job. Imagine playing pinball for 8-9 hours a day and getting paid. Realistically, after a month, it wasn't fun. I transferred back to repair. That's a pretty small board compared to what we had in the 70's. Great video Alex. It could have been way worse.

[@mpitts98]

Greetings from Germany. Great tutorial and repair. Keep up the good work. Always a joy watching and learning.

[@Zombi-uw9ml]

Ah, wie ich sehe, ein anderer Deutscher der seine Videos guckt :)

[@soulraizor1]

​@@Zombi-uw9mlgibt noch mehr ;)

[@francomarianardini681]

“if my granfather had four balls he would have been a pinball machine” common way of saying in Tuscany, Italy! great repair Alex!

[@xapns_cw]

We say "If my Grandmother had balls, she would be my Grandfather" here in Greece. 😂😂😂

[@kraykray9585]

I am just fascinated by these videos. I have no clue how this stuff works but its awesome to see the process of troubleshooting and measuring components to figure out whats wrong. Lol

[@PPTEsch]

Alex, Love your videos. You should invent a programmable foot switch for a multi-meter, so you can switch between your 3 favorite modes without having to drop a probe. Keep up the great work!

[@petersmith5199]

What a pleasure to watch. Thanks Alex!

[@f5studios907]

Anytime I have a job I that involves gegtting my hadns on a PCB baord, I send them your way. Bet there is, continue doing good work!

[@panosliquid]

Good morning from Athens Greece. Nice job.!!!

[@anthonydevito1298]

"It's an arcade motherboard, so the board wants to play games" hahahaha

[@Mister_Michael]

Very nice repair, you really are a professional. I was able to repair a Philips Perfect draft using your soldering technique. It's crazy that such a tiny part can make you get rid of the whole pinball machine sometimes

[@osamaalkassem5676]

Thanks for your time and efforts , as always good work and repair from Alex and big Boss.

[@TheDanielSpies_Arcades]

Nice repair 🙌🏻 loved it !!

[@128Kgames]

Probably would have been good to advise up front that this was a home arcade cabinet, not a commercial machine, just so they take that into perspective. I have an iiRcade Gold cabinet im trying to diagnose myself and might just need the same type of assistance 😊

[@vucciria]

Always the best! Hi from Italy

[@hightttech]

I was working on a Stern INDIANA JONES (c.2008) pinball today. Pinballs require a lot of love and attention. I already have 6 hours into INDY, and about another 6 hours to go when parts arrive. Power driver PCB needs some transistors too; this will be $1500 ticket to make it work like new. And a year from now, there will be a whole new list of problems. PINBALL TECHS STAY BUSY AS LONG AS OWNERS HAVE WATER-COOLED CREDIT CARDS.

[@Desaved]

Amazing talent. I wish I would have gotten this type of training. I'd be rich and everyone who knows me would be happy!

[@Targetlockon]

Have a good day Alex was just watching one of your videos! Just saw this as it was just posted on the feed.

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

I would have loved to see you use the atomizer!

[@madscientistx69]

Great Job as always !

[@dainiuslukosevicius]

Good job! Respect 🤝🙂

[@Peter-Retired]

Very nice work ☺

[@itsEpsilon]

Hey Alex, I noticed you haven't uploaded anything in a week. Just checking in to make sure everything's okay with you.

[@davidguillory4311]

Great job!🎉

[@xlwirelesselectronicrepair]

Please make more videos. We missed your videos

[@mrBDeye]

Alex is a pinball wizard. 😎

[@MARKLARverklas]

thank you for a nice lesson

[@mohamedomar67]

Please come to South Africa I have many arcade machines and no one to repair like you

[@allardsylvain2773]

Thank you for your video very interesting. What is the temperature air flow to unsolder caps ?? Thanks

[@michaelblack5011]

amazing fix 👍👍

[@burn0u71]

yup. awesome as always. man you have helped me with my little repairs i do here and there for myself. i thank you for that. your videos are amazing and very informative, you have great content. keep doing what you do so well

[@JasonTheJJGamer5442]

Better than the original Fantastic

[@MikBaa]

Twilight Zone table is a good choice 😉👍

[@wildinthejardin]

As usual, l loved the video 😊

[@YTS1626]

Good morning from India

[@techfuny5654]

Good day Alex

[@simeow2971]

Alhamdulillah great work 🎉🎉🎉

[@danielczvr]

Good morning from Czech

[@Foxx_69]

Like this format. Keep it up sir

[@perkulant4629]

Lmao the luckiest cap removal ever. Nice one 😂

[@gamerelated3887]

I wouldn't be so sure! I've watched a few hundred of his videos and this is not a 1 off. I have seen him select the correct capacitor on the first try, many times. Alex is very good at what he does!

[@MrRoccale]

we do an amazing job

[@garyr7027]

Parrellel caps have the same value. It wouldn't make sense for them to be different. Good find btw, you found the needle in the haystack.

[@atomicskull6405]

Apparently sometimes they do for high frequency noise I've seen 0.1nf and 0.01nf caps placed in parallel on power busses a lot. This doesn't make sense to me but I keep seeing it in designs.

[@magid5441]

مشكور يا غالي على الفايده.. بس تغير لونه واضح عن البقية

[@j.lietka9406]

Right!

[@BillEyles]

Great job my friend

[@gerrymichaud3851]

I'd love to have a pinball machine but the prices are crazy. I remember when I lived in Pensacola, I found a old Wild West shooting Gallery at a thrift store. Price to play was 10 cents. I refurbed it but when I moved I had to sell it.

[@atefibrahim8944]

I'm watching this at 2:30 am! Is this a sign 🤔

[@mxsniper223]

u should said okay gentlemen's we catched the bad guy 😂😂

[@andrewg2430]

Your cap looks better than factory. Yes sir, I would say so myself.

[@D.R.Pinball]

Depends on what pinball machine you’re wanting

[@gamerpaddy]

what i find more fascinating is how fast his solder melts when blasting it with hot air one some high thermal mass boards without preheating.. when i set mine to 370C it takes forever and when its 420C the board gets charred and bubbles immediately, long before solder starts melting lol

[@nurtekin429]

It would really help if you show how you measure and know when components are not working?. That is key component of repairing

[@jimharmon3404]

Is that 10 uF cap polarized? That seems to be a very large value for a nonpolarized cap.

[@rokrok27]

hey i wanted toi ask , did you develop your current northridge fix website yourself ?

[@ronankerr6798]

Hi Alex what LCR meter are you using?

[@NoaBindels]

Bring fun toys to repair xD

[@masdukuaumar8762]

Thank you sir But i have one laptop with dimming screen i try changing another screen but the problem appear please any other way to solve this problem.

[@TexasTimelapse]

What's the status on the collaboration video with Jayz2Cents? I've been looking forward to this for months now.

[@85thday]

What did you end up receiving

[@MrDeadrage]

3:59 OMG

[@sylvain19724]

Best 👍

[@sunilkhajuria9018]

Alex good job where is your Pink shirt you look cool in that God bless you bro 💖💖💖💖😍

[@shaunkelly9053]

There’s a pinball machine at Costco right now. I think it was 4k.

[@snowman1185-v]

🎲 💡The Wizard does it again!

[@addydiesel6627]

Capacitors. The bane of every board 😢

[@suryavanshib]

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

[@Cleofizoid]

Board wants to play games...literally 👍

[@Jason-zh7wo]

Nice job, good luck getting a pinball machine 😂😂

[@DJ_Bola]

Dang, i had an label printer that did the spark. I did not know that was due to a short..😢

[@lipserra]

Hi friend, I'm looking for the board view of the Laptop Asus Rog Strix G16 - G614J, I can't find it on the internet, could you send it to me? I'm grateful

[@عامرالساعدي7616]

You king of shorts

[@robertbartram5632]

sherlock holmes and columbo all in one,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@mkm8234]

Alex is so dang handsome.

[@sbc383zz]

So dreamy. lol

[@houssam-the-explorer]

allahi barek

[@alebelambawnegash]

please ShoW As multimeter Reading Please

[@0lei3]

the board wanna play games , we can play games to

[@slimsunny9994]

I understand a themed pinball machine for that price

[@Jesselovespinball]

Alex , I can get you set up with a pinball . Hit me up !

[@aliemlek]

👍👌👍

[@chuckthetekkie]

Even good caps go bad.

[@kendoty2463]

. . . Scary how unreliable parts are today . . . 😮

[@phazonclash]

10:12 😆

[@Marauder1981]

Thank god your name isn´t Jimmy, or your name would be "Jimmy´ll fix it"

[@hamzawelgo8622]

First comment of the day from Burkina Faso.

[@orange11squares]

tell me the capital of that?

[@donald1056]

Use your thermal camera - why don't you use electric tweezers instead of air - little faster - my opinion - that's what I use - good day

[@milkonbean]

If it aint broke dont fix it, im assuming he uses what is comfortable for him and i imagine you are comfortable with what you use

[@hafidkd1892]

طريقة تحدثك وتصرفك تشبه الطريقة الجزائرية هل انت عربي 😂

[@Sapphire_93]

🗿👀

[@yummy_blueberry]

Love from Pakistan

[@rongray8934]

Awesome Job!