Any electrical engineer types out there familiar with motor control/industrial automation?

Have a half dozen 1.5 HP motors on VFDs (AB Powerflex 525.) Installed line reactors and a few of them started behaving erratically, like wouldn't run over 15Hz or wouldn't stop when given command.

Grounding checks out, removed VFD MOV jumpers and that fixed two of them but one is still acting as noted. Works fine when line reactor is bypassed.

Anybody wanna take a shot?

Is there a cooking/recipe thread?

I need dinner ideas where you cut shit up and put it on the table - stuff like tacos, “poke” bowls, anything that can put a reasonably healthy and fresh dinner in front of adults and a 2 year old with little preparation.

Make ahead stuff is ok too.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 12:03 pm Any vintage video arcade game experts out there?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FSSoctsGWYsqAktY6

I think this is from a sort of bootleg or generic arcade console.

Any idea what game this is? Or more likely, which game it's intended to resemble most?

Street Fighter?

Item shown is a plexiglass panel with graphics silkscreened onto the back surface.
I think this is the piece that would go across the backlit (?) top panel of an arcade game.
Late 1980s vintage I would say.

I'd say you're about right with the date, just because of what is depicted. If this were earlier in the 80s, it would likely be sci-fi (and more likely to be made of glass). Street fighting kung fu guys means it's probably from 1988 or later. You're right about where it goes, also. This is called the "marquee" and in a generic cabinet they are designed to be interchangeable, so when you change the game board, you just swap the marquee for another one. They are not all exactly the same size however and the precise dimensions might be a clue as to what kind of cabinet it fits in (to somebody more expert than me).

Your marquee doesn't have any name on it, which makes me think it is intended to be a generic marquee. Sometimes an arcade would build their own cabinets (since anyone with a bit of carpentry skill can do so), and they'd print their own marquees to go in them, intended for no game in particular. Which could make it difficult to identify as it might be unique to a particular arcade. It's a nice example, could be rare, who knows.

If you're at all interested in this crap, here are some that I own...

This is a generic marquee that was made for an arcade in my town, although I bought this one from somebody in a completely different city. Originally, all the cabinets in the arcade would have had this same marquee. Helpfully, it has the address and the date on it (1981) along with the name of the arcade. Screenprint on glass. A real work of art! Some local draftsman having their best crack at a Chris Foss spaceship.



This off-model Bomb Jack looks like a bootleg, but it's actually one of many officially licensed imports with a marquee created by the local importer, Chaston Chastronics in Christchurch, who also built their own cabinets and leased them out to fish & chip shops all over the country. Apparently they would change their marquee designs regularly. I guess this is probably from 1984 or 85. Screenprint on plexi and not nearly as cool.



And finally this is the kind of crap that would end up stuffed in a cabinet's marquee slot at the end of its life after everybody stopped caring.

Thanks for the info!

That "TETRIS" is really something. The "I" looks markered on!

Do you own those cabinets/consoles?

The marquee I have fits into the growing category of "cool things I own that I don't need to possess for the rest of my life" and is therefore headed for liquidation.
eBay usually feels like an OK way to do this that allows the item to go live with a collector or specialist who is likely to look after it.
I just want to be able to list it (and describe it) in a way that will allow interested parties to find the auction.

Teacher's Pet wrote: The marquee I have fits into the growing category of "cool things I own that I don't need to possess for the rest of my life" and is therefore headed for liquidation.
eBay usually feels like an OK way to do this that allows the item to go live with a collector or specialist who is likely to look after it.
I just want to be able to list it (and describe it) in a way that will allow interested parties to find the auction.

Well, the bidding war between mysterious billionaire video game collectors failed to materialize, it sold for ten bucks.

But I found it in the trash, it was time to get rid of it, and I didn't want to see it just get thrown out (again), so I guess I got that going for me.