Chapter 6) Did Amplifone solve all of Wells-Gardners problems?
The Amplifone was commissioned as a replacement to the infamous, failure-prone Wells-Gardner. Unfortunately it had a horrendously unreliable Achilles’ heel; the HV transformer. This part is widely (but falsely) believed to be impossible to replace because there are no more HV transformers around. Fortunately, this is incorrect and they are readily available, even though they are a bit expensive.
