As Mike said, it was a great doc and there were a LOT of local collectors / players in attendance last night which was great to see. Had a chance to chat with Robert and his Dad Maurizio and the film makers afterwards. Robert even signed a few movie posters for a few of us.
One of the two cases has been pretty much ruled as bogus, the other has been confirmed as legit but the autopsy showed the kid had 2 week old scar tissue around is heart indicating he had a heart attack and playing the game pushed him over the edge.
There was a third indirect death years later...
Contact Monkeybug. He's got a nice X-Men up for sale right now;
http://pinballrevolution.com/threads/grand-lizard-spiderman-black-x-men-le.4606/#post-40587
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Yes my mistake, Gorgar only has one diode on the flipper coil across the two outside lugs. If you're looking at the coil with the lugs facing up and on the left the banded side of the diode should be towards the lower lug.
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This is a series wound coil, which means there are actually 2 coils in one. A high power flip winding and a low power hold winding. This is why you have 3 lugs and two diodes on this coil. Once you have clipped the diodes off the coil, measure the resistance of each coil (across the lugs each...
Yep, anything less than 2 ohms on a coil usually indicates a short circuit. I'd clip and replace the diodes on that coil and try again.
Make sure you check both coil windings, as there are two. (but usually it's just the power winding that shorts)
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In the game of pinball, there is no greater reward than Wizard Mode – a hidden level that is only unlocked when a player completes a series of lightning-speed challenges. Robert Emilio Gagno has dedicated most of his life to mastering Wizard Mode, and is...
Mabye pull the wires off the coils on the new PF and fire up the game, see if the fuse stops blowing. If that solves the fuse blowing issue you know there is some sort of issue with the flippers.
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You must connect the wires up to the new coil in relation to the diode bands, not the coil lugs. If you want to connect the wires to the same lugs you must change the diodes so they match the old coils first.
Where you connected them backwards you may have also destroyed the diodes on the...
If it's an older machine (pre Sys9/11) the head will have to be removed from the game (unless it's a Zaccaria), which means you will have to disconnect a bunch of wire harnesses from the PCB's in the head and maybe in the lower cab (again depending on the era / title). Bring a sharpie and just...
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