The Pinball Diaries (what did you do today?)

[spiroagnew]

Of course more is going to come up on that game-it's a STTNG Has it had the tieback voltage mod done on it?

Ahh, the joys of owning a STTNG. I swear every second repair Clay does on his Pinball Ninja site is a STTNG. It's like dating girls from Woodbridge--fun to play around with for a while, but way too high maintenance in the long run.


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[brad808]

As it sits right now none of the tieback mods have been done. Like I said the drop target reset coil is completely missing right now so once I buy one of those I can do the three power cables to one on the coil lug mod. I was also thinking of running a parallel tieback from the drop target down relay to the aux 8 driver. I can do that one at any time. Are those the only mods that it needs?

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[Menace]

Don't bother making up your own cables for the cannon, just buy the pre-made replacements and save yourself the headache.

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[mwong168]

Don't bother making up your own cables for the cannon, just buy the pre-made replacements and save yourself the headache.

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Pinbits is out of stock at the moment but you can email Pam and find out when she will have them available again.

http://www.pinbits.com/index.php?main_p ... mflu746ud2

 

[Menace]

Over the last few days when I actually had some limited free time away from entertaining my kids during this March break I took the time to study the schematics from a Zaccaria Gen2 sound board (this board is from PBrev members Farfalla). The issue at hand was the board speech seemed to be working ok along with a couple of other sound effects, but for the most part there was little to no background music.

After a bit of time with my DMM and O-scope I managed to track down the two bad IC's causing the issue. Swapped them out with good ones from my sound board to confirm and the board is back to 100% functionality. Now I'm waiting for replacements to arrive before I can consider the repair complete.

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[DRANO]

After a bit of time with my DMM and O-scope I managed to track down the two bad IC's causing the issue.

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I think your next installment of the Menace Files should include a crash course on how to use one of these

 

[Menace]

After a bit of time with my DMM and O-scope I managed to track down the two bad IC's causing the issue.

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I think your next installment of the Menace Files should include a crash course on how to use one of these

Using a scope unfortunately requires more than just how to use the device itself, but what to look for and how to interpret as you probe the PCB... which usually comes with years of schooling and field experience. And I'll be brutally honest that isn't something I'd be willing to teach, as I'd probably be REALLY bad at it!

The DMM isn't as bad, but as I've said before in the tools post if you've got a cheapie DMM the first step is getting a fluke. Once you've got that, it's just a matter of knowing what the symbols mean on the DMM (VAC/VDC/Resistance/Diode-Buzz etc) and when to use which setting. Those things are easy to teach, but the knowing what to look for when is the tough part and it's something people either get or don't. (I've found in most cases it cannot be taught, it's just a though process people possess)

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[Luckydogg420]

Well I heve another project lined up. Now that my virtual pinball is mostly done (just software left), it's time to think about the next thing to do. ....and this showed up as a text message from a friend.

"What are you doing with that old air hockey table that's been taking up space." Along with this pic.

Alchohocky. Sounds like fun. Basically it's Canadian beer pong

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

I ordered a bobblehead Spidey lamp for my Gottlieb Spidey - gonna drill a hole in the top of the cabinet and plug it right into the service outlet inside once it arrives in the mail

 

[luch]

you do know that the service socket is always live , when the machine is plugged in . it does not turn off when you turn off the game from underneath

 

[DJdeadlyDALEK]

Yup, I know. Got it plugged into an outlet where I have to flick the light switch on the wall to power up that socket. So the lamp will only be on when Spidey is on

 

[luch]

you were thinking . good job ,

 

[Menace]

Just so you know, it's not overly difficult to re-wire the service outlet so it's switched on and off with the game power.

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[meegis]

Played a SW:EP1 the other day.

Thoughts: Im too tall for it. I was hunched over to see the screen and upper playfield.

Was very annoying to be honest. Anybody else have the same problem?

 

[Grauwulf]

I don't have any problem with my RFM, but I'm only 5'11" tall.

 

[Menace]

I own a P2K and @ 6'1" it's not bad...

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[meegis]

Weird. I'm 6'1 but I am ALL torso. I dunno. Just felt really hunched over.

 

[thewebexpert]

you need to be in a ninja stance.... wide legged

 

[nics135]

I am 6'5" and have never seen the top part of an RFM or SWEP1. I just wait for the ball to come down.... Also the monitor angle seems weird for me too...

 

[meegis]

you need to be in a ninja stance.... wide legged

That's what she said