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[37"/24"/15"] - '77 Bally Power Play "Donor" Visual Pinball Build
mwong168:
--- Quote from: kizer on May 13, 2010, 01:29:15 pm ---One suggestion. Please take your entire how you set that up in text along with images and put them in a zip file. Host them somewhere as a backup or also host your images on Photobucket or something because as great as that writeup is some day people fade away and it would be shame to loose all that effort you put into it because I'll be damned if I don't want to build one now seeing how easy you made it look.
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I have everything backed up on my external hard drive as well as my media server RAID5 partition which is also where I have my MAME and Visual Pinball setup as well. It's not as hard to build one of these but the most challenging part so far has been figuring out the software setup for 3 screens. I have documented it fairly well in my initial posts so hopefully it will save lots of people who are ready to take the plunge time and frustration. The rest of the work like the cabinet is just being patient, doing it right without rushing. I don't need to use terminal strips, bread boards, quick disconnects or zip ties but I like to take pride in my current and past work. If only I had the male quick disconnects this past weekend I would have finished wiring the buttons and LEDs to my LEDWiz+GP interface. I will always try to be an active member on this forum as well as the HyperSpin forums so if you have any questions or need to see a picture of anything let me know. I can't wait to get this done because I can see the end is near and I'm not talking about 2012 :laugh2:
--- Quote from: njay on May 17, 2010, 11:07:05 am ---Awesome work m8 ! :applaud:
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Thanks!
kizer:
Nice Job on the quick disconnects in the cab. I might have to barrow that idea. ;)
mwong168:
I picked up a pack of male/female quick disconnects to use on all my LEDs installed in the buttons. Then proceeded to install them into my cab and had to use a dremel to trim down the old flipper button holes since they were smaller.
I made a hole for the power cord from my Belkin power box and mounted the Stern 3 button service switches to the back of my coin door which I will use to adjust the volume.
Right now I am just going to light up the existing insert coin area using two LEDs and driving them from my LEDWiz. I had to drill out an existing hole bigger to fit the LED holder in place as you can see.
I might replace both of these with two GGG Nova CDRs.
I finished soldering the rest of the wires to the breadboard with all the resistors and attached it to a 8 port terminal strip. The other two wires just hanging there will be for the coin door LEDs.
I <3 terminal strips and since all the buttons will require a +5V line I made 3 ports I can tap off of for it and used the other 3 ports for common ground later for the buttons.
I tried my best to keep the wiring as neat as possible and made each wire to measure so there is no extra coiled anywhere but enough slack to work with in the case I have to disconnect. I grouped each and zip tied them together to keep it looking neat. I will put some electrical tape around all the connections there in case any of them touch as well but wanted to make sure it all works before I do that.
It was 2am last night when I finally powered it on and glad everything worked on the first try cause I would have most likely stayed up to troubleshoot if there was any problems. I don't know what problem another member had before with their LEDWiz but once you install the software and enable the ports you have LEDs hooked up to it works marvelous. I just have to finish up wiring the coin door LEDs and tonight I will probably wire up the micro switches to the GPWiz.
shilmover:
Quick questions...
Why do you have a "Launch Ball" & a "Rock me" button? are they not the same?
mwong168:
I am going to use the "Rock Me" for Tilt >:D Then I also have my mercury switches for left and right nudge.