FS: Semi-Universal Pinball/Video IO tester boards. (Long Island, NY)

[HHaase]

Ok, I did something silly.  I had a need for a multiple LED test strip, and decided I wanted to have some printed for me.  Things snowballed from there.
So, I have a good sized run of production quality boards on the way.

These are 20 LED test strips,  with dual .100 or .156 molex connectors.   The .100 can be used as a pair of 10 pin connectors, or a single 20 pin.

Should work great for pretty much any pinball using .156 headers and ground-switched solenoid drivers (Williams, Bally, Atari, Data East, Zaccharia, etc.)
Use it as a switch tester for control panels.  Anything that you could use a strip of test LED's all at the same time.

Dual power feeds, in case you want to split a couple of different power styles, or jumper J1 to just use it all from a single source.

Selling bare boards for now, $7 shipped for the first one, $6 each additional.  (Within the US. overseas may run more).  Should be arriving here March 24th.

http://tinyurl.com/4v8ddye

-Hans

[BobA]

Do you have a schematic of the board?  Just wondering what chips are being used.

[HHaase]

Nothing complicated.

A pair of .100 headers,  a pair of .156 headers,  a pair of 10-LED bar graphs, and 20 resistors.  A small jumper wire, a resistor leg will work fine for that.  External wiring to suit your needs.

Resistors sized to preference and input voltage,  but 1/4 watt anywhere in the 150-250ohm range will be fine with +5v inputs.

-Hans

[HHaase]

As I posted up on a couple other places, the boards arrive today, and look great.
http://www.siegecraft.us/pinball/tester-002.jpg

So, I just HAD to put one together to test it out.....
http://www.siegecraft.us/pinball/tester-001.jpg

More than enough to go around...
http://www.siegecraft.us/pinball/tester-003.jpg

It will take me a few days to get everything sorted out and shipped, as I'm still waiting on the shipping envelopes, and I need to tweak the parts list a touch.
Pricing stays as I last quoted, and I am selling these ONLY as un-assembled bare boards right now. $7 shipped for the first, $6 each additional in the same order, within the USA.

Outside the US, I just haven't calculated shipping yet, but will do so upon request.

-Hans

[HHaase]

No offense taken at all.

I mostly needed it for testing solenoid circuits independent of the playfield wiring.  Hook up the wire clip to a 5v source,  the header connector to the solenoid connection on the driver board, and instead of firing the solenoid on the playfield it will blink the LED's.  It's also designed to directly press onto the I/O boards of ATARI pinballs to do the same thing.   I'm also going to make one up for the special solenoids on Williams machines,  split a board 50/50 with an LED bank on one side and a dip-switch row on the other. 

I know that some guys on KLOV are going to use them for testing control panels for vids.  I'm eager to see what they come up with.

It's nothing too fancy, really just a couple banks of test lights on a single board.   I got the inspiration from Leon, the guy that writes all of the pinball diagnostic ROM's, he uses a similar design for various pinball designs in his test procedures on his website. Mainly in his Bally, Zacchia and Atari sections.

The most interesting idea I've seen so far is for testing the address/data bus on Zaccharia machines.

For now, these are just the bare boards. 

-Hans