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Author Topic: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?  (Read 1065 times)

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Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
« on: September 09, 2013, 03:19:53 am »
I was wondering whether to fit Contactors inside my cp for feedback when the pinball flipper buttons are pressed. Has anybody done this ?
If so could you recommend which Contactors to purchase please.

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Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2013, 03:31:49 am »
No idea but from title my mind thought you wanted to put contactors in your control panel so that when you were playing a game hitting regualar buttons it would have a heavy tactile feedback. Loud as hell I am sure.
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Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2013, 06:22:01 am »
lol title changed :)
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Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013, 10:43:37 am »
The Virtual Pinball cab guys do this (along with a lot of other mods). Though, I think they use solenoids, not contactors.

Here's a decent thread over at the Hyperspin Forums.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?9299-Solenoids-vs-Relays
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Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2013, 01:40:29 pm »
Martijn is using contactors in his MultiBall Madness II build and Maximus is using them in his Alchemy build .



Video of solenoids and discussion of contactors vs. solenoids starting here.

TL;DR version: most contactors use 12v, most pinball solenoids use 48v or more.


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