Arcade Collecting > Pinball
First pinball. cleaning the playfield. UPDATED: pictures added
shardian:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 12, 2008, 12:39:35 pm ---Well, that's good information but not what I meant.
There's a relay mounted on the underside of the playfield, towards the back. Most of the coils on Gottlieb System1s are not MPU controlled. You can manually actuate the relay and then all your coils are hot, enabling you to bat the ball around and hit the pops and slings. It's more a novelty than anything, but it's fun to mess around with.
I think if you knock down all the drop targets or land the ball in a saucer, you're out of luck, though.
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Yeah, that will effectively do nothing towards solving your problem. ;D I'd advise you against manually screwing with those relays, just in case you mess them up.
grbgemen:
so last week i broke down and ordered a new Ni-wumpf replacement board. ::) i was hoping that i could get this board working and i could just sell the new replacement but that didnt happen. the new board came today and i quickly read the manual and plugged it in. set the board to Sinbad and hit power switch. couple seconds went buy and the game started dinging and sure enough it worked. i reached in the coin door and tapped the two switch wires together and added a credit. next thing i know an hour has passed and im still playing the pinball. :laugh2:
all the switches, relays, etc... work wonderfully. i was so afraid i was going to get this pin running and then have all the solenoids be bad or something.
one issue still stands though. when a credit is inserted and the ball is kicked out, the game gives points out. like 30 points or something. it also happens when either the left or right flipper is triggered. basically you can just sit there and rack up points and not have to worry about the ball.
thoughts?
EDIT:: fixed it. had a switch that was closed behind one of the drop targets.
shardian:
What are you going to do with the old board?
grbgemen:
--- Quote from: shardian on June 16, 2008, 10:22:17 am ---What are you going to do with the old board?
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my plan is to blow it up on the 4th of july. ;D
but seriously, im not sure. sell it? keep it?
anyways, the pinball has been running great. every once and a while, i noticed it will out of nowhere just tilt. sometimes it will un-tilt itself after a bit while other times i have to shut the game off before one can play again.
grbgemen:
alright, i got all the parts to re pin the connectors, that will be my next task.
i can always tell when its going to tilt as the displays start flickering pretty bad and random lights in the center of the play field start to light. there is also a faint buzzing sound that i hear when it is tilted.
anyways, the play is pretty fun. ive never played a pinball with double flippers like this. its not very fun when the ball goes right through the two flippers. ::)
little difficult to get the ball up top but i havent really had the time to master that. definitely a quarter eater or i just really suck. prolly the ladder. ;D
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