The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: pbj on September 10, 2023, 07:18:48 am
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I’m sick of replacing parts on the master display board on my Firepower. I was working on the flashers recently and yet another resistor burned itself in half while the game was on. I’ve got a couple of iffy displays in player 3 and 4 position with segments that don’t work or make the board get red hot.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394351)
So, I took another look at LED replacements. I don’t know if the price has dropped or inflation has dulled my senses but $110 shipped for a complete replacement set seemed reasonable. Only catch is you have to manually assemble it.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394352)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394353)
45 minutes later the master display board was assembled.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394354)
The other four displays went quick. I had this all soldered up and foam bezels slapped on in less than 90 minutes. What the hell else is there to do at 4am?
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394355)
Will smoke test these once everyone else is awake.
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Okay, so. Don't assemble boards at 4am. It turns out that the chip orientation flips on the right side of the board versus the left, which meant I had a bunch of chips in upside down. Lesson learned.
Soooooo....
Round 2 went a lot smoother. It's difficult to photograph these because the digits are actually strobing, but here's Firepower with six digit LEDs on the left, Alien Poker with 7 digit gas plasma displays on the right.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394424)
In person, to my eyes, you would be very hard pressed to tell those weren't original displays in the Firepower.
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Better pic.
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(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=164992.0;attach=394426)
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Love this.
I nearly bought a set myself but was afraid of the 'build your own' at that point in regard to my soldering abilities.
Didn't realize that the original ones would tax ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- that much for current.
I'll have to keep this in mind while I fight with mine.
How many of these beasts do you own if you don't mind my asking?
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At the moment? 4 and I've had them all a very long time. Alien Poker is the last purchase and I bought that 10 years ago. :lol
Body count is probably somewhere around 50-60 games. I used to churn 3-4 a year for the first 10 years or so I collected. Cheap gas, had a truck, and would buy anything that was complete and within budget. I went through a LOT of machines. Now that they're on location I just let other people buy them and play them occasionally. Our local barcade has 21 machines and I put in at least 4 games on each recently. Couldn't feel my hands when I finally left that place.
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I'm surprised you're sitting at only 4 currently but no suprise you've been through many.
Space for these things is a limiting factor for most I think.
Whether one is into OG machines or repros or fan builds or whatever there is certainly a progression and ebb and flow to the hobby.
Keeps it fun and interesting to me at least.
I would love to start a barcade out where I am but I am up to my eyeballs in ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- before I even leave my driveway every day.
Firepower and Alien Poker look like fun machines.
Still need to figure out what is wrong with the EBD but I think I need to replace every ground wire in the whole machine.
All of the white insulation has that lovely turqouise color tone bleeding through it.
Eeek.