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Title: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
Post by: Connorsdad 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.

Sent from Amstrad CPC464

Title: Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp?
Post by: CoryBee 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.

Title: Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
Post by: Connorsdad on September 09, 2013, 06:22:01 am

lol title changed :)

Title: Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
Post by: WindDrake 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 (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?9299-Solenoids-vs-Relays)

Title: Re: Anyone fitted Contactors inside cp for pinball buttons?
Post by: PL1 on September 09, 2013, 01:40:29 pm

Martijn is using contactors in his MultiBall Madness II (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,134336.0.html) build and Maximus is using them in his Alchemy (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130727.0.html) build .

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/01/6a8a4eby.jpg)

Video of solenoids and discussion of contactors vs. solenoids starting here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,134336.msg1385439.html#msg1385439).

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


Scott