Arcade Collecting > Pinball
zizzle toy pinball machines
Chris:
Maybe the answer is just to hack more powerful solenoids into it? :) Or just build a replacement table altogether and just use the game's eletronics to drive the game? :D
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Chris on November 11, 2006, 01:56:09 pm ---The difference is in the amount of force the coil is able to generate. In addition, flipper coils are actually two coils: a more powerful (50 volt) coil for the initial kick, and a less-powerful (25 volt) coil to hold the flipper in place (to keep from burning out the larger coil); an end-of-stroke switch changes from one coil to the other.
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Well, aside from the dual wrap nature of most pinball flipper coils, that small (likely) single wrap coil has a different resistance and shorter wrap length than a full size coil. That doesn't make it a toy, though. It makes it more like a bumper coil.
Chris:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 11, 2006, 05:04:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on November 11, 2006, 01:56:09 pm ---The difference is in the amount of force the coil is able to generate. In addition, flipper coils are actually two coils: a more powerful (50 volt) coil for the initial kick, and a less-powerful (25 volt) coil to hold the flipper in place (to keep from burning out the larger coil); an end-of-stroke switch changes from one coil to the other.
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Well, aside from the dual wrap nature of most pinball flipper coils, that small (likely) single wrap coil has a different resistance and shorter wrap length than a full size coil. That doesn't make it a toy, though. It makes it more like a bumper coil.
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Either way my experience playing it was that the flippers were so weak they could barely get the ball up the ramp.
ChadTower:
What was the condition of the machine? Was it a retail display model? Those are always beat to crap.
Chris:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 11, 2006, 05:13:02 pm ---
What was the condition of the machine? Was it a retail display model? Those are always beat to crap.
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Yes it was, and that's definately a possibility. Or possibly just put together poorly by the employees.
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