I recently purchased a 1994 Hallmark Star Trek Klingon Bird of Prey from a fellow Pinsider. This Ornament came ready to install into my Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball machine. However before I installed it in the machine; I wanted to make further modifications to the item. My previous installation had installed a die-cast 2005 Corgi Klingon Bird of Prey for which I'd followed the recommended installation of putting the incandescent light bulbs under the ship:
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I have decided to release the schematics to the public under the TAPR Non-Commercial Open Hardware License which indicates:
You may make products based upon this design, provided you do not make more than ten units in any twelve month period for your personal use.
If you agree with the license terms the resultant schematic is posted here under TAPR/NCL license:
http://pinball-mods.com/blogs/?p=452
Total cost to build this board in single unit quantities as of 6/15/2014 was $14.55 / a pair of boards.
This project requires SMT soldering skills so be prepared. I used a syringe with solder paste to populate the PCBs then used a skillet to reflow the solder. Here's the assembled PCBs:
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Then I assembled tested the circuit first with my 5V bench supply; then with a 6.3VAC transformer from RadioShack:
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With the boards tested; I began refitting the Hallmark KBOP mod which looked like this:
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I removed the green heatshrink hiding the LED wing guns and cut the red & black wires as I had recreated the wires in the PCB and had embedded the resistors hidden under the black heatshrink near the guns:
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I carefully marked drilled the wings of the KBOP and taped them with my #2-56 tap set. You MUST be careful here not to drill through the wings. Here's the PCBs mounted:
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