Quoted from vid1900:
If they add WiFi, and internet and everything else, they won't be serviceable.
Right now I can field repair any pinball circuit board.
If they start with all the micro surface mount stuff, it will be board swaps only = $$$$$$$$

And I can field repair any WiFi controller and patch operating systems on the fly. That couldn't be further from reality. You may not be able to service it but others sure can. It will be just an additional skillset above and beyond the current pinball skillset.

#37 11 years ago

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Pinchroma

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Quoted from vid1900:
You are much better with a soldering iron than I.
I'd need to be at my workbench with my hot air station to replace a TSOP.

You are assuming you would bother repairing the one
On the motherboard

#51 11 years ago

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Pinchroma

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Quoted from vid1900:
Sure, think of how many 30 year old +++ games I repair.
Techs in the future won't want to hear that Cockfight Pinball Company made it a CPU board swap only repair. That would suck because Cockfight is long out of business, and near the end that CPU board was selling for $900. They used a 7 layer circuit board to save some money and shrink the size of the board, but that 7 layer board is impossible to field repair.

Exactly. One of the design considerations of newer style machines are off the shelf parts that are field replaceable. For example if the WIFI controller on the board were to go you would disable it in the bios of the board and subsequently install a USB wifi controller sold as a kit and install a driver which would be a near automated process.

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