I joined the club about a year ago.Found one that already had the cabinet restored. The playfield was a little rough but it came with a new Mirco playfield. I did my first and only playfield swap on this AFM, WITHOUT a rotisserie! It turned out beautiful. Cab has mirror chrome side rails, lock down bar, legs and bolts. Got the color DMD, Gozmod saucer board, Pinbits enhanced strobe kit, Cliffy's, Mantis and backboard decal. I stuck with normal bulbs instead of LED's. The inserts are so clean and true that the colors look awesome, even with regular bulbs.

I agree it is a little easy with all the extra balls available. With outlanes wide open my best is 48B and RTU countless times. I have never started RTU without finishing it!

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Has anybody on here ever made it to RTU with no extra balls, open outlanes, and tight tilt? I have never been able to do it. With extra balls turned on I found it too easy and my best score was around 42B. But with EB's off I've never made it to RTU and my best score is around 18B.

How can I get this? Just PM him?

After the 1st one there is a ball saver but it is much shorter.

Try going into Utilities and do a Factory Adjust.

One more thing you could try. Do a Factory Reset. You will lose you high scores but I've seen weird issues on B/W games fixed by doing this.

Looks a hellova lot better than what you had!

Maybe a dumb question, but are you talking about the strobe driver board or the actual board with the xenon lamp on it?

+1 for Gozmod. Makes the saucer lights much better.

Just curious, what's everyone's best score with three balls only, no extra balls?

There is a massive selfie league going on and I put up 14B. Then someone beat it. But then someone doubled it! 28B on a 3 ball game? Really?

I could see it if you made it to Rule the Universe, which I've done plenty of times, but I've never been able to do it on a 3 ball game.

My best on a 3 ball game is 18B and best with all EB's available is 63B.

Maybe it's because my outlanes are wide open and tilt is fairly tight.

Perseverance! After years of owning, I finally got to RTU on a 3 ball game, and did it on ball 2. Game is set up tough!

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D15-D18 are your diodes for the flashlamp circuit. They form a bridge rectifier. Check for AC voltage between J128 pins 3 or 4 and J128 pins 1 or 2. If that is good, now check for DC voltage at the 20v test point. Similarly you could check between any of the red/white wires going to a flasher and ground braid.

If you have AC going into the bridge and no DC coming out of the bridge, it's most likely a failed power diode(P600D). Although there are a couple other things in that circuit like a resistor, a capacitor, and J133.

If you have no AC going into the bridge, double check F107 and the fuse holder and connector and pins of J128.

Just put your meter on AC voltage and put one lead on pin 4 and one lead on pin 2. Should read roughly around 16VAC. This is coming directly off the transformer and through fuse F107.

This diagram may help. That voltage comes from the transformer. It's extremely rare to have a problem with a transformer. Try(with power off obviously) unplugging and re-plugging the large block shaped connectors in the bottom of the cabinet that connect the transformer to the rest of the game.

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Whew, that soldering isn't pretty, but if it works, that's what counts!

When I did a playfield swap on mine I also installed a Mantis protector there. It was years ago and I can't find my pics. I could not seem to get everything to line up correctly. I even emailed Mantis asking about the correct way to install. I wish I could remember the details but it was years ago. I finally figured out a way to make it work and I get no ball sticks there at all. I might be able to get you a picture later today. Good luck, it can be made to work!