Looks good. You have to get that bumper cap replaced though. Definitely not the one that came with the machine. I personally enjoy playing this pin but it doesn't get a lot of love due to those out lanes..... Once its dolled up with LED's it really sounds!!! Enjoy it.

... It really shines!!

I have one i took out of my spy hunter, as i upgraded to an alltek unit. It worked fine. Email me if you are interested.

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Installed a Pinsound speaker in my Elektra.... Vibrates the whole room on loudest setting!! A little pricey but definitely cool.

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Small victories are awesome, aren't they!!

I so want a Paragon...... some day....... great collection!!

Do you have the balls in the game? My Elektra is the same way......

Working on a Embryon and it has sound issues and no flashers.

I’m thinking the MPU is the culprit with the sound. Boot up the game, and go into the settings to the sound test option, the displays are blank and no sounds. Connectors are good going to the MPU, J4, and J1 on the sound board. If I do a sound test from the sound board, they come through the speaker loud and clear.

I haven’t dealt with the flashers yet. I’m thinking I have to do tests at the expander board under the playfield and the red drop targets associated with it?

Forgot to mention… I’m using good aftermarket boards…. Even tried my Alltek MPU and still get blank displays during the sound test #4 in the game test mode…. No numbers at all. It should show a sound associated with 01…. Nothing. Just blank. I’m stumped….

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Embryon issues

Looking for some advise as to what the issue might be….

Working on an Embryon, and the second to the left pop bumper was working for a few hits then dead, constantly doing this. So I change out the diode with a fresh 1n4004. Pop bumper works awesome!! Well, thought I was done and after a few games, other things started to crop up…knocker knocks frequently, only the far left pop bumper light comes on at the beginning of the game.

Now, before I added that diode, the pop bumper to the far right, occasionally, when I pressed on the skirt, would pop but some of the playfield insert lights would come on and off, as well. I didn’t mess with it, because it was working fine and it only did it a few times.

Those are my dilemmas, any help appreciated. I’m assuming some kind of matrix issue involved - there are still older diodes and capacitors lingering on other switches. Don’t know if that could be part of the problem…all I know is that the gremlins are getting me good this time!

So, initially I was getting a closed 5 switch(outhole) in the switch test. There’s two in the trough, the left one was stuck and broken…so I have another ordered to fix that error.

They asked me to fix one of the pops because it’s not activating when the ball hits the skirt. I continuously tapped on the skirt, and eventually it would start popping for 5/6 times until it was dead again. So, I figured, clean switch the contacts and change the diode. They were original and I had to get under the hood anyways, so I did that. Pop bumper works awesome now.

When I was tapping the other pops, I noticed the far right one would pop, but 7/8 insert lights would turn on and off at the same time. I found that odd…but it didn’t do it all the time.

So, I left the machine for the day, everything seemed to be working okay otherwise. Later that evening, they contacted me to let me know that the knocker was firing multiple times during a game and that the left pop bumper light was coming on and staying on, but the other 3 pops were not.

I’m waiting for video to see the issues, and I’m not going back for a couple weeks to attempt a fix. Figured rattling some other brains besides mine might help me get a better idea what’s up. I can’t imagine changing a diode would cause any of these issues but I’m open to all ideas.

Hope that clarifies the issues I’m looking to resolve….

Thank you for any help.

Interesting situation going on my Embryon project. I installed my Alltek solenoid driver board to see what was going on….

So my flippers die out, and I went into solenoid test mode…as the solenoids fire off, things are fine until the right sling triggers, which then causes the right Outlane flipper to show a short, which causes the flippers to not work any longer….. interesting, right?

Thoughts, ideas?