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Black Hole backglass chaser lights seem dim

By solarvalue

3 years ago



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#6 3 years ago

It's possible you might have a voltage/connection problem BUT even if you are using the original 44 lamps, BH chasers do move pretty fast so the lamps don't really have time to fully light up. If you have 47s there I would try switching to 44s. Also try an LED in one spot and see if it is a lot brighter than lamps, that could rule out an actual problem since they light up instantly. Also you can slow down the chaser lights by changing one resistor on the chaser board (noted in pinside someplace), or just switch to LEDs. That resistor might be out of tolerance on your board too.

Strangely enough, two days ago I finally slid my BH's inner backglass out for the first time since I bought the game in the 90s to clean both backglasses (can you tell I'm lazy?) and the lamps were all very dusty. You'd think they were frosted bulbs! So that can help too if you haven't done it.

#8 3 years ago

The chaser lamps should flash around 3 times a second, unless yours is much faster than that the speed is normal. I can't find the info on that resistor either but I've seen it somewhere.
Okay I found it, R13 on the BH chaser lamp board is 270K, other games with that board that run the lamps slower use higher values all the way up to 1.1 megaohm for Haunted House. But resistors tend to go up in value as they age and from long use. So you could slow down the chaser lamps via this resistor but it is probably not causing yours to run faster than they are supposed to.

#9 3 years ago

Regarding 44s vs. 47s, now I'm wondering if 47s might be brighter in this application where they are blinking on and off so quickly, since they draw less amps so probably have a finer filament that may react faster. But I'm not going to pull my backglass back out again and try it.

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