Black Knight
Williams, 1980
Black Knight Limited Edition
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Hello fellow BK fans. This is my second machine, replacing a Space Shuttle and joining a Johnny Mnemonic. I'm giving it a good cleaning and was replacing the drop target stickers tonight when I took a good look at the picture on the sticker - What is that red thing behind the Black Knight? My son says evil lizard dude. What do you think?
I think you're right on the plume. I see it on the back glass and some other versions of the sticker. The original flyer shows these stickers printed as only red and black on a white background, so apparently mine haven't aged well.
Quoted from hooch333:Has anyone ever seen their displays cycle? I took a video of mine, and tried to upload it to show example, but the site will not allow it. The game plays perfect, display keeps correct score, all the digits work, and are bright. But whenever it is on, all the displays cycle each digit from left to right. Even when I am in the diagnostic edit mode it does it! It almost seems like it is stuck in some sort of an attract mode to me. I have looked through the book for display settings, but could not find any options. Maybe it is a dip-switch setting? I am not sure, but need some help.
This apparent cycling in the video is normal and is a result of the camera's movie frame rate interacting with the refresh rate of the scoring displays. There is no setting in the Black Knight to fix it since it is native to how the displays work. If you dig around you may be able to find the correct setting for your camera to sync with the displays but I don't know what those settings would be.
Quoted from vintageclub:Here's some gameplay of my Black Knight. Just got it finished before taking it to the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown 2016. » YouTube video
Nice BK! What is that hanging ball over the left MagnaSave? And what is the ball track across the playfield?
Quoted from practicalsteve:I need to see a video of this.
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Quoted from Travish:Yes there is a piece of metal you can put between the posts and the plate that keeps the ball from hitting. I made one out of a piece of stainless kick plate that goes on the bottom of a door. You could just use any thin metal and trim the same shape as the plastic. It also helps the ball from popping out when hit hard and there are no other balls in the trough. I can post a picture tonight if you need. Better than that, I will make you one if you want.
Any thoughts on using a piece of Lexan or some other clear solution for this so that the plastic could be lit like the rest of the playfield plastics? I have the metal plate but it blacks out the majority of the pretty plastic.
Quoted from Travish:There is a bulb behind the u-turn on the left but the rail blocks all the light. I think it would be hard to light that area because the ball would hit the bulb or get in the way. I guess you could use thin lexan and install another bulb socket and make it work with one of the "stalk" led's somehow.
I may give this a try but first I've got to work through a drop target reset solenoid that's stuck on. Hopefully replacing the driver transistors does it.
I just installed Comet Sunlight LEDs in the GI and color matches for the inserts. Wow, it really lights up! And the sunlight LEDs give it a natural color that brightens everything.
Good morning fellow BKers. My Black Knight was left on overnight and now this morning the solenoids are not doing anything and the Black Knight is skipping words in his phrases. I'm sure that I can figure out the solenoid issue but does anyone have an idea of what might be happening with the speech?
Quoted from Gogojohnnyquack:Good morning fellow BKers. My Black Knight was left on overnight and now this morning the solenoids are not doing anything and the Black Knight is skipping words in his phrases. I'm sure that I can figure out the solenoid issue but does anyone have an idea of what might be happening with the speech?
Black Knight is back! The ball-release solenoid in the trough was intermittently working. I found it's trigger wire on switch row connector 2J3 and punched it down good. This must have been the final straw in the Q15 driver transistor's battle to stay alive and it shorted, heating up the solenoid and taking it out. I ordered and installed a new solenoid, replaced Q15 and Q14 transistors, and now all is better!
I don't know how this ended up related to the sounds but all of the sounds are back to normal as well.
Thank you everyone for your input on this.
Quoted from vintageclub:Did you do the fuse mod on the bridge rectifiers? Its not related to your issue at all, but if one of them shorts then it'll try to burn your house down. Since you're in soldering mode anyways, might as well do it.
Funny you ask... I constructed a pair of jumpers, mounted the pair of fuse holders, and when I went to try and pull the wires from the bridge rectifiers I found that they were SOLDERED! I stopped there and am considering whether I leave them, chop the rectifiers out and install new ones with re-terminated wires, or cut the factory wires and terminate onto the fuse holders.
Quoted from vintageclub:No, thats completely normal. You can just splice the fuse holder inline, using the existing soldered-on wire to the bridge rectifier. Sometimes they soldered them on, sometimes it was lug connectors, sometimes it was soldered-on lug connectors. Just get it done however you must. I've seen photos and heard the stories of the games that don't have this done and its NOT GOOD.
It has been done, thank you for the disaster-scenario encouragement. Those wires are pretty short to work with but it came out fine:
Hey all. I don't have my Black Knight anymore and had purchased a custom LED OCD for it but never installed it. I have no other System 7 games at the moment so am selling the LED OCD kit, $135 + $15 shipping:
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I will dig into it more this weekend and report back... 