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Central Park Kill or Save

By pinhead52

9 years ago


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#3 9 years ago

Switch to SS via Arduino. Or sell me the PF and I'll do it. My students are loving their Arduino based Aspen.

#26 9 years ago
Quoted from btw75:

Well... I don't really agree with that either - but Nicki wants to turn a nice Flipper Fair into an SS - so instead of that, this Central Park would be ideal!!!

It's my opinion that there's no need to turn a working EM into SS; trashed SS and trashed EMs are sadly plentiful and converting either to a different SS control mechanism (in the name of science) is easily justified and doesn't take any working machines out of circulation. This assumes you're doing this conversion just to learn how to do it (science) and to get a non-working machine working again.

That said, if some one owns the machine they can do whatever they want to it. If the OP tossed the whole machine to the curb right as the garbage truck was headed to his house, he'd only get thumbs down if he told us about it.

If the wiring to the PF is still intact (you don't need harnesses), I'd consider an Arduino/SS conversion. I say that having not studied the schematics or having to deal with the smell (which must be gross). I'd toss the cab as is never be okay with that thing in my house knowing its past (ignorance is bliss).

Once you head down the dark road of a Arduino based ressurection, you can modernize and break every traditional rule. For example you can use a 24v power supply with sufficient amperage from a laptop for playfield coils then buy/build a voltage divider to get 5v (or down to 12v) to power the arduino, switch matrix and lamps. It's a fun project.

If the wiring to the playfield is no longer intact (I don't mean the harness, I mean wires are chewed up along their runs) I wouldn't bother using it for this and I'd part it out.

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