Hello elektra fans, new owner of a project pin, hoping to get her going 100%

To that end, I noticed the r1 is clipped on the power board. I was wondering if this might be for any particular reason? Mine powers up and you can start a game, but some features do not work, and the ruleset seems messed up along with the sound fx.

Thank you.

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Answer my own question. It seems to be part of a bridge on R1, so doesn't affect the flipper and coil voltage. Curious if anyone knows why it is there... I went ahead and reconnected it.. no issues, no change. The issues for the game turned out to be a bad ground pin on one of the MPU headers.
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I think the last issue now is the sound.
-The Speech is perfectly clear
-The drone background sound is clear
-In game sound effects seem to be all hiss / static .

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for the time-

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could share their Elektra settings (switches and soft settings), that they like to use? I see there are a number of liberal and conservative settings. I have the bg sound drone on which is ok.

Some settings such as the left bank standups on the main PF seem like a cons. setting is best, so it doesn't look like lights are out.. but some other things like having the ball kickout on the lower pf when there is time etc, obviously makes sense.

Anyway, just kind of wondering what most people run, as I really have no experience with this game, but want to give it a fair shake. thank you-

Interesting. Thank you. Yes, that seems to be how mine is set up now.. I've had a couple of long ball times on the lower. I guess the trick would be making it such that the scoring is more balanced, I get the game could be won or lost based on those scores regardless of the upper PFs.

I hate timer drain balls. I noticed the PF can be adjusted for pitch slightly as well. Perhaps it could be set up to be more difficult.

Thank you- that's helpful, as honestly, I was not sure where to look first .

Do you know what other sound cards are compatible? I have a Xenon, and access to a Flash Gordon, but they both seem to be different models and have the two boards etc.

Thank you-

Thank you - Just an update, I finally was able to put some work on this again and have the S&T all fixed up.

In case it helps someone else, my symptom was a lot of static and no sound effects ( Background sound and voice did work)

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Replacing the U14 LM3900 opamp resolved the static, afterwhich I could hear the sound effects, only they were very faint, and much too quiet in comparison to the other sound features.

At this point, although all the capacitors discharged properly, I figured I would try replacing the 2x 2uf caps, with a couple of 2.2uf /50v that I had on hand, and thankfully this did the trick. Sounds great.

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My next point for attention are these mini-flippers on the lower PF. I gather from some research that these are in fact unobtanium.

To that end, I was wondering what people are using as replacements? Mine seems to have 60s 2" EM flipper bats . (don't get me wrong, I love my 60s EMs, but clearly this is wrong).

I was also wondering if anyone had tried to get any 3D printed? It occurred to me that although 3D printing would not look quite as smooth, it could be an option to realistically get transparent RED mini flippers that would look pretty close to the original.

(I'm game to try to build a model, but if anyone has any exact dimentions and scans to work from, that might get me started).

Thank you-

Managed to get my Elektra working 100%. Finally, struggled through PF issues (some light touch-ups), lamp issues, sound issues, lower playfield kickout, grounds.. .. finally there though. DISCLAIMER! Didn't have enough warm LEDs on hand, so the BG was a bit brighter and blue-er than I would normally do..

I have no idea how this game should normally play. Seems to be pretty rare out there, so I'd appreciate any advice on set up.

Partiucarly, I wonder about the upper left flipper, is there a way to utilize passing the ball under it? I've found that I can sometimes nudge the ball from the upper kickout, to go under that flipper and drain on the more safe left-most ramp?

Not the best Gameplay video, but these can be elusive, I just wanted a multiball for demonstration.

Thank you-

Cool, thanks for the tip!

You have entered the radiant dimension!. Very nice looking original boards.

Goes sometimes without saying, but def get that battery off and neutralize any potential leakage.. sometimes it isn't visible on the front, but it can leech through the leads on the back .

Yeah, it would have to be pretty dirty to require that... but as far as I have seen, you'd have to remove just about everything on the PF. The plexi does clean up pretty nicely with a bit of soap and a damp rag. Unless it is chipped, and I were replacing it, I can't imagine removing it for a cleaning.

Vec-tor helped me above with:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/elektra-owners-club-fans-also-welcome/page/16#post-5810861