Looking for help with my after market strobe module. It is the Pinpoint Bally Flash Gordon AS-2518-62 Strobe Board. I've had it a number of years, and it has always caused issues so severe I have left it unplugged. I have Alteck boards throughout the pin, the only original being the sound board. The game either immediately goes into an alarm mode [lots of alert beeping, sounding like a European emergency vehicle, and no bootup] or it sort of starts, but then quickly goes into the the alarm mode and stops working. I tried to trouble shoot with the folks at Altek and Pinpoint, but that didn't yield any positive results. But since then, I did discover something.
So, I was chatting with some pinheads and we get on the subject of the FG strobe and someone suggested I check some connectors to the Squawk and Talk board. I recalled I had two boards for sound, and they said I was old and failing to recall correctly.
So, I check it out and I do have two boards and looking into it discovered that I have a very low production number [apparently #34, AKA: old] and that the first 100 FGs or so produced used the leftover boards from Xenon. I also discovered that the schematic is different for games with the old soundboard set. When you look at the plug diagram on the two schematics, it's different. I'm beginning to think I've stumbled onto something - However, the plug in my game is consistent with the schematic for the Squawk and Talk rather than the schematic for the two board sound set.
So, I'm completely confused.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. I've attached chunks of the two schematics. The one with the A13 Strobe Module with the key in position 5 is for the Squawk and Talk, and is how my plug is wired and keyed. [the aftermarket strobe is also set for a key in position 5]. The schematic with the key in position 6 is for the two board set. I have the manual with the Squawk and Talk and that manual also has a schematic for the strobe module. I was working from a download from the Pinball database for FG that was the one supplied with the two board set like I have. Other than the difference I have included in the photos, the only other thing I could see is that there is no diagram/schematic for the strobe module.
I'm suspecting that the strobe may not work with my set up, but thought I'd ask folks who get the engineering aspect of this stuff, because this can be daunting for me. Thanks
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