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Flash Gordon: Saviors of the Universe Club

By TheShameGovernor

10 years ago


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#612 5 years ago
Quoted from radium:

Does anyone repair the original Bally strobe boards? Mine never has worked and had the world's largest wasp nest on it when I bought it. Would rather repair the original than get a reproduction board if possible

I have just repaired mine as I prefer an original to a repro.

I replaced the Xenon tube, the two capacitors (22uf/250v) & re-flowed the headers on the board, also replaced the SCR (Q25) on the Aux Lamp driver board & re-flowed the headers. works 100% now, these are the most common faults with these units.

To be noted, the 22uf high voltage caps can be dangerous as they can hold an electrical charge for some time - they need to be discharged for the board to be be safe to work on.

I replaced the xenon tube with a drop in exact replacement that is also used in "Attack from mars" games (which I was able to buy locally here in Australia).

For buying in the US:

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/24-8835

Or the cheaper option which will work too. (this goldmine tube wasn't the cheaper option for me to buy as I am located in Australia).

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G13722

Caps:

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G22471

Or

https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CEA-22uF-250V-RMD

#614 5 years ago

No worries. You can also get the complete flash unit with the tube, holder/reflector as well from goldmine if you need it. All for a dollar!

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G13603

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#622 5 years ago
Quoted from BJM-Maxx:

Can someone confirm for me this is normal behaviour? The two rollovers at the top of the left ramp often do not make distinct sound effects, often just one of them, or sometimes neither. I think it is related to the left spinner cutting of the rollover sounds while spinning. If I test the ball at the top and lock out the spinner they seem to work every time.
Both switches are freshly adjusted and have new capacitors on them.

Just checked mine - yes, the spinner cuts of the sound off while spinning & rolling over them, sometimes you get one of the sounds only with the spinner spinning. It seems this is normal. I hadn't noticed this before. The rollover sound is a good sound too.

6 months later
#668 5 years ago
Quoted from ss-pinball:

This may be a dumb question, but I still need an answer.
What's the story with the Bell Games version of Flash Gordon.
Any idea how many were made?
Any idea if they had a "metal overlay cabinet upgrade" for Flash Gordon?
https://www.tilt.it/bell.htm

Here is a Bell games Flash Gordon project game that was for sale in Australia.

Looks like a Bally FG backglass a Bell games playfield & the transformer/power supply that doesn't look like a Bally. Cabinet isn't a Flash Gordon cabinet.

https://www.facebook.com/pinmem/photos/pcb.1800658910016532/1800657706683319/?type=3&theater

3 weeks later
#683 5 years ago
Quoted from epeabs:

I was having a hard time finding the replacement flipper for the upper playfield (several vendors where out of stock). So I went with the aluminum 2 inch. A tad short at the moment but we'll see how it works.

PBR showing the correct bats in stock?

http://pbresource.com/flippers.html#2in

#C609-SETX Black “Flipper:

7 months later
#1028 4 years ago
Quoted from HPR:

No problem with touchups, i repainted those playfields 80% for EBD 95% for F2K and Fathom 90% of the top portion
Removed inserts, sand them flat, reglue, redo the artwork
Perfect colors match, very precise hand painted artwork, no friends can tell by naked eyes where i repaint them.
I usually also customize artwort a bit as you can see for 8BD ( colors of the balls, no dithering) and F2K ( i prefer to remove wood effect around switches, improve the artwork in my opinion)

Looks like beautiful touch up work - especially on the Fathom, I can't pick anything even with these close up shots.

1 year later
#1746 2 years ago
Quoted from Boise_D:

Any idea where I can buy or find the right camera strobe?

These globes will work if you have the lens/housing & need a globe only. I have used one before.

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PPS-24-8835

In Australia:

https://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/xenon-flashlamp/

1 year later
#2076 1 year ago
Quoted from Quench:

Ultimately it depends on what the ratio of primary windings is to the secondary windings. The "420:10 " on the schematic kinda tells me for (every?) 10 windings on the primary, there is 420 windings on the secondary.

So is there roughly a 42 times difference in resistance reading on the other two pins?

My guesstimate is the xenon tube operates around 5kV (roughly 115V input times 42 = 4.83kV output)

Replace the two electrolytic capacitors if they haven't been already.

I seem to remember these as a possible trigger coil sub? I can't find the thread where these were mentioned for context. I think the pin layout matches from memory. They physically look similar to the trigger coils used in the Pinpoint repro boards - might be a different spec, but my guess is they could be the same units. They have the tubes at Goldmine too, at least they used to.

https://theelectronicgoldmine.com/products/g19760?_pos=4&_sid=309e0d235&_ss=r

2 months later
#2206 1 year ago
Quoted from cooked71:

Here’s what a frustrating weekend of troubleshooting looks like lol……

Time for a trip to Jaycar for a resettable circuit breaker modified like this to use for troubleshooting! Very handy to have a few of these with different values on hand.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bally-ss-wont-finish-game-initialization-after-7-flashes-elektra-1#post-1036790

https://www.jaycar.com.au/5-amp-circuit-breaker/p/SF2254

5 months later
#2459 7 months ago
Quoted from slochar:

Bell post but afaik no one sells them.

Yeah, very hard to find, only used ones, a few here if you are really stuck. This is the right size for that FG plastic.

ebay.com link: itm

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