Hi, new member of the club! Just brought mine in via freight. Love it so far but have a quick question. When I first fired it up I had no sound and no insert lighting. I hunted around and found a connector loose to fix the sound. I can't seem to find anything to get the inserts to light. Flashers and gi seem fine. Oh yeah, pop bumpers don't light either. I tested all the fuses for continuity. One seemed to fail so I wrapped it in tinfoil to test and still no go. Any thoughts?

Thamks in advance!

Roger on the foil fuse test. An old pin guy taught me that (apparently bad) habit.

I'll read up on that thread. Thanks for the link. Hope I can get it working.

I like it! I might need to redecal my machine. A little faded...

Hey guys. I swapped the power driver board for a new rottendog one and insert lighting all working. So I have a hacked board that could likely be repaired. Anyone want to make a reasonable offer for it?

Next question: anyone have great sound improvement tips? Rudy's callouts are awesome but muffled and scratchy. I imagine that's pretty standard, so I'm hoping you have ideas to improve it. Thanks

Huh. Music seems ok. But it's easier to "get" music. It doesn't have to be as clear to make out words. I'll listen more closely tomorrow.

Voice just seems a little am radio

Where did you connect in the sub?

Where did you connect the sub in?

Awesome! Thanks!

Hi Funhouse club! Relatively new owner here. I have leveled my fh and it seems to have a little problem but I wanted to run it by you.

What is the ideal behavior when you hit the right orbit and it comes down to the upper left flipper and you DONT hit it with that flipper? Is it supposed to go to the right or left flipper? Right now mine goes sdtm. I looked closely and the metal guide rail seems to be bent out a bit right where it ends above the upper flipper so it kicks the ball to the right. I'll get a pic when I'm home again, but does that sound right?

Hey guys, I'm curious about my funhouse, it may have been modified so I need some feedback about normal behavior. When you shoot the right gangway (orbit) and it's coming out the left above the left flipper, if you don't hit it with that flipper, what is it supposed to do? Mine goes sdtm. I noticed someone appears to have bent the little flap right above the upper left flipper out a bit. So I'm not sure what it's supposed to do anymore. Go across and hit right flipper? Left? Sdtm is normal behavior? If you're new to my game it can catch you off guard and it's annoying.

Here it is. Just looks kicked out to me...

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Correct. Like a light beam. These switches are normally closed (beam connects the sender and receiver). Then when a ball passes through them it briefly interrupts the beam and trades open. You can also open the switch by putting a finger in between the sender and receiver. If it is bad, it could be disconnected or either sender or receiver can be bad.

Hey guys,
I keep having my rottendog funhouse board burn out fuse 101. The previous owner put a rottendog board in so I don't know much about it. He had it over fused (per the original funhouse manual, supposed to be 2.5A) he had 3A but it's even blowing the 3A after running a bit. Not immediately. Any thoughts to get me started? Bad coil?

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Thanks for the ideas guys. I was thinking flipper coil going out too. I'll check ohms. Appreciate it.

I would love to see pictures of where people have the pad. Mine is at the left end of the wire form and my ball will routinely bounce back and end up spinning down into the inlane rather than the steps plunger. I'll take a pic when I get home

Hey funhouse fans,
Rudy is having a hard time! Recently, when I turn it on it powers off and then restarts again. Often doesn't even make it therough the self tests before rebooting itself.

Is this the dreaded Williams reboot glitch I've heard about? It has a rottendog power board in it, so I'm not sure what to think. Any ideas?

Ok. Thanks. Fretting averted. I'll read up. I knew there was a resource available.

You'll have to tell me how it goes. I have a playfield in storage for it but am very intimidated.

Dang. Like me removing all ghosting leds only to find I had one socket wired backward....

Can you compress only the text parts and keep schematics at original resolution?

Fun story! What did you pay for it this time?

New to the club (again). I bought a kind of basket case funhouse from a friend. Over payed, of course.

First big problem is the screen won’t come on at all. I checked all the fuses and reseated all connections. Which brings me to problem number two...

One of the big connectors (I can’t remember right now 12 pin? On the power driver board left side?) with all the yellow wires looping back on themselves ) was all burnt and crumbles in my hand when I tried to reseat it. I’m hoping that is also my first problem. Any chance?

Anyone have a good tutorial for rebuilding connectors that have the wires looping to multiple pins?

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Thanks for the link!

Yeah. The eyelids looked weird. I’ll work on that when i get the display working for sure.

Thanks for all the advice guys! I can’t wait to get Rudy up and working. Right now I can’t really even troubleshoot due to my completely blank display. I uploaded a video. I’m hoping something will catch someone’s eye and I can get a hint where to start. It clearly boots and plays. I think it’s alerting me that the time isn’t set. I think the batteries on the board were very old, but thankfully not leaking.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the advice. Where do I check the hv? I know I have 5v on one connector. The ribbon cable I’ve reconnected a few times to check. Seems ok. There’s one other connector (with two wires, maybe white?) that I get no reading. That’s suspect but I’m not sure what it does. Maybe that’s the hv?

Will do. Dumb question from me though, does it all pertain to funhouse? Is the display on funhouse a dmd technically or are they the same, basically?

Ok. Great reading. Thanks! I’m gonna get an xpin. But hopefully I can forgive it our work the original display

I searched the thread a bit, but can anyone point me to a video tutorial for disassembling and repairing Rudy?

Nvm. Found it. Google

Yes. Thanks a lot though. Can’t wait to tear into him! Do you think his eyelid problem will be easy to discover out of the machine? I can’t run through switch tests and stuff yet with my display out. And xpin is taking a while to ship.

Ok! Got Rudy working. The xpin screen did the trick too.

So now I’m just missing the lampshade! Anyone have a spare? Or if anyone upgraded, do you have the original I can buy? I haven’t been able to find one anywhere. Also, the place it mounts on the plastic ramp broke off. Any ideas on an alternative mounting? And is it just GI or controlled?

Is there a pinsound mix with original sounds but much improved quality?

So I’m doing a light restoration on my recently acquired funhouse. Any thoughts on this playfield discoloration above the rollovers? It’s in heavy traffic areas not covered by Mylar. I scrubbed it pretty good with novus and it won’t come up. I’m worried I’m going to take up more paint around that planking. Thoughts?

On a related note, anyone have a generally decent funhouse playfield or a non Mirco repro they’d like to sell? Asking for a friend..

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I’ll call you if I need any parts! Has anyone done the Mirco funhouse swap? How did it go?

I did a Mirco Gorgar and it was a literal nightmare. Holes were cut WAY off, etc. Not the dimples, but mechanism cutouts through the playfield were way off. It was tough.

Didn’t cpr do a run of funhouse a while back? Anyone have one laying around?

I just got my fully working beater for $3300. Probably going to put about $1000 into it. But no new playfield. Just going to touch it up.

I will bear that in mind! But it won’t be 3300..

Anyone have a spare lampshade? Like an original (if you got the upgraded one) or an unused upgraded one? I’d like to replace my missing one.

Does anyone have access to the original source tapes for Rudy’s voice callouts? I wonder if they could be used or the old ones cleaned up for pinsound usage. I would love to have Rudy more loud and clear.

That’s cool. Is it wired to those flashers?

I wonder if you could mod the mod and split the signal for that one led? And put one on either side?

Are these legs non-standard? They seem to have a weird crimp to them. Pulls them in so tight that even with metal leg protectors it still puckers the radcals. Any thoughts?

pinballinreno did you do radcals?

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I wonder if an updated rom could add more randomness to all players? I’m the only pinball person in my family so I never play Slick!

There’s a post for the left shooter lane on the right side. Does everyone have a sleeve on that? Mine is tripping up my skillshot over there every time. I got new rubbers and can’t remember if had one on there before.

Thanks all!

I wish I had done this instead of a new Mirco.

Agreed. My skill shots haven’t been the same at all.

One thing I did on my Gorgar was to slide everything onto a sheet of cardboard (from a pinball box!) and pin them down there in the exact place they were on the playfield. Then when I moved to the new pf it was simple. Won’t work if everything needs a cleaning though. But that’s true in a direct swap too.

They are easier to apply, no question. They look awesome, arguably better than standard decals. My big problem with doing new decals is you spend a ton of effort and time sanding and filling, etc and then one bump with a belt buckle and all your work is ruined.
Just my opinion though.

Are you selling that? I could use one

I would definitely pay to get a high quality update to the original soundtrack. And maybe some expansion. But it would have to be original voice. I can’t handle the new voices.

I had to physically bend mine with a vise and pliers to get it to not mess with my radcals.

If I just bought a new one, what would it order that would be better?

Very helpful! Thanks for that. So in the link you posted, you used the pre-dcs wiring scheme at the very bottom of that page? Does it help with Rudy clarity?

I have a pinsound. Do I need the shaker from pinsound or will any shaker do?

Watch for pooling. I had some around the post in front of Rudy. Some chipping under when I took the post up. It all ironed down and is invisible under the post now. But I will never buy another Mirco

If you get one from Mirco let it cure a year. I just put mine in and have pooling and chipping. I couldn’t wait, and didn’t know I had to.

Dude so sorry about that. Happened to me too. I was able to iron it out before chipping g and then i creatively covered the areas with protectors. Mirco is the worst.