Another silly question/mistake that I have posted about SS problems. zacaj answered my first stupid question. This is my second. I get 12 a year, right?
I want to share another problem that I found when configuring Flash. I went into the setup menu and changed all of the settings to my preferences. I had changed setting #30 to '1' and #31 to '5'. Then the game would never stop spitting out balls. The ball number on the display showed 5 then 6 then 7 then 8. Well you get the idea - no game over. Can't route it and make money like that!
mystic on another thread had the answer:
Quoted from mystic-:
Problem Solved..
Apparently if you update the boards with new Roms it changes the machines set up numbers. The original roms are set to #31 for the ball count and with the updated roms the number changes to #30. after I made that change all was good..
Setting #31 that was the 'number of balls' changes to 'background sound' - '0' for off and '1' for on. Setting #30 that was the 'background sound' changes to 'number of balls (03 or 05).' Got it? Simple, right?
Then I found a chart that showed the changes thanks to @barakandl:
I will be using this chart to reconfigure my settings. I only have to worry about functions #25 and higher. It's problems like this that make me want to pull out my hair!
One more problem to solve. My flash lamps that used to work no longer work. It might get fixed when I change the settings. When I checked the lamps, I found that one of them was burned out. The flash lamps on Flash are #631 - at least that's what I found on my Flash and they look like the original GE lamps. Please correct me if I've got the wrong lamp number. #631 lamps are hard to find. None of the pinball vendors I use carry them. I found them at Amazon and eBay. Bulb Town has them for 50 cents. Here is more information than you will ever need, from Bulb Town, about the flash lamps used in Flash.
"Ba15s Base - 14.0 Volt 0.63 Amp 8.82 Watt G-6 Single Contact (SC) Bayonet (BA15S) Base, 2C-6 Series Filaments, 6.0 MSCP. 1,000 Average Rated Hours, 1.44" (36.56mm) Maximum Overall Length (M.O.L.), 0.75" (19.05mm) Maximum Outer Diameter (M.O.D.), 0.75" (19.05mm) Light Center Length (L.C.L.)."
Surprisingly, I found them at a local electronics store. Even more surprising, the price was reasonable.