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RETROFIT Classic Bally/Stern DIY Plasma-to-LED Conversion Display Kits

By acebathound

8 years ago


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Post #1 Refurbish kit for Bally/Stern 6 and 7 digit displays. Posted by acebathound (8 years ago)

Post #362 PCB Depopulation image (Stern DA-100 Rev C) Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

Post #363 PCB population image (Stern DA-100 Rev C) Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

Post #364 PCB 5v population image (Stern DA-100 Rev C) Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

Post #395 SMD pads to enable comma Posted by acebathound (7 years ago)

Post #439 PCB depopulation image (Bally AS-2518-15) Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

Post #440 PCB population image (Bally AS-2518-15) Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

Post #444 PCB Depopulated (Stern DA-100) Posted by eh97ac (7 years ago)

Post #446 PCB depopulated (Stern DA-300) Posted by dothedoo (7 years ago)

Post #469 PCB depopulated (Bally AS-2518-21) Posted by Cheddar (7 years ago)


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#283 7 years ago

First effort.

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#286 7 years ago

First seven-digit done, now I just need three more donors. Edit: Digits are all the same brightness, just bad photography.

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#294 7 years ago

If you're lucky you have access to one of these.

http://www.jensentools.com/eraser-lead-bender/g/835

#297 7 years ago

Done!

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#302 7 years ago

You guys must be wizards with the Hakko, it takes me nearly an hour to depopulate the 40 or so components. The bent over leads are the real time suck. The best way I've found so far is to cut the resistors flush with the board, pull the remainder of the leads out the bottom, and then suck the holes clean. The results are clearly worth it to me.

#315 7 years ago

I also had a bad U1 on one of my displays, pretty easy to figure out, and luckily I had a couple.

I used the plasma leads on all of mine,but glancing at the directions for the right-angle headers, it looked pretty confusing. I found it easier to remove the old glass first thing, rather than waiting until after the board was repopulated.

And to answer your question, yes, I'd order more kits as needed, just don't need any right now. I used to have a bunch of Bally 17/35 games, hard to believe I'm down to one.

#373 7 years ago

Am I the only one that used the old plasma leads? I wonder why, it was pretty simple.

#376 7 years ago
Quoted from Drewscruis:

I know the chances of it coming loose are slim, but I preferred to use tin coated solid wire as it is a more solid connection.

Fair enough, I just hope you're wrong.

Quoted from Cheddar:

4 of my boards already had the glass removed. I removed the glass from the 5th for consistency

Well, that makes sense.

#388 7 years ago

I didn't get along well with the foam, and ended up trashing it. I can't tell on Xenon where it would make any difference. Didn't use any 2N5401s, but nice to have a spare or two. I did need one U1, but that's not something I'd expect in this kit.

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#430 7 years ago

If you have any junk boards maybe you could pull the chip off of it.

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#538 7 years ago
Quoted from acebathound:

Anyone that's done "BLUE" in XENON, if you can take a picture with the backglass in the machine that would be awesome.

Native blue digits.

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#560 7 years ago

Couldn't find it right away, so here's a link.

http://www.pinitech.com/retrofit/gallery/

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