First post here we go. A few pics of my alien poker machine. My dad bought it in the 90's and it ran great for years. then sat for years. about 5 years ago we started working on it and replaced the 40 pin connector a couple coils a bracket and some random transistor that controlled an Ace hole.I also put in a remote battery box. the machine ran well for a couple of years then got packed away for a move. after a couple years in teh garage its in the house now and with fresh batteries it powered up straight into play mode XD.
But...there are some issues . coils randomly firing during play, ghost scoring and such. Im told its cause my power supply is failing so I have plans to rebuild the power supply soon. and I already have new resistors to install for the lamp matrix. and zener diodes to dim the display just a hare to make it last longer. wel i feel like im rambling here is a quick video i just shot and uploaded to you tube. See you all soon

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sorry cant post a link yet. I will post a link to the video in a couple of days after my noob-nes to the site wears off.lol

about the power supply I have found my parts from the previous order, in the pic, and just ordered new caps for parts numbers c7 c11 and c15.

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I had a lot of fun playing it as a kid. Im excited to start work again on this sucker again

Well I finished up the fireproofing and bulletproofing of the power supply board and next I will replace all of the sockets . Im still having the issues of coils firing randomly during a game and ghost scoring. In fact if i tap on a chip it will lock up the game , or make a coil fire which leads me to belive the sockets need to be replaced. They are not scanbee so i thought i might get away with them for a bit. I think they are molex brand.
Question about the sockets do i replace every socket on the board or just the flipper and rom sockets?Ill upload a pic with the sockets in question circled . Also could the 40 pin connector be suspect as well? I did replace that 8 or so years ago and back then (8 years ago) it had completly brought the game back to life .

So my question is does every socket on the boards need to be replaced besides the rom sockets? the small black sockets and large red sockets that i placed in the red outlines.

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Thanks for the quick reply Grizleyrig. Im ordering 15 of the IC socket 20 Pin SIP that should be enough to do them all. I think i can get them swapped out without too much trouble. I also have the resistors to replace the burnt lamp matrix ones. piece by piece i guess it will all come together.

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