No, it is hard soldered in from the factory. They fail enough that you often find them in a socket though, worth a look.

I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but they're not from my site...

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Shipping to Canada is selected in both. I can't do anything about shipping costs out of the country, the absolute cheapest shipping I can do is $21 for a small flat rate Priority box. PayPal requires tracking and only allows for Priority or Express Mail as options.

You don't have interest in the additional features that anyPin NVRAM offers, that doesn't mean others won't. It's great to have options in the products we buy, you found one less expensive that suits your needs. That's great.

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Rob Anthony
Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com

To Canada -- Priority is expensive (but not nearly as bad as Australia!). First class mail to Canada and many other countries is now tracked. Zero insurance but nobody gets anything from a postal insurance claim anyways.

For example of Canadian tracking -- see:
https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?strOrigTrackNum=LZ172396442US

If mailing several per week - look into a service such as Endicia. Insurance that *really* pays plus at a fraction of the cost of the insurance from USPS.

I've sent over 10k packages with Endicia. I concur with Ed.

In general, NVRAM is pretty straightforward. The anypin adapters are nice, and while I can understand why some like having the ability to have 1 solution that will truly work on any pin, I've been fine buying the lower cost ones for the games I typically work on. I've also used RAMTRON and SIMTEK NVRAMs, and they work fine.

There are people who will buy from Rob because he has an awesome rep, and makes a great product. There are people that will buy whatever is cheapest.

Either choice is fine.

Rob's passionate about his product. I'd rather see that than see him not care.

Whatever solution you choose - good job getting those alkaline batteries off the board. Even at 40 bucks, the anypin is a cheaper and better solution than cleaning up alkaline damage.

Please read my posts. The prices are from your site. Prices are all in parts, shipping, EXCHANGE in all 3 examples. Take $149.96x1.23 (PayPal rate yesterday)= $184.45.

3x 6264 Denikar - $62.45
3x 6264/6116 anypin - $147.55
3x universal anypin - $184.45

That is what I see in order for me to get nvram. That is what my visa card gets charged. Obviously you have no control over the exchange rate right now but the comparison is consistent on all 3 examples.

I mentioned this chip before, but I think it's worth pointing out again, the M48Z58Y:

http://www.futureelectronics.com/en/technologies/semiconductors/memory/battery-backed-sram/Pages/7503949-M48Z58Y-70PC1.aspx?IM=0

$10 for a safe solution that will last 20+ years. That's cheaper (and easier) than alkaline batteries, so there's really no reason for using remote holders (besides WPC games that use the clock).

Just a warning: The coin op industry does use this chip in a few games. Konami liked it (the Time keeper version). They do fail periodically and they sometimes don't last the amount of time they are supposed to. I would personally avoid any chip with a built in battery unless you welcome the idea of having to change it in the future. It is the batteries that normally fail on these.

The Dallas versions of these chips were supposed to last 10 years. Some, if not many of them didn't. If this is supposed to last 20 years, there is no way they will all make it to that mark. We were changing M48T58Ys out sometimes in the first or second year. Silent Scope was made in 1999, By 2009, I would say every chip had been changed out. Now, we are on the second round on some of these. All chips were bought brand new from authorized distributors.

The $15 or $16 options are a much better choice in my opinion. Well worth the extra $5.00, plug and play and should outlast our lives of collecting. Obviously, as with anything electronic, some will fail to perform through the entire life expectancy the manufacturers provide.

The $29 universal product is a good tool box item. But, I see it hard to swallow the extra cost if you know exactly what game you are buying it for and have no plans to ever take it out (its intended purpose). But to each their own. If $15 is too much, you can build the 6264 version yourself for less. I discussed this in another thread a while back which is where the $15 product stemmed from.

$16 is almost too much for my cheap bastard A$$ so with the help of OSH park, I even make my own 5101 Bally/Stern version for less. But that was before I knew the $16 version existed. Which was the whole point of the original post!

True, the rated (guaranteed) lifetime is 10 years on these. In most applications they meet or exceed this. I have seen many Dallas battery-backed SRAMs that are still working after more than 20 years. The ones that didn't hold up as well are the timekeeper versions (built-in clock, like in the Konami games you mention), which you would not use on a pinball. So worst case they only last 10 years (still a good deal). You're more likely to see 15-20 years out of one (essentially the shelf life of a lithium coin cell, since there is very little current draw from the low-power CMOS SRAM chip inside).
Just presenting this as another viable option. I have these chips on hand for other reasons, so I use them in my pinballs as well. For a few bucks more, the FRAM chip adapters are an excellent deal.

Gotcha. Yes, exchange rates change everything don't they.

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Rob Anthony
Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com

I would never recommend any on board battery solution for any game. I've seen way too many leak, and way too many destroyed boards. There's no doubt in my mind if people saw and had to deal with as many damaged boards as I have, no one would ever put a battery on a board again, no matter how frugal. It's just not worth the risk.

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Rob Anthony
Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com

I don't think anyone has recommended that.... If you are referring to the battery-backed SRAM chips (aka "Dallas"), they consist of a lithium coin cell encased in epoxy. Nothing can leak from them. Proven safe.

I don't usually like to get into these kind of debates since I started taking the live and let live zen approach to pinball, but I'll put the quality of my products up against anyone else who is selling NVRAM adapters. It's not really the type of product that even has the potential for that much variability in quality anyway, assuming that the manufacturer is using original RAMTRON parts. It's an extremely simple product. Infinitely less complicated than a modern automobile. I'm pretty sure we're all using basically the same pins, PCBs, RAM, and solder. I've never seen anyone who's actually a customer of mine complain about the quality of my parts in an open forum or elsewhere and I've got 100+ happy customers over the better part of a decade. Years longer than anyone else who currently sells these adapters. Additionally, there is no RAM adapter on the market today which works with every pinball machine. Gottlieb system 1, for example, is not supported by adapters from any manufacturer. The RAMTRON FM16W08 in use by everyone (as far as I know) making these has a conventional data bus with shared input and output. The 5101 RAM had separate buses for data input and output. The vast majority of pinball machine MPUs simply jumper these buses together, in effect creating a shared bus like a modern RAM would have. That's what makes it easy to drop a modern RAM into the circuit, replacing the original 5101(s). Computing systems which use the data input and output buses of the 5101 separately won't be compatible with "basic" RAM adapters on the market today which are dependant on these buses being tied together.

See the conversion I developed for the Stern MPU-200 MPU to replace two 5101 RAMs with 6116 for more information on this concept.

http://warpzonearcade.com/?p=392

As far the the WPC date/time issue goes, another option is to install an NVRAM adapter and jumper the RAM so it's connected directly to +5V (jumper W6) and continue to use a remote battery pack or memory capacitor to keep the date/time. That way you won't lose the adjustments, high score, etc... if the batteries go dead. You should just need to reset the date/time. Technically you could do that without jumpering the RAM to +5V, but the batteries or cap will be powering the RAM all the time and drain faster.

Lindsey
http://PinForge.com

Looks like the website is down. Anybody got any info on that?

I ordered two and they have arrived, pm me for his email. Yet to connect them. Good service.

Same here. His service was great and he even went through extra mile and included a socket. I haven't installed it yet, but I will update afterwards.

I bought and installed 3 of them, all worked perfect, 2 in Sega's and one in a Stern T3.

I am curious too - the last ones I bought from mouser stiil had the ramtron logo ...

The last reel i got was dated 25th week of 2013. RAMTRON branded.

Cypress logo.

I installed my NVRAM in T2 last night. Everything went well and it functions fine.

Anyone have an email address for http://www.denikar.com/ I need one for my Black Knight.

Try this email: [email protected]

Thanks Gorno!

No problem.

The website referenced by the OP has now been down over 2 weeks.

Pinside has bought all the stock!!!!

So what is going on with these? Was finally gonna order a couple...

I see. Did it work well? What boards did they work with? I wish I ordered back when the site was still around at least...

You can still get the AnyPin DMD+ for $19.99 from www.lockwhenlit.com

Back up for the long weekend. http://denikar.com/
Just ordered some.

Thanks, ordered!

Got mine already even with the long weekend.

Got mine yesterday. Look great. Cannot wait to install them!

I too ordered again after I forgot one last time around.

Ordered, received, installed...work great!

In Ripley's
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More in stock now!

Thanks to acebathound. I bought several of these and they work great. At $13/each I thought it was a killer deal.