Great - all SMD = virtually disposable.........no thanks.

My thoughts exactly love their pinsound boards

Looks like it has no more reset built in.

why not a rtc controller and ditch the battery all together, you already migrated to nvram.

the battery is only to keep the clock time, which from what i can tell they moved to a different style clock circuit?

the only thing that plagues this boards are battery damage and someone hitting the switch matrix with 50v coil voltage

i don't see a crazy need for these, and being smd , not easy repair for some, unless they plan on selling for $50 hard pass for me.

If anyone's interested, the new PinSound replacement Bally Williams boards launched today:

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/pinsound-launches-new-bally-williams-boards

Would be a lot better if it wasn't built using all surface mounted parts. Makes hobby repairs much more difficult.

Great that there is a new product option to market though, gives people more options.

Surface mount parts is way cheaper to manufacture (automated insertion and soldering). It's a trade-off therefore between ease of repair and cost of manufacturing

Personally, I prefer a relatively cheap option (which is the case here, less then 200 dollars). Furthermore, failure rate on non power type circuit board is super low anyway if designed properly