Unless you really are concerned about a blackout not interrupting your game, there's really no reason to put a UPS on a pinball machine.

A good quality surge protector power strip should be all you need.

Also, make sure you turn the power strip OFF when you're not playing games.

When operated commercially, these games were usually plugged directly into power, and turned off via breakers at the panel box. Hardly the cleanest electrical environment around.

Just imaging what that load center was doing when the guy came in, in the morning, and started flipping all the breakers on, for 100+ games in a large arcade.

Unless you really are concerned about a blackout not interrupting your game, there's really no reason to put a UPS on a pinball machine.

A good quality surge protector power strip should be all you need.

Also, make sure you turn the power strip OFF when you're not playing games.

When operated commercially, these games were usually plugged directly into power, and turned off via breakers at the panel box. Hardly the cleanest electrical environment around.

Just imaging what that load center was doing when the guy came in, in the morning, and started flipping all the breakers on, for 100+ games in a large arcade.

Unless you really are concerned about a blackout not interrupting your game, there's really no reason to put a UPS on a pinball machine.

A good quality surge protector power strip should be all you need.

Also, make sure you turn the power strip OFF when you're not playing games.

When operated commercially, these games were usually plugged directly into power, and turned off via breakers at the panel box. Hardly the cleanest electrical environment around.

Just imaging what that load center was doing when the guy came in, in the morning, and started flipping all the breakers on, for 100+ games in a large arcade.

Unless you really are concerned about a blackout not interrupting your game, there's really no reason to put a UPS on a pinball machine.

A good quality surge protector power strip should be all you need.

Also, make sure you turn the power strip OFF when you're not playing games.

When operated commercially, these games were usually plugged directly into power, and turned off via breakers at the panel box. Hardly the cleanest electrical environment around.

Just imaging what that load center was doing when the guy came in, in the morning, and started flipping all the breakers on, for 100+ games in a large arcade.

Well, ok ...

now there are four copies of Post #5 ... that's just plain weird.

It's another layer of disconnect when you're not using the game, which is another layer of protection in case of a lightning strike.

(The best protection from lightning is a physical disconnect of your conductors)

When your game is powered on, there is no battery drain.

When your game is powered off (by whatever means), there is battery drain.

Note that european re-imports have a different MOV, since their voltage is higher than ours.

about that MAME cabinet ... if it has a hard drive, you need that thing on a battery backup.

Brownouts are the #1 killer of hard drives.

(Same would count for any videogame based on a hard drive, like NFL Blitz, etc)