I'd found a new compact williams-bally unit at a reasonable price should be here in a couple days oughtta suffice. might have to play with high current low ohm resistors or a different coil if the flipper power is much unbalanced.
I'd also kinda goofed getting a left side unit, but mirror reassembling it wont be too difficult.
someone somewhere around here had called these machines dumb or stupid, well YES THEY ARE..
simplistic, unsophisticated, but they sure can slam a ball around with brutal force! it might be for putting in a 3.1 amp breaker, a much larger bridge rectifier, and two main power transistors in parallel in for the playfield? stuff I had just kicking around here in old computer and other power supplies. I'd never played a sentinel machine before so I cant really KNOW whether what I'd done has made this machine more energetic, its just a possible guess about that.
gotta love a machine that has so little to ever go wrong, and is usually pretty easily fixed.
the left ball-out drain can be TOO MEAN, the ball would hit the wood rail, stop cold and drop, every time!
popped in a 2-1/2" bounce spring there at about a 5-6 degree angle (3/8 from wall at upper, 3/4 at lower, about 3/8 above the bottom of the left flipout wire and 1/2" below the top of the left slingshot) lets the ball bounce back outta there maybe 30% of the time, I think it adds to the gameplay's adrenaline to have a -chance- for the ball to bounce out and stay in play (I'd sure include a photo here if I could figure out how to attach one!). it looks like it grew there belongs there with the thin wedge of plywood painted black, notched for 2 radio control servo blocks that are the endposts for the bounce spring. theres still 2" wide at the bottom from the backside of the slingshot, where the ball still drains 2/3 the time anyway. is it a "cheat"?.. after playing about two weeks now, last night a friend got the highest score I've seen here so far ever, was 113,800, lots of skill and luck both! these sentinels will roll over back to zero at 200,000 points, I cant imagine that happening in the 3 ball game but will still ask if its a cheat, while at the same time tell about how much more adrenaline FUN it is with the chance of a bounce-out from the left side ball drain. Jonnyfri, you might like this tidbit, the bouncer mounts with two very small screw holes in the side wood, not the playfield, so if-when it's removed, you wouldnt much notice it was ever there.