I like system 9, behind the scenes it's basically rock solid system 11, but sounds like system 6 and up.

I'm in with Blackout and Black Knight LE.
Love 'em both!

Nice to see this, I have Flash and Gorgar but know very little troubleshooting beyond PinWiki:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_System_3_-_7

Here's the link for 9:

http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_System_9_-_11

Mof- you have to link vid's guide here!!!

As of today... Own...
Flash
Firepower
Blackout
Time Warp
Jungle Lord

Owned in past
Tri zone
Contact
World Cup soccer
Stellar wars
Phoenix
Space shuttle

Love these games!!!!!

Only advice I have is follow Vid's guide!

Socket that damn 5101... If your lucky and find a game that boots up in audit mode this might be only problem and you might get a good deal on game! But still... Follow vid's guide.

Sound issue... Seems for me to always be the 5050. Socket this when you fix as well!

Always have a spare driver board. Really nice to be able to switch out and quickly trouble shoot if that's your issue!

And... Socket, socket, socket

That is all...
Dan

Vid's PDF link

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guides-pdf-version

Vid's Guides

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guides-collected

Have...
Black Knight (System 7)
Hyperball (not really a pin, but a System 7)
Triple Strike (not really a pin, but a System 6)

Had...
Flash (system 3)
Comet (system 9)
Jungle Lord (System 7)
Firepower II (System 7)

Only own a few, worked on many, always wanting more.

Current rotation is a Stellar Wars, Firepower and Black Knight.

-Hans

I would like to mention of the existance of my Bridge Board for these systems.
In Europe directly available from me.
In the USA available from Big Daddy's Enterprises.

Take a look on my website for more information: www.inkochnito.nl
Click on the Bridge Board image.

There also is a tread about my Bridge Board here on Pinside:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bridge-board-available-for-williams-games

Just started a Tech help thread for my Barracora. (Had it working 100% for a couple of days).
Thought maybe one of you might know where to start looking for my lights going out problem.
Here is the link if you think you may be able to help.
Thanks.
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/arrrgh-just-lost-gi-and-controlled-playfield-lights-on-barracora

Nicely done! Glad to see somebody was able to run with the idea, it was still a few spots down my list of projects.
I also have to start being more discreet with product concepts in the future too.

Have a Black Knight and working out a few issues at the present time. Hans has some excellent testing units for Sys. 7 and other WMS pins and I recommend anyone with several systems 3-9 to seriously look at his Siege Craft site. I am interested in joining in as I still have much to learn in the
technical arena.
Bob

I don't have the correct legs, mine were bent out of acceptable limits, but add me to the club!
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I do have a Flash, a Firepower and a Barracora (beautifull!). I like them a lot. I also wrote my own test Eprom's for testing system3-6 boards, system 7 boards and system 9 boards.

Non working Lucky 7 here.

These are my system 7s:

Black Knight - first pin I ever bought, 1998
Time Fantasy - last pin I bought, today!

I'm bursting at the seams, but I couldn't miss a chance to own TF. I really like the sounds, weird art and unusual rules. Plus I have a kind of "psychedelic art" room with black lights. It's a natural fit for that space.

In the past I've owned Sorcerer and Blackout.

I have an Alien Poker. I need to replace the board interconnect header. I have the parts, just need to find the time to tear into it. Currently, it just comes up into audit mode.

Hadn't seen this thread before today, but I'm a fan of these pins.
They were what I grew up with. My line up is

- World Cup
- Phoenix
- Flash
- Time Warp
- Gorgar
- Firepower

all up and running, with

- Laser Ball
- Jungle Lord
- Barracora

to be restored.

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Got this Scorpion at the Louisville Expo last month. trying to source a manual

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SYS6, that's a great line up, Phoenix is an underated game, one of my faves from that era. Would like to add Flash & Phoenix to my williams collection one day.

Here is my system 7 lineup. Great games!

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Thanks, I agree Phoenix is very underrated - it's a really fun game. Also interesting from the development as an early SS effort. The A and B drops are a bit whacky - when you run thru the 2 or 4 roll over then the solenoid fires to raise either the A or B drop irrespective of what state they're in. ie even if the drop is in the up position the raise solenoid still fires. Also the A and B drops don't reset at the start of a game. It's hard to believe there wasn't he capacity within the system to achieve this?

I have a time warp and a broken firepower that I'm trying to bring back from the dead. Looking for anyone with playable boards if they have them. I'm on the edge everyday about buying a Phoenix but I really don't have the room right now

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I love WMS 3-7 games! I like to think i am an expert at everything involving the PCBs in this game.

I can fix / rebuild your firepower boards sans some major battery damage. $200 shipped back for the MPU, driver, sound, speech, and power board all rebuilt, cleaned, and tested. I have a few hundred board rebuilds worth of experience. Right now i am running at about 1 month turn around time. Might vary a little bit each way.

Mof, off the top of my head, I think it's a 320 ohm.

330 ohm 2w on the schematic.. I imagine you would go up to 3-5W

Just logging in. I currently have:
- Comet
- Black Knight
- Jungle Lord (still needs a little TLC)
- Blackout (needs a lot of TLC)
- World Cup Soccer (Needs TLC + parts)

ken

I'm in with contact. Not the most popular game, but I like it!

Bumping an oldie to look for some help on finding the culprit to my left flipper inop issue on my Firepower. I have 40v at the right cabinet switch and zero on the left, both switches are new. I have reflowed all the driverboard edge connectors even though they all looked decent. 40 pin has been redone awhile back as well.

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: tracked the problem to a badly seated plug wire at 3P3 th the power supply. IPDB schematics rule!

Glad you are up and running!
FYI, this site has great info specific to Firepower:
http://www.firepowerpinball.com/

Do blackout and firepower share the same schematics?

Yes, it does, but......
The coils lamps and switches are different offcourse.
The wires goto the same connections on the boards.
You can use the Tech Charts from my website and compare the two games.
I have a schematic pdf, but it uses only numbers to identify the different coils, lamps and switches.
Peter
www.inkochnito.nl

Added over 8 years ago: Sorry, no Tech Charts jet for those games.
I'll do them later.