Yes - love it and Brett Davis of XPin is great. If I had a machine with a missing or unrepairable board XPin would be the first one I'd turn to.

viperrwk

I appreciate everyone's support. My XPin line of products has taken off so strongly, my manufacturing house is having a hard time keeping up. That's a good problem to have. Right now all my Power Supplies are back in stock and I have the shipments to the distributors enroute so they should be updated shortly.

Keep watching for more announcements though. Things are definitely happening!

Don't get left behind!

Really!? Good to know. I have been following their stuff a little lately and waiting for positive and negative reviews. I appreciate your input and experience. It would be great if others would post their thoughts and findings.

Crash,

Wasn't aware of it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I want to get my hands on it. Send me your contact info and via [email protected]. I will pull one out of stock and retest, then send it out to you.

All of the products are tested before they leave the CM so I need to check this out.

Brett

Here's a crazy question...

Is there a way to make a power (GI on my space shuttle comes from power board..) or driver board supply enough constant voltage/amps to the GI circuit so that there is not flicker when you fire up the flippers and other solenoids? Always have wondered if anyone would try to "correct" this in new board designs, or if it's even possible.

Right now I am at my day job so I do not have access to any of my schematics or documentation. Let me give you a call tonight and we will work through it. I have this supply in my Rollergames and Game Show (I always use my own games for testing before releasing) and haven't heard this issue. I will test and work them to see what maybe happening.

Brett

P.S. Send me a number to my [email protected] so that I can call you.

The challenge with what your asking is that GI is 5.7Vac (ac voltage) which you get through a multi-tap transformer. Since solenoids are powered through rectified AC with a single big cap, when you fire the, when you fire your solenoids, if the cap is old, it will drag the entire transformer down causing all of the other non regulated voltages to drop slightly. The best thing you could do is replace that big cap on your solenoid bridge.

I looked into converting the GI into DC but that it was an expensive solution. Most GI requires ~20A @ 5.7Vac. The heat generated with the conversion was too great. Most didn't like it.

Thanks for the answer, that made perfect sense.

I may just give it a shot. I recently replaced the bridge rectifiers on my STTNG and put a LED kit in, and it seemed like it was worse after that. Did NOT replace the caps even though it was suggested by some people.

How about the X-pin displays? I'am gonna need new displays down the road for High Speed and theres a few companies making these LED displays. Anyone recommend X-pin or other makers for alphanumeric displays, thanks.

Jeff, where are you at in PHX? This is where XPin is made. I live in Gilbert.

Brett

I love the look of the XPin products and they seem to work great. Brett is also very good with making time for customer support if there are any problems so if you are on the fence about it rest assured, XPins products are the real deal!

I know Brett personally, he is a great guy. Deal with confidence.

That's got to be more support headache than it's worth....