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#106 Centaur re-examined. - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago2 hr 39 min listenBy George
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Does it ever go away? Dave talks about John Day taking in Dave’s customers Centaur to fix 2 remaining issues. What’s up Doc? Dave gets emails, George gets crickets. Pascal. John Jolly. Road trips....

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Highlights

  • The Centaur's ball serve mechanism and multiball now work flawlessly after John Day's repairs
  • The Centaur's trunk-up failure is caused by a reset circuit voltage problem where 12V is actually reading 15V
  • George is relocating from New Hampshire to Virginia in the Free State area (Fairfax County region)
  • George has 12 pinball machines in storage in New Hampshire that he will move to Virginia
  • A customer's grandfather owned Paragon The Park arcade at Nantasket Beach, Hull, MA
  • Dr. Dave received an electric shock of approximately 45 volts from a coil while working on a High Speed pinball machine
  • John Jolly purchased a Firepower 2 (Williams System 7) for $300 that has a defective 40-pin MPU connector causing resistors to overheat and fall off the board
  • Pascal (FAST board manufacturer) experienced customer service challenges and threatened to stop responding to customers making complaints in all caps
  • A FAST Pascal board shipped with a backwards diode in the extra ball light circuit

Notable quotes

“The orbs multiball works like it should 100% of the time, not 99% of the time. The only last one he's having trouble with is that every so often you turn the game on, and it goes dun, dun, dun, dun, like that, and then doesn't trunk up all the way.”
Dr. Dave
“I think the reset circuit fails to hold the 6802 chip in reset during power-up. Very confident that this can be solved by adding an MCP121-450E-T0 between the 5-volt ground and the MCU reset signal.”
John Day (quoted by Dr. Dave)
“I felt like, like, through my head and through my body, this electric shock. It was a coil voltage...45 volts. Still enough to get your attention. Get attention. Get me awake.”
Dr. Dave
“We are pinball moving, you'll like this, to an area in Virginia called the Free State...We're moving to what I would call horsey country.”
George
“Is this a pinball machine or a fireplace? You could if you wanted to. You could cook a sandwich on it to cook your toast.”
Dr. Dave
“A tie beats the dealer. So you get the multiplier for that.”
Dr. Dave
“I'm not giving it away because good luck finding one of any of them, never mind this one.”
Dr. Dave
“You're 40 minutes away from me. I go, have at it. Five hours. And you've got to transport two of them. And mine works well. Right. So, you know. Have fun.”
Dr. Dave

Entities

  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Blackjack· game
  • Bow and Arrow· game
  • Centaur· game
  • Firepower 2· game
  • High Speed· game
  • Royal Flush· game
  • Skateball· game
  • Solar Ride· game
  • Sorcerer· game
  • Winchester Mystery House· game
  • The Classic Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Dr. Dave· person
  • George· person
  • Greg· person
  • John Day· person
  • John Jolly· person
  • Pascal· person
  • Stefan· person
  • Paragon The Park· venue

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