Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Cables...cables everywhere.

Sometimes I really annoy myself, or rather become annoyed by my "I can do this myself"-attitude.
Like the light board for instance - why, oh why, didn't I just order this pre-made on the internet?

1) Satan's lightboard. This is a painful reminder why the invention of circuit boards came to be.
What you see on the picture is a gazillion solder points and A QUARTER of the cables needed to complete it. After that, some serious testing and hopefully at least some of them function... Right now I don't remember if I have any light slots to spare, so hopefully they'll all work. I hope.

I thought about both remaking it using a matrix instead or simply design it in CAD and have it manufactured instead. Both things cost money thou, but at the moment I don't really care...
No matter how hard I try, all I see when I look at the board is this...

Source: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/03/ 



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  1. DSoS19 March, 2013 13:48

    I feel your pain on all the wiring. Know that you are not alone!

    Great job on the pinball machine. You have inspired me to attempt a pinball machine. I'm only in research mode at this time and will be for many months to come.

    Good luck and keep up the great work!

    DSoS

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  2. Stu21 March, 2013 21:15

    mosfets for lights? I plan to just run via led driver chips. I guess flashers will run via mosfet.. hmm I had not planned needing to do a mosfet driver board for the leds..

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  3. rasmadrak21 March, 2013 23:51

    LED's should be fine...
    But I'm using bulbs on most of the playfield (6V, but looks alright with 5V) and the flashers require 12-24V to look bright enough. The bulbs barely light up when using regular batteries so they need quite a bit of juice to run.
    The MOSFET's I'm using are sinking current, so I can apply any voltage required on each of the lighting ports.
    In theory, at least. ;)

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