46" / 30" / 19" widebody cabinet

[shilmover]

Ordered the parts... Less than $3 for each switch

Got all the parts yesteday. Will be prototyping this weekend.

[shilmover]

Oh, and I just got a second SSD (60GB) drive yesterday (I love Black Friday).

Moved all Pinball stuff to 2nd drive (OS is on the other 60GB SSD). need to fix my HyperDMD program as it expects to be on the C:\

[lettuce]

Wolfsoft, do you do discounts for hyperspin forum members??

Another question, i have one of these Pac-Drive PCB what actually can i do with this??

If i wanted to have feedback for my flipper buttons what would i need from Wolfsoft's site, just

2x Siemens Solonids 12DC

1x Opto Kit for Virtual Pinballs

would i need a relay at all or a seprate PSU, i currently have a 750watt PC PSU in the cab?

[wolfsoft]

Hi Lettuce,

I can offer you a discount of 5%

As far as I know it works with pac-drive too.

First we used the pac-drive, but there is a problem with the default on of all ports at startup.

I have a few with default off, so it will work.

But after short testing, we found out 16 ports are not enough and we changed to the ledwiz (32ports).

There are different ways to get feedback of the flipperfingers.

The easiest and cheapest way is to use:

a) optokit

2 siemens solonoids

c) you can use your power supply (but I recoment to use separate fuses for the cirquits of the solonoids)

Here you have "hardwired" the forcefeedback. Every time you press a flipperbutton, the solonoid gives you a feedback.

In this config you don't need a pacdrive or ledwiz

Wolfsoft, do you do discounts for hyperspin forum members??

Another question, i have one of these Pac-Drive PCB what actually can i do with this??

If i wanted to have feedback for my flipper buttons what would i need from Wolfsoft's site, just

2x Siemens Solonids 12DC

1x Opto Kit for Virtual Pinballs

would i need a relay at all or a seprate PSU, i currently have a 750watt PC PSU in the cab?

[wolfsoft]

The other way is to wait until Manofwar releases the software to make different rumble effects possible.

Here you can make different effects

a) you can make work the buttons at the front of the pinball light as a real pinball

add flasher to the top of the backglass

c) add more solonoids to make effects for slingshots, bumpers...

d) make shaker, replayknocker to work

[shilmover]

The other way is to wait until Manofwar releases the software to make different rumble effects possible.

Here you can make different effects

a) you can make work the buttons at the front of the pinball light as a real pinball

add flasher to the top of the backglass

c) add more solonoids to make effects for slingshots, bumpers...

d) make shaker, replayknocker to work

Waiting patiently (well, not so patiently ) for Manofwar's code...

[njay]

when does the waiting stop

[chriz99]

check out my new dmd animation (during hyperpin browsing)

1AEG_l9Y7U4

thanks to gstav

[Guest gstav]

Turned out great Chriz!

[shilmover]

Nice! Is that an animated GIF?

[chriz99]

yes, it's an animated gif (loaded via active desktop)

[pixelmagic]

yes, it's an animated gif (loaded via active desktop)

Can you explain a bit more on how that is done ? (and maybe share the .gif with us ? )

[chriz99]

via xp active desktop you can place a background image (like an animated gif) whereever you want (screen1, 2 or 3).

gstav did this masterpiece for me, maybe he is willing to share.

[pixelmagic]

via xp active desktop you can place a background image (like an animated gif) whereever you want (screen1, 2 or 3).

gstav did this masterpiece for me, maybe he is willing to share.

The egg has been layed, i get it what you mean by active desktop now. How dumb could i be

Then off cource the question to gstav, are you willing to share the file (or even better, the source, sow we can adapt it our own needs )

Looks great !

[shilmover]

Finally go the last part (aside from shaker motor and the software)... The heatsinks.

I will post pictures... cost me $9.99 for 4 of them, shipped.

[shilmover]

Ok. I have had the last week off and here are some of the progress I have made.

The HeatSink (with LED):

The topper primed:

The topper painted. I attached a curved edge to the front to make it look a bit better:

One of the LEDs mounted:

A couple more:

All three:

The Resistor board:

I wired up the topper to have a connector so that I can remove the backbox or topper with only having to disconnect one connector. No blue wire, so Yellow=Blue, White=+12v:

Completely wired up:

Installing it in the cab today and re-wiring the lights for the buttons.

[shilmover]

Chris|Ext2k,

Which buttons do you have that change color/get lit for each game?

- Start

- Launch

- Extra Ball

- Flippers

Which brings up the question, can the color of the flipper buttons be controlled?

Any other?

[chriz99]

nice work barry, love your wiring.

I have 4 transparent flipperbuttons which can change the color (to match the original pinball button color).

start/exit/extraball/pause/howtoplay/launchball can be set on or off or rom controlled.

[shilmover]

Thanks! Part of my is glad that this code is coming out as the wiring in the cab sucks (I quickly got it running for the Pinball Show last June and it looks like Ass!

So you have 4 flipper buttons?

Another question... In what situations would you have Exit/Paus/Howtoplay NOT lit up? Wondering if I have enough inputs to have all the lights connected. Also, do you have RGB LEDs for all of those? or just the flippers/start/launch/extraball?

B

[chriz99]

this is my ledwiz config... you can see the full specification of each output:

[shilmover]

Perfect!

thank you.

I figured I would need 2 LED-Wiz devices (which I have)...

Maybe I should rewire mine so that it is wired the same way.

That way, I should be able to just use your config files, no?

[chriz99]

Perfect! thank you. I figured I would need 2 LED-Wiz devices (which I have)...

2 ledwiz should be also possible.

...That way, I should be able to just use your config files, no?

exactly

[shilmover]

i will re-wire these today.

I have RGB lights for the buttons. I may just drive them off the 2nd LED-Wiz to get RGB.

2 more requests...

- What LED colors are you using for the regular buttons? (Just wondering)

- Can you post a snippet of the .INI file that is used by the new software? So that I can figure out how easy it is to convert? I may just write a piece of software that would convert the files for you. depending on your config and how the .ini files are formatted.

[chriz99]

I use colored buttons with 12V white standard leds for start/exit/howtoplay/pause/extraball/launchball

klaus (wolfsoft) wrote a little excel-script for easier ledwiz-config. we will release it with the code:

[shilmover]

Nice!

That seems pretty straight forward.

Does that then output the .ini file?