My tz came with three new rottendog boards installed (motherboard, flipper board, clock board), with the originals boxed up as spares. These are all about 6 months old. The seller told me that the original boards were ok, the motherboard looked a little cooked around j121, but the flipper board looked fine. I know the two part clock boards give trouble, get far too hot etc, so I never want to use the original
About a month into ownership, the right main flipper died mid game today. The upper right flipper was ok. I contrast this to 15 years of addams family ownership where nothing more serious has gone wrong than a fuse or plastic link.
I was told a couple of weeks ago by a pinball repair guy that the rottendog boards were rubbish and I ought to remove all of them and put the originals back in, and to get a better clock board. He advised to sell them now on eBay , before they broke down. As the rottendog boards all worked fine, I just left alone as I assumed that new diodes and power transistors were no bad thing
When I looked online today there seems to be widespread praise for altek boards but very mixed reviews on Rottendog.
I checked that the right flipper opto switch was working, it is. I have never repaired a board before, so I just replaced the rottendog with the original Bally board
My pinball is working properly again now. Hence I would just like to make folk aware that concerns about rottendog boards may be justified. I will see if it can be repaired under warranty .....
About a month into ownership, the right main flipper died mid game today. The upper right flipper was ok. I contrast this to 15 years of addams family ownership where nothing more serious has gone wrong than a fuse or plastic link.
I was told a couple of weeks ago by a pinball repair guy that the rottendog boards were rubbish and I ought to remove all of them and put the originals back in, and to get a better clock board. He advised to sell them now on eBay , before they broke down. As the rottendog boards all worked fine, I just left alone as I assumed that new diodes and power transistors were no bad thing
When I looked online today there seems to be widespread praise for altek boards but very mixed reviews on Rottendog.
I checked that the right flipper opto switch was working, it is. I have never repaired a board before, so I just replaced the rottendog with the original Bally board
My pinball is working properly again now. Hence I would just like to make folk aware that concerns about rottendog boards may be justified. I will see if it can be repaired under warranty .....
