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Title: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 07, 2012, 05:34:53 PM
With thanks to many people involved in this project, We are pleased to release these Australian designed
 and manufactured 50-60hz Conversion Board made
for late model  US delivered Stern Pinball games. 
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Pintoxicated on November 07, 2012, 05:52:28 PM
Well done mate.  Very competitively priced as well.

Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: pinsanity on November 07, 2012, 06:44:27 PM
Awesome stuff.  ^^^
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Pintoxicated on November 07, 2012, 07:10:53 PM
Should Stern still bother producing these country specific machines or do you think they will try to come up with some other way of trying to stop machines being bought and sold internationally?

With the Aussie dollar still very strong, boards like the one Greg is selling is going to open up new options for us to source late model Sterns.  Good stuff.
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: MartyJ on November 07, 2012, 11:25:03 PM
http://www.rtbb.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=3255&osCsid=6f21763571650de580af12825013a7c7
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Caveoftreasures on November 08, 2012, 12:52:31 AM
thankyou.

question - how did rtbb copy/unlock the software so it could make them in Australia ?  !@#
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Pop Bumper Pete on November 08, 2012, 07:49:48 AM
thankyou.

question - how did rtbb copy/unlock the software so it could make them in Australia ?  !@#
That is the $200 (ouch) question
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: pinnies4me on November 08, 2012, 08:09:59 AM
Great stuff for Stern fans!
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 08, 2012, 10:45:48 AM
thankyou.

question - how did rtbb copy/unlock the software so it could make them in Australia ?  !@#
That is the $200 (ouch) question

Pete you always have the option of buying AU delivered machines  and then this board is not needed

these only come into play for the guys buying (US delivered machines) direct out of the US and importing them
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: wonder on November 08, 2012, 10:51:26 AM
Well done Greg,they look superb compared the the old ones.Good to see the price has even come down as well. ^^^
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 08, 2012, 11:13:02 AM
Well done Greg,they look superb compared the the old ones.Good to see the price has even come down as well. ^^^

thanks Crackle
I think your the only one that noticed that these new boards lowered the price  by well over $100
compared to others selling the older style conversion boards.
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 08, 2012, 11:48:59 AM
Should Stern still bother producing these country specific machines or do you think they will try to come up with some other way of trying to stop machines being bought and sold internationally?

With the Aussie dollar still very strong, boards like the one Greg is selling is going to open up new options for us to source late model Sterns.  Good stuff.

thanks mate



Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Extra Ball on November 08, 2012, 01:20:35 PM
RTBB is 100 bucks cheaper than the other seller with a version of this.
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Pinfan on November 08, 2012, 09:33:59 PM
http://www.rtbb.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=3255&osCsid=6f21763571650de580af12825013a7c7


Thanks Marty !
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: arcadoz on November 08, 2012, 09:53:37 PM
The board appears to be an oscillator, injecting a 60Hz signal into the frequency detection cct.
It's a peripheral cct. meaning that as long as the software recieves a signal from the cct, it's happy.
It will be interesting to see how Stern is going to get around this, as any detection cct. can be circumnavigated eventually, even to the point of locating the signal on the MPU board.
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: RatBag on November 08, 2012, 10:55:47 PM
By the look of the pic the addon pcb looks very tiny and also looks to be mounted on the back of the IO board.......very nice
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 08, 2012, 11:52:26 PM
By the look of the pic the addon pcb looks very tiny and also looks to be mounted on the back of the IO board.......very nice

correct  Mr. Ratty
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: elkor-alish on November 09, 2012, 06:51:43 PM
The board appears to be an oscillator, injecting a 60Hz signal into the frequency detection cct.
It's a peripheral cct. meaning that as long as the software recieves a signal from the cct, it's happy.
It will be interesting to see how Stern is going to get around this, as any detection cct. can be circumnavigated eventually, even to the point of locating the signal on the MPU board.

I don't think Stern will bother with trying to get around it.
The distributors complained about the imports and Stern did something about it.
Not their fault if someone then gets around their fix.
Title: Re: 50-60hz Conversion Board
Post by: Greg on November 10, 2012, 01:08:44 PM
Thread has been cleaned up.