Creature lives!



I fired it up for the first time ever - and it worked! This to me is a victory - I've rebuilt lots and lots of boards, and restored my fair share of games, but this is the first time I've ever plunked a board set in a game and had it work 100% right off the bat. Usually, I find that I damaged a trace and didn't repair it, or didn't replace some part that was bad, etc. This time, it just worked.

Hopefully, that's a good sign going forward :) The DMD is brand new but looks dim due to the flash.

The game came to me in parts. This is the most dangerous type of project IMO because you never know what is good and what is bad when you put it back together, and you don't know whether something was always bad, or whether you caused the problem with something you did.

I did learn an important thing, should you ever restore a CFTBL - if the flipper opto boards are not plugged in, the projector will NOT work. The way the 12 volts is fed to the projector does some daisy chaining, and without the opto boards, the voltage won't make it. And you'll spend the day tracing the wires trying to figure out why it isn't working :) Don't ask me how I know this!

The car speakers sound GOOD.  You can see the tweeters through the speaker grilles, since they are blue, and the speaker cones are grey, so they are kinda visible, too, but they sound good.




A good quality 6.5 inch sub rumbles the cab with the volume turned all the way up.


The original speaker panel waits, should I desire to return to original.