Boards being in the cabinet rather than the head is not a mistake it is fantastic.
Unclip two clips and a cable lift the board set out and straight to your workbench. Fantastic maintain ability.
yes, BUT, you cant work on the boards when they are out of the machine and not connected to the harness or powered up for fault testing, plus the fact JJP cant build machines until the software is complete because boards are in base of cabinet versus headbox, and as stated beore, just doing a software update will mean lockbar off, glass off, playfield up, lockbox undone, then u have to reach into a confined dark space to try n plug the USB in, and try n look at the LCD screen which will be covered by the lifted playfield while u try n do the software updates...
This seems to be ALOT more negatives/drawbacks than positives compared to computer boards in the backbox like Stern....
What benefits do u get from the boards being in the base of the cabinet ?? and, I noticed they have 2 x computer cooling fans cause the boards are enclosed in a hotbox with little or no cooling features. We all know what happened to Pinball2000 when the cheap $20 cooling fans failed after time. Why not design out the need for cooling fans like Stern has done by placing boards into the headbox for easy access and greater cooling without the need for cooling fans.
If someone can give me a few valid reasons for placing the boards in the base of the cabinet, I would like to hear those ideas caise I havent been able to come up with any.
JJP could have built a thousand machines by now, and added boards/software to the headbox if boards were located here, but board location to base of cabinet alone have caused production to not even start. I cant see honestly how in hindsight this wasnt a big mistake.
But I am open minded if anyone can raise some relative benefits of boards in bases of pinball cabinets......
p.s - glad to hear the JJP factory is safe n sound.
