Heighway Pinball Repair
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1 Introduction
Heighway Pinball was based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK. Only two pinball titles were produced under the Heighway Pinball name: Full Throttle (2015) and Alien (2017). Heighway Pinball also produced a novelty game named Bacardi Cuba Libre (2014).
Heighway Pinball was dissolved and liquidated in early 2018, and many of the company's assets were transferred to / acquired by The Pinball Brothers company.
2 Games
2.1 Full Throttle
Full Throttle started shipping in 2015
2.1.1 Standard Edition
2.1.2 Limited Edition
The Limited Edition has a run of 250 games planned. The cabinet has an option of coming in either red or black.
2.2 Alien
2.2.1 Standard Edition
2.2.2 Limited Edition
3 Technical Info
3.1 Boardset
3.1.1 IO Board (4 per game)
commonly failed mosfet chips
The two big ones next to the row of capacitors are digikey# FQB22P10TMCT-ND
The driver mosfets (above the row of shorted resistors) digikey# 1727-4629-1-ND
Front of I/O Board
Back of I/O Board
There are a row of shorted 0 ohm resistors on each side of the board, this disables some kind of protection circuit that was too sensitive. AFAIK all Alien games were shipped with this modification
Jaw Controller
Tongue Controller
Power Supply Board (Pictured with rectifier, not used in production Alien)
3.2 MPU
- Where to get motherboard
3.3 Power Supply
- Modifications