PinHeck System

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1 Introduction

This is the first boardset system used by Spooky Pinball. Designed by Ben Heck. Based on a micro controller, everything other than the switching power supply is contained on board.

2 Games

Title Date of Release Model # Production Count Current Code Version Notes
America's Most Haunted 2014 AMH01 150 22

3 Technical Info

3.1 Boardset

The boardset is contained within a single multi-function CPU board and a switching power supply.

3.2 MPU

America's Most Haunted MPU


The pinHeck system uses a single board design for the CPU, coil, light, switch, sound, and video controls. The CPU is based on a PIC32 architecture, running at 80Mhz. The CPU controls game logic and everything except audio and video. All Audio and Video (A/V) is controlled using a Parallex Propeller processor (Prop for short) running at 104Mhz. The Prop is connected to the CPU using an SPI based communication. This allows the CPU to say "Play sound 3", "Display Video 7", etc. This was offloaded from the CPU to allow critical timing for the game code to not interfere with keeping smooth and clear video and audio.

3.3 Power Supply

3.4 Lamp Matrix

3.5 Switch Matrix

3.6 Diagnostics & Bookeeping

4 Problems & Solutions

5 Game Specific Problems & Fixes

6 Repair Logs

6.1 Jump Ramp

Jump ramp fix

7 References