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

2.1.2 Limited Edition

The Limited Edition has a run of 250 games planned. The cabinet has an option of coming in either red or black.

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

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  Front of I/O Board

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  Back of I/O Board

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  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

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  Power Supply Board (Pictured with rectifier, not used in production Alien)

3.2 MPU

• Where to get motherboard

3.3 Power Supply

• Modifications

3.5 Lamp Matrix

The Lamp ID is based on the following sequence [IO Board #-Chain, Lamp ID]. Translated, 1-A1 would be IO Board #1, Chain A, Lamp 1. One thing to note is that these lamps are serially addressed, which means that if one LED fails or is missing, all following LED's in that chain will not work correctly (locked on, off, flashing, etc.)

Alien Lamp Matrix

Lamp ID	Description
1-A1	GI Left Orbit Top
1-A2	GI Left Orbit Top Center
1-A3	GI Middle Orbit Center
1-A4	GI Subway
1-A5	GI Left Pop
1-A6	GI Lane Guide Left
1-A7	Top Lane 1
1-A8	GI Lane Guide Middle
1-A9	Top Lane 2
1-A10	GI Right Orbit Top
1-A11	Left Jet 1
1-A12	Left Jet 2
1-A13	Left Jet 3
1-A14	Left Jet 4
1-A15	Left Jet 5
1-A16	Right Jet 1
1-A17	Right Jet 2
1-A18	Right Jet 3
1-A19	Right Jet 4
1-A20	Right Jet 5
1-B1	GI Right Pop 1
1-B2	GI Right Pop 2
1-B3	GI Right Orbit Left
1-B4	Middle Orbit Upper Right
1-B5	GI Scoop Left
1-B6	GI Left Ramp
1-B7	GI Middle Orbit Low Right
1-B8	GI Middle Orbit Middle Right
1-B9	Super
1-B10	Standup 1
1-B11	Standup 2
1-B12	Centre Target Symbol
1-B13	Left Xenomorph Target
1-B14	Right Xenomorph Target
1-B15	Bottom Jet 1
1-B16	Bottom Jet 2
1-B17	Bottom Jet 3
1-B18	Bottom Jet 4
1-B19	Bottom Jet 5
1-B20	GI Left Xenomorph
2-A1	GI Left Revive
2-A2	Weyland
2-A3	Mother
2-A4	Left Eject Symbol
2-A5	Vent 1
2-A6	Left Upper Flipper Lower
2-A7	Left Upper Flipper Higher
2-A8	GI Saucer
2-A9	Left Orbit Arrow
2-A10	Left Orbit Symbol
2-A11	Left Ramp Arrow
2-A12	Left Ramp Drop
2-A13	Bonus 4x
2-A14	Bonus 2x
2-A15	Bonus 6x
2-A16	Double Scoring
2-A17	Vent 2
2-A18	APC 1
2-A19	APC 2
2-A20	APC 3
2-A21	Yutani
2-B1	GI Bank Target Top
2-B2	GI Bank Target Middle
2-B3	GI Bank Target Bottom
2-B4	Side Loop Symbol
2-B5	Standup 5
2-B6	GI Weapon 5
2-B7	Right Orbit Symbol
2-B8	Upper Right Flipper High
2-B9	Right Orbit Arrow
2-B10	Right Upper Flipper Low
2-B11	Right Lane Symbol
2-B12	Standup 4
2-B13	Right Ramp Arrow
2-B14	Right Ramp Drop
2-C1	Host
2-C2	Extra Ball
2-C3	Lock Lit
2-C4	Recharge
2-C5	Recharge Target
2-C6	Centre Ramp Arrow
2-C7	GI Recharge
2-C8	GI Left Orbit Lower
2-C9	GI Left Eject
2-C10	Vent 3
2-C11	Airlock
2-C12	Left Loop Symbol
2-C13	Centre Target Arrow
2-C14	Standup 3
2-C15	GI Weapon Target 4
2-C16	Chestburster Target
2-C17	GI Right Orbit Lower
2-C18	GI Right Flipper Top
3-A1	All Out War
3-A2	Save Newt MB
3-A3	Ambush MB
3-A4	Sentry Guns MB
3-A5	Hypersleep MB
3-A6	Destruct
3-A7	Left Mode 4 (Tunnel Hunt)
3-A8	Left Mode 3 (Find Jonesy)
3-A9	Left Mode 2 (Acid Burn)
3-A10	Left Mode 1 (Derelict Ship)
3-A11	Loader Battle
3-A12	Right Mode 4 (Queens Nest)
3-A13	Right Mode 3 (Bug Hunt)
3-A14	Right Mode 2 (APC)
3-A15	Right Mode 1 (Combat Drop)
3-A16	GI Left Flipper Low
3-A17	Scream
3-A18	GI Left Flipper High
3-A19	Revive Right
3-A20	Revive Left
3-B1	GI Revive Right
3-B2	GI Revive Left
3-B3	GI Right Flipper Low
3-B4	Again
3-B5	GI Right Flipper High
3-B6	Special
3-B7	GI Right Sling Bottom
3-B8	GI Right Sling Top
3-B9	GI Left Sling Bottom
3-B10	GI Left Sling Top
C-X6	Top PF. Lights (Not Used)
C-X7	Backbox Lighting
C-X8	Cab. Side Lights
C-OUT1	Start Button
C-OUT2	BuyIn Button (Extra Ball)
C-OUT3	Launch Buttom (Launch Ball)
C-OUT4	Aux Launch Button
C-OUT5	Coin Door

5 Game Specific Problems & Fixes

5.1 Full Throttle

5.11 Wheel Motor replacement

7 References

• Archived version of the Heighway Pinball company website
• Official Heighway Pinball YouTube channel