Heighway Pinball Repair

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1 Introduction

Heighway Pinball is based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK.

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

3.5 Power Supply

• Modifications

7 References

• Heighway Pinball company website
• Heighway Pinball Facebook page