I vividly remember when you got mult-iball, you would hear the words, "Here it comes!" That is when the PIN went ape crap. Lights flickering everywhere, the spinners on the play-field were spinning, and you were trying to fight them to get your ball to the 3rd flipper so you could shoot it up the ramp for the jackpot. While all this was going on, you were receiving a nice breeze from the fan on top of the display. It was a beautiful touch to give you the feeling that you were in the middle of a Whirlwind. But, you are right Ron, as time went on, PINs became more complex. Especially when it comes to repairing them. As a kid, you don't think of everything that goes on behind the stage, so to speak. You just drop in your 2 tokens for 1 credit or 4 for three credits (depending on how the operator has it set up) and just play. As I mentioned before, I ordered a Wii and the 2 Pinball Hall of Fame games (Gottleib and Williams) But thanks to the good ole' USPS, my package was mis-routed, so who knows when I will receive it.
Evening Joe, out with the wife having a lovely meal in Canterbury, but still watching your video in between the wife talking to me, that's bad of me or is it. 😊
Willy, C'mon now you can't.... Willy You can't... C'mon Now you cant do that!! tell the other people to like and Subscribe while you are there :) haha have a nice evening
Great progress on the mighty Whirlwind. It’s always fun watching the playfield get worked on, and the troubleshooting parts are of great interest and very helpful. This game is gonna rock. Thanks Joe and Ronnie.
Get video, Ronnie love how you tested those transistors. I learned something new on that one. Thank you for showing your little trick on that one. See you on the next video.
I love whirly! I owned one for a year or so. Really fun game, and even has a wizard mode, which is pretty rare for the era. That damn ramp shot from the upper flipper is tough though, especially in multi ball for the jackpot. I loved the topper too, brilliant theme integration with the wind in your face during the storm.
Good stuff, this game can get violent.. mine has sheered of a rod from one of the pop bumper rings, destroyed a 'z' coil mount for the slings and I've had to rebuild all the drop targets because they get hammered. Way ahead of it's time
The triangle things on the display schematics should be part of a buffer IC. DPDT -- The poles refer to separate switch stacks. The "throw" refers to alternating between NC and NO. Many relays are SPDT, but this has 2 stacks of NC, common, and NO connectors.
Any reasons why they call the AUX Solenoid driver board the A/C Selector Relay, because where is the "B" Select Relay? I'm confused why they only have an "A" Side and "C" Side and NOT a "B" side. There must be reasons why the pinball engineers called them an "A" side and "C" side for some reasons
Hello Jo, I've been watching you for quite some time, so much so that I'm starting to restore pin games. I just got my first ss game, it happens to be a williams laser ball. When I power on the game with the driver board plugs off the board, the game does not boot at all no less on the board as well, any ideas of where to start?
The way these work is, they use the same boards for several different games. So yours is a System 6, it's not much like this whirlwind. It's more like a Williams Lucky Seven... if you check out this playlist it'll show you how we worked through one of that era.... th-cam.com/play/PLXBCNT6PGQNqTZkykLmSTuLKvBehXobvR.html&si=36oymhyC0DWGD-VU
This one definitely seems to have a lot of things to overcome. It's a shame on the plasma displays. i was hoping that it was something like a resistor that opened to break the connection. I know that the new displays will be awesome though. Are you going for orange or red (or some other color)?
Are there any machines that go through the switches one at a time telling you which to hit, so none get missed? I have this pin virtually and it's a lot of fun!
27:35 I love the test. Even get sparks!! Fascinating diagnosis in whole video. I hope to learn to read component schematics as well as you. My plan if I need to know how is to follow your examples.
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I vividly remember when you got mult-iball, you would hear the words, "Here it comes!" That is when the PIN went ape crap. Lights flickering everywhere, the spinners on the play-field were spinning, and you were trying to fight them to get your ball to the 3rd flipper so you could shoot it up the ramp for the jackpot. While all this was going on, you were receiving a nice breeze from the fan on top of the display. It was a beautiful touch to give you the feeling that you were in the middle of a Whirlwind. But, you are right Ron, as time went on, PINs became more complex. Especially when it comes to repairing them. As a kid, you don't think of everything that goes on behind the stage, so to speak. You just drop in your 2 tokens for 1 credit or 4 for three credits (depending on how the operator has it set up) and just play. As I mentioned before, I ordered a Wii and the 2 Pinball Hall of Fame games (Gottleib and Williams) But thanks to the good ole' USPS, my package was mis-routed, so who knows when I will receive it.
Evening Joe, out with the wife having a lovely meal in Canterbury, but still watching your video in between the wife talking to me, that's bad of me or is it. 😊
Willy, C'mon now you can't.... Willy You can't... C'mon Now you cant do that!! tell the other people to like and Subscribe while you are there :) haha have a nice evening
Ron, You are the pinball fixing wizard! I would have given up after 5 minutes!
It’s fun tracking it down , wait till you see our Halloween special this year!
“Easy peasy…” Well done Ron!! Thanks for your time and efforts.
Great progress on the mighty Whirlwind. It’s always fun watching the playfield get worked on, and the troubleshooting parts are of great interest and very helpful. This game is gonna rock. Thanks Joe and Ronnie.
Get video, Ronnie love how you tested those transistors. I learned something new on that one. Thank you for showing your little trick on that one. See you on the next video.
I love whirly! I owned one for a year or so. Really fun game, and even has a wizard mode, which is pretty rare for the era. That damn ramp shot from the upper flipper is tough though, especially in multi ball for the jackpot. I loved the topper too, brilliant theme integration with the wind in your face during the storm.
Beautiful pen man ship :) Awesome video Ron, I enjoyed the display troubleshooting.
One of the best if not THE best System 11 games out there. Pat Lawlor is the bomb.
Super cool stuff! Whirlwind is a fun game . Those spinners make for some interesting gameplay. Nice Job Ron and Joe got it looking really nice !
Good stuff, this game can get violent.. mine has sheered of a rod from one of the pop bumper rings, destroyed a 'z' coil mount for the slings and I've had to rebuild all the drop targets because they get hammered. Way ahead of it's time
Love this, more please. Love the debugging skills
Thanks Ron. Catch you on Friday!
I have LEARNED so much from u and Joe. ❤❤
I watched a restored whirlwind being played and it looks and sounds crazy. Cant wait to see you fix this one very vool pin.
Thanks for posting Ron
The triangle things on the display schematics should be part of a buffer IC.
DPDT -- The poles refer to separate switch stacks. The "throw" refers to alternating between NC and NO. Many relays are SPDT, but this has 2 stacks of NC, common, and NO connectors.
Triggering the solenoids is a very satisfying sound through the TH-cams. Don't know if it makes your ears ring being so close with the guts open!
So far, so good.
Hey Ron!!
Hey Jason!
a pinball with a fan, thats cool :3
bad jokes aside, this video was awesome thanks for filming it
Any reasons why they call the AUX Solenoid driver board the A/C Selector Relay, because where is the "B" Select Relay? I'm confused why they only have an "A" Side and "C" Side and NOT a "B" side. There must be reasons why the pinball engineers called them an "A" side and "C" side for some reasons
I sure hope Ron doesn't put fart spray on that fan to take revenge on Joe for stealing his peanuts...
Hello Jo, I've been watching you for quite some time, so much so that I'm starting to restore pin games. I just got my first ss game, it happens to be a williams laser ball. When I power on the game with the driver board plugs off the board, the game does not boot at all no less on the board as well, any ideas of where to start?
The way these work is, they use the same boards for several different games. So yours is a System 6, it's not much like this whirlwind. It's more like a Williams Lucky Seven... if you check out this playlist it'll show you how we worked through one of that era.... th-cam.com/play/PLXBCNT6PGQNqTZkykLmSTuLKvBehXobvR.html&si=36oymhyC0DWGD-VU
This one definitely seems to have a lot of things to overcome. It's a shame on the plasma displays. i was hoping that it was something like a resistor that opened to break the connection.
I know that the new displays will be awesome though. Are you going for orange or red (or some other color)?
Orange
Are there any machines that go through the switches one at a time telling you which to hit, so none get missed? I have this pin virtually and it's a lot of fun!
I don’t believe they have any that do that…
Sounds like someone is playing super Mario world on the SNES.
27:35 I love the test. Even get sparks!! Fascinating diagnosis in whole video. I hope to learn to read component schematics as well as you. My plan if I need to know how is to follow your examples.
spinning playfield portions. lemmee guess, only ONE of the three windy discs propels the other two.
It’s broke! 😂
How did you know?
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