The T-Rex in Jurassic Park is a neat toy, but it can be prone to problems. In fact, it can be down right aggravating at times.
My T-Rex stopped eating pinballs. It would bend down, but it could not pick up the pinball. Let’s do some investigation and see how things look:
The capacitor located at C1 on the strobe power supply board for Attack From Mars (AFM) is notorious for failing. Bally/Williams used a 100v non-polar capacitor in a location that has at least 140v across it all the time. Finding a replacement non-polar electrolytic capacitor with a voltage rating of greater than 100v proved difficult. Actually, you can find them, but they are usually so large they will not fit within the strobe’s power supply box. So I decided to take matters into my own hands.
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