century dartboard questions

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hey guys i just got a early/mid 80s century dartboard... darthead is beat to hell. I dont see a model number anywhere. Its the one that has a bunch of buttons to select a game in a circular pattern, and theres 4 different digital displays .

Does anybody know of people that still have parts? What are the chances i could steal segments from an arachnid ad6000 and stick em in there and make it work? The only reason i ask is because i have a spare arachnid darthead here...


ironically both brands were made in my area back in the day, so mabye some parts interchange but i doubt it lol.. ill post some pics. Been sitting in a guys garage for over 10 years so its scummy as hell but should clean up good.

Any pointers for this old machine? Ive messed with several arachnid dart machines but ive never had a century one before.
 
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cool ken thanks!

hey do you happen to remember if its normal for the displays to scroll 0-9 when the game isnt bieng played?


this sucks, its hard to play with only 2 darts ( lol) and a rough darthead...
 
I think it's supposed to scroll, but I'm not sure. It was over twenty years ago that we had a couple of those Century Dartes machines on the route.

They do use "Valley" target heads and segments. Arachnid target heads don't fit or work.
 
yeah long as it coins up and works im going with it :D

i honestly couldnt believe it worked when i plugged it in. That doesent happen often with games i get ..

thx ken. If you happen to stumble across a manual someday lmk!
 
If I recall correctly, the only "manual" included with the machine originally was something like a 6 page photocopy with how to assemble the machine and a general wiring diagram.
 
i was afraid of that lol.. so this will be one of those enjoy it till it pukes then smash it kind of machine...
 
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frickin thing just screams 1983 doesent it?
 
I never did like the coin door being on the side of the cabinet. I saw a few operators cram in a 100 watt light bulb in that base light socket. Boy did it get hot!
 
LOL!! yeah i pulled the bulb that was there and put in a cfl. On top its a home flood light holder so mabye some dumb op did the high watt trick on that already LOL..


i took the frt cover off( i like that so you can actuallty dig in the bottom of the cab unlike the old arachnids) and found two darts and some retarted looking mexican duses id from the early 90s heh
 
From what I can remember, the lower front plastic was held in place by a bunch of either Allen head screws or Spanner head screws.
 
There's also manual for the brother to this dart board, the "Royal Dartes":

http://cgi.ebay.com/ROYAL-DARTES-DA...784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255ea02a10

The I.D.E.A. company made these three models of electronic coin-op dart boards:

Century Dartes

Royal Dartes

All-American Darts

I believe they all used the same gameboard, but with a different eprom for the particular model. They used the same crappy power supply which was a knockoff of Arachnid's 5000 series dart board power supply.

The manuals for these machines are very rare now so it would be nice to get them all scanned.
 
if i get one i definastely will.

Just bought an all american darts darthead assy to heres to hoping its the same or close enough to use. looks to me like the plexiglass art would also interchange with my machine as well.

btw- ken the other day the rigged transformer and original transformer on my freedom pin started smoking. Removed the added transformer and figured im totally screwed right? for grins i powered it up a few days ago by some miracle the original windings on the original transformer are outputting 12vac again so its back to working on its own for the time bieng anyways lol.. whatever smoked in there did a temporary weld/winding repair lol
 
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Out of the three models of dartboards that IDEA made (Century, Royal, and All-American), one of the models had a smaller target head than the others. I believe the smaller one used the same sealed switch matrix as the larger ones. So electrically the switch matrix was the same.

If an IDEA brand dart board has the smaller target head, I think you can take a router to the cabinet and route it out to accept the larger (and more common) target head.

I think IDEA used the same power supply assembly in all three models too. It wasn't a very good power supply as it had to rely on good, clean frame ground connections for the +5 volt regulator transistor. There was no over voltage protection. It would be a good idea to convert the power supply assembly to use a common "Peter Chou" screw terminal power supply instead. Attached is a picture of the power supply I found on ebay. I'm using it merely as an example of what an IDEA dart game power supply looks like.
 

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grrreatttt.. got my americal darts head today. way too big, cant even interchange segments, and half of the segments on this replacement head are broken.

time to get a hold of ther seller and see what they can do for me.

Id make this fit in there if i had to, but with all the krappy segments id just be wasting my time.
 
I guess it was the century Dartes that had the smaller target head. Then the All-American Darts is the one that used the same size segments as Valley Cougar.
 
so basically i need to hack the cab because at least cougar parts can still be had. PArts fo rthis darthead are long gone. YAY.. more hackin! matrix is bigger too. I guess i should plug it in and make sure it all works togther before i get to hacking. Ill have to buy an all american darts sorround as well because theres no way ill be able to smoothly cut that plexi.
 
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