MCR Power Board - Quick Question

Pinball Wizard

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Starting a project that I will discuss in more detail soon, but I have a quick question. MCR reset circuit: I know what is supposed to trigger it, but is this a circuit that should start logic 0 and then switch to logic 1 after some amount of time passes by (milliseconds)?
 
See the troubleshooting guide (link) section Additional Features: Reset. Detects 2 bad AC cycles, output goes to 1 after 40ms, held for a minimum of 75ms, with a transistor to drive it harder.

In my opinion it's a stupid-ass way to do the feature. Just get one of the power-controller ICs from Maxim and it'll do a much better job.
 
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