Strange Williams Phoenix on CL

recycledgamer

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I've been emailing this guy on CL about his Williams Phoenix when he sent me a bunch of photos of the inside of the machine. At first the backbox looked normal - I see the CPU board, driver board and power board, but in the cabinet is all this extra stuff that looks like hand wire-wrapped perfboards and banks of relays. There are also a lot of non-standard wires running between the backbox, cabinet and playfield, many with crimp-on butt connectors.

I posted the pics he sent me here:
http://recycledgamer.com/phoenix/

Sorry some of the pics are blurry. That's how I got them.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Could it be a prototype of some kind? The big chips on the driver board look like EPROMS.

Guy says his dad got it from a burger joint that closed in the 1980s.

Chuck
 
I have to say that it's one of the strangest things I've seen in a long time.

Haven't got a clue what's going on in there, nor do I have the slightest idea what those boards are made to do.

If the price was right, and the playfield/cabinet were in good shape, I'd snag it just to find out what was done to it.

-Hans
 
I have to say that it's one of the strangest things I've seen in a long time.

Haven't got a clue what's going on in there, nor do I have the slightest idea what those boards are made to do.

If the price was right, and the playfield/cabinet were in good shape, I'd snag it just to find out what was done to it.

-Hans

The guy has already told me "these things are going for $1800 when they work" so I'm not expecting a good price. :)

The pin is not working, according to the owner. Made him an offer based on the non-working condition and bad photos in the ad. That's when he sent me the pictures of the inside. I tried explaining that his pin contains non-standard boards now he thinks I am lying to get the pin cheaper. Basically accused me to trying to cheat him so I can resell the pin for $1800 (his words). I told him I would send him the numbers of a couple of pin repair guys who would corroborate what I said about the non-standard guts, but he STILL says I am a scammer.

I'm just going to let this one go...
 
That is odd, like the power was modified with other parts, not sure what is the deal with some kind of rectifier board there,, walk away from that deal, agree with Hans, I would love to see just what they did there to get that going at some point...
 
I wonder if all those relays are wired in to drive coils? So what would have been the drive signals from the driver board is now driving those relay things which would isolate the transistors and keep them from blowing up?

Just a guess.
 
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