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Frank's Battery Board CR2032 for Bally/Stern MPU 100/200 pinballs. BRAND NEW!
$ 8.97
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Frank's Famous Pinball Battery Board CR2032 for Bally/Stern MPU 100/200 pinball machines. Direct Fit Brand New! Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.** LOGIC BOARD NOT INCLUDED **
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Say NO to battery corrosion damage!
This is to replace your leaky rechargeable NiCad battery with a CR2032 lithium coin cell battery. It is a direct fit part and 100% compatible. It preserves your games original functionality. Hundreds of pinball and arcade video game logic boards have been left permanently damaged due to battery acid leakage, don't let battery acid damage destroy your favorite game!
Better than an NVRAM. It is 100% compatible and easier to install. Just remove your old battery holder and solder the CR2032 adapter board in its place.
Battery is included (USA only)
Works with every game listed below, no compatibility issues as is possible with an NVRAM, retains game function as intended by the original engineers.
Battery life expectancy is 5 years, when the battery dies you can grab a new one while grocery shopping.
If the game has to go into long term storage and the batteries are forgotten about you won't have to worry about corrosion damage.
Will retain Real Time Clock functionality on games equipped with the feature.
Smarter than a remote battery pack: the CR2032 battery adapter board is soldered to the board, no battery pack flopping around or potentially losing your settings/high scores when removing the logic board for service.
Includes an additional blocking diode to protect your game in the event the glass diode on your board shorts.
This board will fit the following Bally/Stern MPU 100/200 pinball machines.
NOTE: Some of the games listed weren't manufactured by Bally or Stern, but used their board systems such as Astro's Black Sheep Squadron.
Bally MPU AS-2518-17
301/Bulls Eye
Black Jack
Bow and Arrow
Eight Ball
Evel Knievel
Freedom
Mata Hari
Night Rider
Power Play
Stellar Airship
Strikes and Spares
Bally MPU AS-2518-35
Black Pyramid
BMX
Centaur
Centaur II
Cosmic Flash
Cybernaut
Cybernaut
Dark Rider
Dolly Parton
Eight Ball Deluxe
Eight Ball Deluxe
Eight Ball Deluxe Limited Edition
Elektra
Embryon
Fantasy
Fathom
Fireball Classic
Fireball II
Fireball II
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Fly High
Frontier
Frontier
Future Spa
Genesis
Grand Slam
Harlem Globetrotters On Tour
Hotdoggin'
Kings of Steel
Kiss
Lost World
Medusa
Miss World
Movie Masters
Mr. & Mrs. Pac-Man Pinball
Mystic
Mystic Star
New Wave
Nitro Ground Shaker
Paragon
Pin Ball Pool
Pinball
Playboy
Rapid Fire
Rolling Stones
Saturn 2
Sexy Girl
Silverball Mania
Skateball
Space Hawks
Space Invaders
Space Rider
Speakeasy
Speakeasy 4
Spectrum
Spy Hunter
Star Trek
Super Bowl
Supersonic
The Six Million Dollar Man
Tiger Rag
Vector
Viking
Voltan Escapes Cosmic Doom
World Defender
X's & O's
Xenon
Bally MPU AS-2518-133
Baby Pac-Man
Gold Ball
Grand Slam
Granny and the Gators
Stern M-100 MPU
Cosmic Princess
Dracula
Dracula
Hot Hand
Hot Hand
Lectronamo
Magic
Magic
Memory Lane
Nugent
Pinball
Stars
Stingray
Tour De France
Trident
Trident
Wild Fyre
Stern M-200 MPU
Ali
Big Game
Catacomb
Cheetah
Cue
Dragonfist
Flight 2000
Freefall
Galaxy
Hypnox
Iron Maiden
Lazer Lord
Lightning
Meteor
Nine Ball
Orbitor 1
Quicksilver
Seawitch
Split Second
Star Gazer
Viper
Why use a battery board.
NvRAMs are another option, they aren't always the simplest or the most cost effective. For one, they don't preserve the function of the Real Time Clock (RTC). While it's not a necessary function for most games, I believe that most collectors want their games to function as designed. Also not all RAM chips are socketed making installation more difficult. If the RAM is socketed, it could still have acid corrosion or be worn out and not hold the NvRAM tightly. NvRAMs can and do fail. I understand batteries die, but they are much simpler and cheaper to replace.
Another option is remote battery packs. To me this is the most ridiculous solution. When the board has to come out for service you either have to disconnect it meaning all of your settings are going to be lost, or you'll have to work on the board with a battery pack flopping around. And if you think a remote battery pack is going to save you from acid damage, it won't. It will only buy you time. I have seen several instances where acid has traveled up the wires.
My battery boards fit into the existing battery holder location. The fact that it has to be soldered in is due to the design of the game, not my boards. They stay permanently attached to the board, require no modifications and can easily be removed when someone is willing to pay you 5 grand more for your game if it had the original AA batteries. I take every step I can to make all my boards a complete solution and as easy as possible for you, my customer and it comes with a battery.
One last point I want to make is a lot of people are making claims about the voltage differences between three AA battery packs (4.5v) and the CR2032 coin cells used in my battery boards (3.0v). They are also claiming that the CR2032 won't last as long due to the fact they have less milliamps. I had one guy comment that he prefers to use the AA batteries due to the advantage of having 4.5 volts as opposed to just 3 volts. Advantage? What advantage? Does he think 300 million points are going to be added to his high score every time he turns his game off or something? The fact is both of those claims are wrong. Over 6 years of real world testing has proven 2 things. The first is that 3 volts is adequate to maintain game memory during power down. The second is that the CR2032 coin cell provides enough milliamps to last about 5 years. I think the reason the coin cells outlast the AA alkaline cell is due to the chemical composition differences of the two, although that's purely speculation.