Re: TECH EM: Is High Tap "Cheating?"

Wasn't the high tap on the transformer for the situation where line
voltage was low in a highly loaded arcade environment? So cannot the
same be true for households to a limited extent? I’ve read
(somewhere) that the 120V (on either side of your 240V service) can
range between 110V and 125V as delivered to your house, and averages
117V.

My measured wall plug voltage is a consistent 123.5V. This probably
due to the fact that I have a dedicated Edison transformer in my yard
and a relatively new house with lots of circuits. My pins are on
dedicated circuits (almost) so the flippers, pops and slings rip on
normal tap.

On the other hand, if your delivered voltage is on the low side of
117V and your running ovens, refrigerators, and other crap on the same
line as your EM’s, the voltage delivered to the game’s transformer may
closer to 110V with the resultant performance drop in coils. Hi tap
was made for this situation.

Doug D.




On Feb 7, 8:04 pm, NJ Add-A-Ball <MB1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If a GTB game plays "better" when HTed, is it "cheating?"

By better I mean livelier.

Have tastes changed?

My question concerns games that are mechanically correct; and not
games that are HTed to overcome mechanical defects.

Mike

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