Its animated and is always a cause for discussion when it starts going. But the to top it, is the wonderful topper that the LE gets, easily the best topper in pinball and makes the LE really stand out. Its fun but tough huge humour in the call outs of the game especially from the martians, and strobe multi ball is the coolest thing on the planet!.

The game play is fast and frenetic Brian Eddy the designer of the game, made three pinballs and all of the smash hits, on this game he has a fan layout but with some really tough shots, then a set of modes that you have to line up together to get big points. I was pleased to find that CGC had taken a classic and made it a modern classic, a huge fantastic LCD colour screen that has beautifully re-rendered and updated animations, matched with uprated speakers that are also lit up to match the colours on the game. To some this is an old game, to me its new, having not played Attack from Mars much at all.

The game is beautifully made with bright green armour and superb build quality. I got one of these, Limited Edition, from Pinball Heaven (I also have MMr) it arrived just before Christmas as promised. WPC-S CPU board A-17551 From £ 197.94 Select options.WPC 95 CPU Board replacement From £ 219.94 Select options.Ultimate bally/stern MPU by Alltek systems £ 200.00 Add to basket.Stern Trough opto pcb (receiver) 520-5174-00 £ 23.25 Add to basket.Stern opto trough pcb 520-5173-00 (emitter) £ 19.38 Add to basket.PinSound No More Reset 5v fix £ 35.95 Add to basket.LED Trough opto board A-17982 £ 21.95 Add to basket.JJP Trough opto emitter PCB 15-100002-00 £ 33.00 Add to basket.Fliptronic flipper controller PCB by PinLED £ 104.50 Add to basket.Flipper opto board assembly A-17316 £ 27.45 Add to basket.DMDLux dot matrix controller PCB by PinSound £ 99.95 Add to basket.Bally rectifier board A-2518-18 £ 71.45 Add to basket.A-15894 flipper opto board £ 54.95 Add to basket.520-5307-00 White LED single lamp board £ 3.96 Add to basket.The transistor in question is Q15 and has been replaced with an IRL540N due to having a higher amp capabilities than the original. Could this cap be causing a ground short if it is failing and cause the transistor to short? The line going to the gate does have a filtering cap between the gate leg and the resistor coming from the signal. I feel the issue is somewhere on the board because I have blown the transistor with the the coil out of circuit. I know its not in the coil as I've connected the side that is not blowing to the one that is blowing and the flipper works fine like this.

I've buzzed out the lines from all three legs of the transistor and I am not finding any shorts and signals go to where they should. This tested good but I replaced it with a new one anyway. The flipper coil has a diode across the lugs. I've a pinball machine that keeps blowing the transistor for the flipper coil.

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