I'm thinking about getting one of the orange ball lifter units to design into the 4 game cabinet that I'm planning out, and the question of how I'm going to power the thing up came about.

The lifters only seem to be readily available from US vendors at the moment, and so are supplied ready to plug into a 110v outlet. Now over in the UK, we have a 230v mains voltage, so I'm going to need a transformer of some kind.

Now it's not going to be difficult to add a 230v to 110v transformer into the cabinet design, but I was wondering if the ball lifter motor actually runs directly from the 110v supply, or is there already a transformer in the unit that converts it down to a lower voltage, that I might already have available in the cabinet.