We have been working on these for a while. We showed them at Texas Pinball Festival, but most people did not know what they are. We will have a bit more of a display at Allentown. We should have these ready to sell in 30 to 60 days.

Lighted Magnetic Hinge Covers. Nobody has ever heard of these before, so we wanted a name that describes what they are. The heart of this mod is a relay that we have been working on for a while, a photo sensor power switch. We have many mods that work off of 12 volts. A lot of these mods either need more power then the game can supply, or can cause some electrical interference (EL Panels). To use this relay, just plug into the service outlet, turn on your game, BOOM, power to your mod.

We will be selling this relay separate, but we have a little more work to do on it. This relay will only work on pinball machines that have a service outlet and a light.

These are prototypes, and some of what are in these pictures won't be available to sell until we get some permission, but we will have something for that title. Example, "Theatre of Magic", we won't be doing that title for a while if we do, but we will have a tiger saw and chains with a lock.

I bet Chuck that I could do a full installation in under 2 minutes. I had Chuck record installation, full install in only 91 seconds. I do not suggest doing a install with power on, but I wanted to show the photo sensor. Towards the end of the video, I am moving my hand back and forth over the relay, this is blocking the light to turn on and off the mod. I turned the game off at the end, to demonstrate the mod turning off when you turn on the game.

91 second installation video:

21 second video of a wall of 7 games with Lighted Magnetic Hinge Covers

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Thanks. I won't be able to do the words "Fish Tales" until I work out something with Rick, but we are doing 4 hanging fish.

We are going to make a selection of the main titles for the shows and for distributors. On our website (which will start getting major attention in a few weeks) we are going to set it up so you can pick your silhouette, light color and manufacture and have them custom made. We will be making these for Stern, Bally/Williams, Sega, Data East, Jersey Jack, American Pinball and Spooky. A lot of silhouettes will work for a few games, like the chains and lock (Theatre of Magic, Houdini, Capcon Magic) or a soccer ball. As we build up our silhouettes, their will be more choices. We have 150 silhouettes done now. Because of the relay, very flexible, they will work on any game. Some titles we feel we will be able to do, some we will not be able to. Example is "Dialed In", we contacted Jersey Jack to see if their was a way they would let us do their title, and they said no, but we are getting a silhouette of the character that holds the lighting bolts.

We are planning on doing a big focus on this mod, because we have made it so versatile, and it is an area of a pinball machine that has not received any love. We have talked with Cointaker, and they want to carry a selection. We are going to push this mod hard, to deter others from borrowing our idea.

We have 8 light colors, and we finally got a good orange color.

We will have a price point of $99.99 for the pair and everything to hook up. If we do licensed titles, those would be $134.99. I would like to hook up with Rick on his titles, but that would take a while, and we will have other options for those games.

Dan

OLDPINGUY, Art, thanks for the thumbs up. It means a lot to me to get a thumbs up from someone with your lighting background and knowledge.

Thanks. We finally figured out the issues we had with doing lighted speaker covers for Stern DMD games, should start having those in 60 to 90 days. I remember you were asking about those months ago.

Thanks for the feedback. If anyone gives me feedback on what they would want, we will do that, or move it higher on our project list. When you give a specific request, like the Spooky ghost, that makes it easy, and we can do those quicker. just a game request will take longer. The hard parts have been done with this mod, and to do additional silhouettes, that is the easy part. The nice thing about the relay, is that it works on all games and because the relay does not hook up to any of the pinball electronics, no warranty or "node board" issues.

On a title like that, we will probably do the title until we get told to stop. We did the title and I have a picture of it on the game, but I can not find it for some reason, we also did the crew.

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No, sorry, we will have 30 or so on display and a video. We hoped to have some to sell, but some of our materials took 3 weeks longer to get then expected and we got them on Monday. Our displays are original prototypes, our production models will be a bit nicer then our displays.

We will have these in Atlanta this weekend.

Nearly all of these titles are limited editions. PM if interested. If you want different colors, add $10.

These are all yellow.

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Aerosmith is orange, it is hard to take a picture of orange for some reason. The orange color is just like the fruit orange.

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Hard to take a picture of a light sources. Here is a better picture of Iron Man and Lord of the rings.

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I do not have White Water, The Getaway, Fishtales or Theatre of Magic for sale. All of the other titles shown I have for sale, all limited editions. I will have most of these titles at Atlanta show this weekend, and New England show. It is hard to take pictures of the colors, the colors are very vibrant.

The Twilight Zone - blue
Judge Dredd - blue
Star Trek: The Next Generation - blue
The Shadow - green
Creature from the black lagoon - green

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Yes, you can send to paypal, $99.99 plus $8 shipping, please put note in description and PM me here when payment sent. On Totan, we are staying away from Rick's copyright-en and trademarked games at this time, we are sending him some samples. We may do "Arabian Nights" and we also have a lamp silhouette that we are working on. We are trying on getting a silhouette for most games.

We pushed hard to get a small selection for Atlanta show, to get feedback on what people want to see

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We are getting yours together, I have not forgotten. I will be sending you an extra relay for your Monster Bash mod.

Dan

Thank you.

Good news, bad news. Yes, we will ship overseas. Scared Stiff is one of the titles we don't expect to do the title without Rick's licensing. But, what we are doing for that game will be a pair of red eyes, which we think will look better then the title on that game. It will take us about a month to get the eyes done.

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If anyone has feedback on what titles or silhouettes you would like to see, please suggest here. If figure this product will be changing, we will probably loose some titles as we go, but plan to add a lot of silhouettes. An example of a possible idea is on Houdini. On Houdini we may do the title, but we should have done in a couple of weeks, chains with a lock and key. After taking a close look at the side of the game, guages and/or the valve may look very good on that game.

Suggestions please. Main limitation is just one light color per hinge.

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Yes to both. we have 2 ghost busters, the title and the logo. Shipping is a bit more overseas. It will be about 2 weeks before we can ship, but send me a PM with which GhostBusters, that you are in Australia and your Paypal email address.

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I am not 100% sure. The mod runs off of 12V dc. The reason we supply a wall wart is for 2 reasons, most games have a service outlet, and we can be 100% sure of the voltage output of a wall wart. The plug for mod and relay is a standard 5.5 x 2.1mm round connector, which is on nearly all wall warts.

Stern games go have 12V from the molex connector, we have had customers use a molex plug to a standard 5.5 x 2.1mm round connector as in the below picture.

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A lot of great questions, thank you.

Dan, is that the "greenest" you can get on TS? It looks more like aqua, but maybe that's my monitor.
It is probably my camera. Because the panel is a light source, many times the color does not come out true. I find the best way for me to get the truest color is focus the camera away from the panel. I am very happy with all of the color, the green is a true good quality green. Hope to have The Shadow panels listed on here on Sunday or Monday.

Do you guys do an Aurich TS speaker panel??
Yes, plus his panel does not have any black masking on the back.

I also think T2 would look better in red.
A few games we were torn on what color. Aerosmoth and Metallica are both good examples, those could be done in many colors.

I also think T2 would look better in red. I have your ultimate speaker panel for my TAF and I LOVE it!
Thank you very much. We are slowly making some upgrades to the panel. One of the upgrades we should have in place after New England is an upgrade to the wiring. I always hated the wires every place. The photo sensor relay that we made for this mode was designed to work on a lot of our projects. The lighted speaker panels is one of the projects our new relay will be used for.

Any issue with plugging both into the service outlet using an adapter?
Most of our games have power strips in them from the service outlet, LOL. On the lighted speaker panels, they can use nearly 2 amps at 12V and that is the size of the power supply that we supplied with those panels, so you don't want to power anything else from that power supply. Another upgrade we are doing on lighted speaker panels after New England is going with a 3 amp power supply and a LED controller that can handle more power.

The inverter for the EL panels run off of 12 volt, but of all of the products we make, the one that we recommend the most being run off of the AC/DC power supply (wall wart) is the EL Panels. I know their are a few other EL pinball products on the market, and they run off of the 12 volt from the game, it is very easy to do, but for a few reasons, the wall wart is better.

We will custom make Lighted Magnetic Hinge Colors in different colors for $10 more, but if you are getting 3, I will do in red for you for T2. You can send a payment to me at:

https://www.paypal.me/DKuschill

3 kits, plus $8 shipping, would be $307.97

Please list the entire game name and not the abbreviation on the order, and put Terminator 2 in red. After payment is sent, then PM me here. It will take us about a week to make that panel for you.

This picture shows the colors a bit better, but in person they are all a bit more vivid then in this picture.

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We have 20 Stern panels listed on Pinside now. Sunday or Monday we will list 10 Bally/Williams panels. Before Pintastic, June 28th we are trying to get 15 more panels listed here, 9 more Stern and 6 more. We will have a selection of all those panels at Pintasitc.

All of the panels we have done so far have been done with black vinyl with a matte finish, they match the black on the games very well.

We are also doing experiments on other color vinyl to match Limited Edition games. The first game color we are experimenting with is the brown color of Houdini. Below is a silhouette we are doing for Houdini of chains and lock, will work for other magic themed games also.

We are focusing on Stern and Bally/Williams games now. We have the layout for all Data East and Sega games done, and we will be moving to those titles also, should be between 20 to 60 days before you start seeing those titles. Also doing Jersey Jack but probably not Spooky, Spooky does not have a service outlet.

If you want a hinge in a color other then what we normally make a hinge, we will do a custom panel for you, but it needs to be one of the 8 in the above chart and it will be a $10 additional charge.

We have a few different projects coming using this process. We are working on getting a data base collected, and want to get 100's of silhouettes in our data base. Please give any feedback on things you would like to see on your hinges as well as color feedback for vinyl and EL Panels (request for pink has come up a few times).

Suggestions please.

Dan

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