Quoted from desertT1:Hey Pecos, here is a kit I heard about from my friend Tommy on This Flippin Podcast. I got an orange set for my Stars and I really like it. It's still a kit, but wasn't a ton of hassle. The first one took a little while, but after that the others went pretty quick using the first as a reference.
https://www.wolffpactech.com/6-digit-display-kits
Quoted from acebathound:Pecos bought an individual Pinitech UNO display kit from me, so I'm hoping he has some input on what he thinks about the Pinitech displays. For someone operating a route like he is and trying to save some $$, the Pinitech led displays should be a welcome addition to the market since they blend so well with plasma displays. You can literally just swap one led display in with a bunch of plasmas (if you only have one bad plasma) and it won't stick out. That way you don't actually have to replace an entire set, unless you're going with a completely different color. You can just replace one failed display and have the game still look nice.
I was disappointed for years with seeing sets advertised as "matching original colors/fonts", when to me, it just wasn't. Of course I also found some sets saying "low current consumption" or "energy efficient", which was also not entirely the case (a few displays with this type of advertising were NOT low current consumption). A big of a pet peeve is when I feel advertising doesn't match the product, so I wanted the Pinitech displays to be DIFFERENT and live up to the hype.
In terms of differences, the Pinitech displays have custom digits which allowed me to match font style, height, color of the original fonts. I was meticulous int he design of the custom digits, and they're literally stamped "PINITECH" and were designed from the ground up to match original fonts/color and offer something unique on the market. The led displays I sell also have a few additional features not found on all aftermarket sets -- brightness control & ability to shift the displays left/right (Pinitech UNO model only). For the slight cost difference, I personally think it's well worth it for the custom digits and additional features, but it just depends what you're looking for. I can't really show the differences through pictures unfortunately.. it's something people would have to see all the aftermarket displays lined up in-person, along with a few plasma displays, to appreciate. Or, they'd have to have already purchased an assortment of aftermarket sets from various vendors to see what makes the Pinitech displays different.
In that sense, any customer feedback on the displays I sell is appreciated! I have a Pinside thread @ https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-pinitech-led-displays-for-classic-bally-stern-plasma-contender where I'm trying to have people post pictures/feedback, so if you bought a set or buy a set and don't mind posting what you think, that would be awesome
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I've used both the Wolfpac and the Pinitech displays and I recommend both products. Just this week acebathound was kind enough to send me some parts for a display that I assembled incorrectly. They aren't hard to assemble at all especially if you do it with the lights on in the room and not just going off of the ambient light of the television while watching a horror movie. Plus I feel that once I install either of these products I don't have to worry about them ever again.
I like Pecos have been operating pins for awhile. I started maybe 4-5 years ago with 4 pins in a board gaming store and then eventually placed 1 (Fish Tales) into my friend's bar/bowling alley...as of last week we are up to 23 pins at that location with mostly modern dmd and lcd stuff, but a few solid state and EM machines as well. Just last night, while I was working on a machine one of the older gentlemen from the bowling league that was going on behind me, came up and asked what I was doing and then how much money I was making off of these machines. He was quite shocked when I told him how much machines cost and how little they make, but again, we do it because we love sharing pinball, and at least for me it lets me expand my collection without having the space at home for all the machines I want.
Pecos keep the thread going as I enjoy it as a fellow operator doing this largely as a hobby and not a business enjoy reading about someone else having similar struggles, plus you are just a good writer. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Cleveland, OH
