A little late, but joining on as a new member. Purchased my brand new AC/DC Premium Vault in January. Something I don't understand is the scoring in this new system. I have 2 other pin, the newest is 1992. I reset the high scores when the machine arrived, simply because I didn't want to see ABC as the top scorer. Anyway, back to AC/DC. Im the top scorer in a specific song. Even though I beat that score when playing on a specific song, it doesn't recognize that and show he as top score for that song. Do I have a setting wrong? Thanks for your help.

Thanks chuckwurt , but what's happening is this. Let's say the Hell's Bells High Score Champ is myself with 16 Million points. I start a game, and select Hell's Bells for the starting song, and keep it Hell's Bells thru the entire game. I finish the game, and my final score is say 32 million points. Shouldn't that 32 mil replace the 16 mil champ?

Thanks chuckwurt ! I love this game. It sure does have a complex set of rules. I will have to pay more attention to the actual song specific shots. It was funny yesterday, because my wife had the High Score for a particular song, and I beat her mercilessly. Basically 5 times the points she had, and when it didn't give me the song's high score champ, I thought I was getting robbed and she thought it was hilarious hahahaha! Thanks for your help sir.

Has anyone created a mod that covers up the lane diverters in front if the train and canon? It just looks unfinished with the coils showing.

Thank you mymalibu

Ok, so I got the drum Mod to cover the coil bybthe cannon, and decided to make this for the one by the train. A little minature album and cover. Not that it shows, but it even has a back side that matches the album.

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I have one, and it flashes.... BUT, there is no little control like you're showing. The wires just go straight from the connector to a quick disconnect right behind the Topper. Works fine.

Ok. I'm sorry, I was mistaken. There is a controller on mine, and it switches the mode and flashing speed. Again, sorry for the mistake.

Count me in as well..... might take 2 also.

Ok, I have a question/issue that has got me stumped. So, when all else fail, ask the folks who'll know. Ok, I have a Premium Vault which I bought NIB in January. The train which has a flashing blue LED annoys me, so I wanted to swap it out with either a yellow or frosted white one. So, I picked up a yellow one, plugged it into the wedge socket....nothing. Flipped it over, ..... nothing. Ok, opened my parts box, grabbed 3 or 4 different wedge led's and tried them, nothing. What the heck is with that bulb? Only the original blue one works?

That makes sense. Thank you. I didn't think there were differences in the LEDs. (Now I feel like a dumbass hahahaha)

Ok @Dent00, I checked the bulb, and also the manual, it is a 6.3v 2chip bulb. But given that, I will continue to look tonget one in a flasher configuration.

Thank you! Now the fun appears to be finding a domed, yellow 6.3v #555 Flasher. Red and White are all I can find, and that's at Marco Specialties. They say the hunt is 1/2 the fun.....

Ok, well I pulled the original, and it's a 6.3v. I googled the part number in the matrix above 112-5033-08, and Marco has it in white and red only. Marco's ad saws it a #555 6.3v 2 chip, but doesn't say anything about being a flasher. I'm going to get a couple. I'm still dumbfounded as to why no other 6.3 bulb I have works..... I'm talking about the one in front of the Train in the nose.

Welcome Mach5Amps ! I just got my NIB Premium VE in February, and really love it! It was my 1st NIB. Unfortunately, the addiction took hold, and placed my order for a NIB Jurassic Park a few weeks ago, which will be my 3rd NIB. The mods can be addicting too, so just be careful hahahaha! So, now there will be 5 in the game room. Fortunately for my wife, there isn't any room left after the Jurassic comes. Enjoy, and don't be afraid to ask questions., A great bunch of guys here!

Why are you replacing the Lightning Bolts? I know a long time ago when they first came out, they weren't lighted, but my Premium VE that I got NIB in January came with Lighted Lightning Bolts.

Hmmm.... I'll take a picture of mine when I get home tonight.

Ok, so took a closer look at mine, and it appears there is a PBC LED behind my Lightning Bolts. However, Im good with that. Sorry, I was wrong.

I'm definitely kicking it around. I'll let you know for sure tonight.

Ok, put me.down for one. I'll be #5

I added rhe Pinwoofer Super Kit to my Premium Vault today. WOW! What a difference it makes! Very glad I decided to get this system. A++++ service as well. Dan is there 100%

The money tree can only be picked so much in a short period of time. Hahahaha!

Yes sir, on Saturday during the day. Are you coming?

Crap! Fingers crossed!

Ok. I'm having a bit of a problem, and I'm curious if anyone else has had this happen to them. I decided to do my first "backup to usb" today, on my Premium Vault. Every time I attempt it, it makes it somewhere around 25% done, and the display blinks a couple times, and it exits the service mode and straight back to as if I had never opened the door and went into the utilities. The machine doesn't appear to do a total reboot, just completely exits the service menu and backup procedure. I was doing a backup hoping that it would save our high scores and settings. Unlike the Spike systems, there's no utility to save settings and scores, just total backup, so Im not even sure if the backup will save the things I want it to. Please let me know what you think. I'm going to grab a new USB stick and try that tomorrow. Ive already took this one, reformatted it and tried again. No difference. Its a 4gb USB stick.

I only have a 32gb and the machine doesn't recognize that stick. I'll grab an 8gb tomorrow. But it does a "checking for space" before starting. Oh well, I'll grab an 8 and see what happens. Will it save my scores and settings too?

That's very true, when installing "new" code. I was wanting to back up just in case there was some sort of daya loss, or if I made some arbitrary change to something that screwed everything up. And actually, the latter sounds like something I might do hahahaha!

I need a little help guys. We were playing last night, a when the ball went in the cannon, it moved just fine, and the ball fired when she hit the button, but the cannon stayed in the full "out" position. I took the glass off, and the cannon felt really sloppy. Lifted the playfield, and I found a set screw loose on a linkage. Not the one on the motor. Tightened it, and thru the gun test got it to go to home. Tried to go thru the test again, the cannon came down and stopped. Failed the moving to switch 61 test. Have no idea where to go from here. Any ideas? I searched for cannon issues, and Im sure this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find it. It's like the timing is off. Thank in advance guys.

So here's where my inexperience comes in. I go in switch test mode, and it really doesn't do much but make a sound and show if the + or - switch is pushed, or a flipper etc. So I go to the active switch test, and it shows the cannon mark switch active, probably because the cannon is at a 45 deg angle. But still not moving.

I went to the cannon test , in the cannon test special section, and it gives me the failed move to switch 61 message up front. Are 61 and 62 optos? This is Premium Vault, about 9 mos old HUO.

No, I haven't yet. Gotta stop, family came over before going home from visiting for the holidays ..... gotta be a good Grandpa hahahaha. This will continue tomorrow.

Good Afternoon. Ok, so the switch on the front right of the cannon is the cannon eject switch. Basically tells the machine whether or not a ball is loaded, and its working fine. Under the playfield, I can see an opto, and only 1 micro switch. But there is no way I can get to that switch to test it. Heck, I can't even see the arm. I believe I'm going to have to remove the assembly to check out what's wrong. When I go into coil test #32, the cannon motor test, nothing happens, but I do hear it buzzing a little. To disassemble, I think I need to loosen the set screw on the collar to the cannon shaft, and most likely just lift it straight up. Then it looks like there are about 4 hex head w/slot wood screws holding the assembly to the playfield. I think I'll try to drop that assembly tomorrow and see what I can see

Lermods , got the cannon back working. Didn't have to drop the mechanism under the playfield. It appears there us a real sweet spot as far as the position of the cannon when you tighten the set screw. The way I got it to free uo was to raise the playfield all the way up, then loosen thebset screw on the collat under the cannon, not the motor. I loosen it enough to allow the cannon to hang straight down, then went thru the cannon test and then locked the set screw at home position.

Just curious. What are they going for these days?

Does anyone know if Stern had any plans of developing Insider Connected to be able to work on S.A.M. machines? I know I can always go Scorbit, but just curious about Insider Connected. Thanks!

I have an AC/DC Premium Vault Edition which I bought NIB in 2019. It just recently stopped retaining credits, or I just noticed it. I have a bill acceptor in it, which I do in all my machines, even though they are in my home. This is how I save for more pinballs! Anyway, it saves scores and everything else, just not credits. Any ideas? Thanks!

Anyone have an idea?

Anyone have an idea?

No, it set for.$1.00 per game

I totally lost all GI LEDS the other day. Just fired up my machine, and all the LEDs associated with the Grinder Extension Board are out. When testing the board during diagnostics. I get nothing. Reset all the connections, nothing. Anyone ever had this board go out?

I need some help from y'all please. A week ago I posted losing all my GI LED'S on my Premium Vault. I checked and reseated connectors, nothing crispy. All the red LED's on the main board above the fuses are lit, but removed and checked F1, checked good. I thought it might be the extension board, so I ordered one and replaced it, no help. In diagnostics, nothing lights when doing the extension board test. Can anyone point me to something else? Thanks!

Thank you very much @Kawydud! I'll check that out when I get home.