Thanks for the compliments on the kit.
If anyone else is interested in one, I have parts to build a few more. Please PM me and we can discuss.

Pm sent!

Got my shaker today from Paul. It will be my first game with a shaker in it.

Looks sweet man

Some bw came from factory with a shaker . I believe it was ones made for Japan market .

Got my shaker from paul and it's really nice, very well put together. I had it installed in less than an hour. Unfortunately for me, the transistor on my main driver board that controls solenoid 15 is blown so I will now need to replace it before the shaker will work...sigh. Never replaced a transistor before, or done any board work, but will be fun learning. Paul is top notch with support.

I have a Japenese reimport Baywatch, but no shaker.

Its not bad

Ill have to find where I read that at maybe it was the samples

bigd1979 - how do you know? It may be something else on Lermods, but on my machine it was bad.

This is the only post I've seen with a factory installed shaker, it is disclosed as a Japan re-import:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/1995-sega-baywatch-with-shaker-motor-2000-green-bay-wi#post-2318889

This pinsider was nice enough to let me know which Solenoid triggered the motor on his unit (#15) and even though the US ROM has it labeled as 'not used' it does work in diagnostics and game play for version 4.0 with a date of May 9, 1995.

Sorry meant not bad or difficult to replace

Thanks. Ill be working on this tomorrow. Really hope it is the transistor. I know the shaker works as I hooked it to solenoid 16 to test and it fires and then I hooked what was on 16 to 15 (target bank reset) and it was dead. I guess the only other thing it could be is the resistor.

The actual removal and install of the transistor is only a few mins and im pretty god with an iron.. Its the removal of a 20 year old board that is my only concern as I dont want to damage connectors or wires or cause solder joints elsewhere to open up.there are also two ribbon cables to remove and those can be fragile.

3 legs my friend . The hardest part is making sure u dont use to much or to little heat bc u dont wanna lift traces

So I set out this morning to get this thing working. I removed the connectors and take the board out, no issues. Test the transistor in question with my meter, checks out fine according to specs and matches what the other transistors near it show...WTF?? Check bridge behind it and the resistor behind it and they also check out good, WTF??

Go over to the game and look at the connector and the seating of the wire. Using a paper clip, put it in the end where the pin would go and using my meter touched the clip with one probe and the other probe on the end of the wire in the connector...nothing...no continuity. Pushed and squeezed on the connector, check for continuity again, BAM, got it. Put board back in, put all the connectors back on, turn game on, I hear a pop and it starts smoking (just kidding!)

Put the game in test mode, tested coil 15 and holy crap, it's alive. After all that, it was just a poor seating of the wire in the connector. I spent an hour last night practicing removing transistors from an old stereo receiver board...at least I learned a lot as I had never removed a board before, let alone put an iron to one.

As for game play, this thing rocks! It's active in the pops, but also quite a bit throughout the game, I know for sure its active going through switches on a couple of ramps.

Highly recommend this thing. Install is an hour if you know how to seat a wire in a connector properly...lol.

Offending connector below...

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OK Guys - I have (2) kits left, if anyone other Baywatchers are still interested please PM me. The kit is $130 plus shipping (which is $11.65 USPS for the lower 48 states).

For anyone interested please PM an email address and I will send a PDF of the install instructions, and you will understand better what the kits includes.

Thanks,
Paul

Is there a video out there to show how it works on the machine?

Are any kits left? I have a B.W. and woukd love a shaker on it !!!!!!!!

How do you show a video of a shaker working? Just know that it works and is well integrated. It's not overwhelming, but it's nice, most active in the pops

I looked on youtube for the video of shaker, nothing out there that I saw.. Could someone make a video of their shaker rockin ?

Sorry there is nothing to see, it is all about feel.