Has anyone added an LED OCD to TWD Premium or LE ?

I'm looking at getting an IMVE, which i believe can support an LEDOCD, by removing the smaller boards on J12 & J13, thus restoring the nicer fade effects which Stern bypassed using the VE's LEDs. I'm also keen on TWD, and believe this would also work on the TWD Pro, BUT i prefer the TWD Premium overall, thus my question. Pics of a TWD Prem backbox, J12 & J13 would be enough!

I hate how you can see the game trying to do fades on the red triangular arrow inserts, but it stutters and blinks between ON>OFF>ON. Stern really need better hardware control over their insert effects now they've moved to LEDs.

Yours,
an LED OCD fan across the pond...
Paul.

does that mean the Premium has all the fading effects masked for simple LED implementation too? Or does the serial lighting support it?

I know ST Prem can do fading, although they've chosen not too in some cases.

Ok, so hopefully my last assumption & question (for today):

On IMVE; i'd need to have an LEDOCD board, remove the J12 & J13 mini-boards, and enable the OLD option in the "adjustment that lets you pick the new light shows or the old" (taken from the Stern IMVE v1.83 release notes). This then drives the lamps for incandescent lighting effects to support the original IM.

Whereas in TWD Pro, i cannot see any similar option from the release notes, presumably because this is the only version. Therefore the LEDOCD 'could' reveal some good lighting effects hidden in there, as it could've been coded for incandescents, but then again it could 'just' smooth out (and slightly dim) those harsh flashing LEDs.

Thanks.

LED OCD installed in IMVE.

AWESOME is restored.

Is there such a thing as LED FLASHER OCD ??

If not, there should be.

All the more reason for such a product.

Don't suppose there's any more documented logic behind the GIzmo settings for Stern GI?

The website says:

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(http://ledocd.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=19)

Fade Time Adjustment
You have the option of removing one or both of the jumpers to make your GI fade on and off more quickly. The speed at which they fade is dependent on how many LEDs are in your game and what type they are.

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So, LED type aside, does that mean if i take both jumpers out = ON/OFF fade is faster?

Both jumpers plugged in = ON/OFF fade slower?

4 settings in total? i.e.

11 = Slow fade (both jumpers present)
10 = Slower fade
01 = Faster fade
00 = Fast fade (no jumpers present)

The 3 games I have fitted with these have 100% LEDs in the GI.

Much appreciated.

Thanks.

Even better, don't buy a kit! Just a bag of standard 2SMD frosted sunlight whites from comet will do you for inserts. Just check the no. of wedge vs bayonette.

Plus I doubt the kit includes flashers, GI or backbox. Thus I've found homebrew to be far more interesting.

My AFM and Congo are both 90% sunlight whites, with 10% colour matches that look slightly better. TRON is 70/30 - I'll show you in Oct. Everyone has different tastes though!

Interesting to know as I've got a similar high pitched noise emanating from the GI OCD board in my Congo in the UK. It's not become too annoying, yet! I'm using Comet leds.

Mine do!

If they're anti-ghosting LEDs then the OCD's effect could be lesser than regular 'cheap' LEDs.

SM took more tuning than any other game I've OCD'd, but the time spent was definitely worthwhile. The 5 Villian inserts and the white arrows needed some tweaking.

You won't benefit from using a GIzmo unless the game's GI is also LED. And even then - the effect is very subtle. I've chosen not to install a GIzmo on TRON, but have on IM and SM. Each to their own.

Has anyone installed an LED OCD in TWD Pro? I'd really like to see that.

Really.

I may be forced to sell my LE, buy a Pro, and do this myself...

Anyone?

LED 1st, check, then GI 2nd.

Just make sure you can get the USB cable in easily.

And also there should only be a few, if any, incandescants left in inserts or GI.

Then configure.

If anyone's curious, this is what TWD Pro looks like with LED OCD:

Personally, i think it's much better!

Pretty sure delay is set to 1 in this example.

Just sold MET Pro, and had to take this OCD board out before it went. The stock lighting is so harsh, it hurts... I'm buying a MET Prem instead and it'll certainly take some getting used to. I'd happily pay for OCD'ing a Premium...

That’s a shame, because I don’t think anyone else is even looking at this as a problem to solve, but I totally get your position.

I recently sold my OCD’d MET Pro to get a Premium (I like the game a lot!) so it will be hard to adjust to blinkyland all over again... kept the ocd board, but now it has no home

It was smooth as butter in the Pro.

I had an OCD board blow in a Shadow once, sounds like a similar action with all bulbs lighting then stopping, but that was down to me pushing it a bit too hard on the board and shorting the back of it against the metal plate. Needed a new transistor, then 100% good again. Also went in AFM, but again that was down to me shorting 2 inserts (changing bulbs with power on, 2 touched, my own fault). point is you may have a short on your lamp matrix - did you put all the bulbs & holders back securely? None hanging down still? I only have the older rev4 design with transistors and a break out board (don’t ask me how rev4 is older!)

Also unplug those mods if you can do so easily.

Ace

Have you tried your TAF board in TZ?

Has anyone got a TZ, with both the Pinbits Gumball light installed and a GI OCD?

The Pinbits instructions suggest wiring the GI part of their mod to the GI string back-left, behind the Gumball.

From memory (as i can't currently test this) that's not the string that dims during the 'put it back' Powerball sequence? so the Pinbita Gumball GI light won't dim.

Has anyone wired their mod to a different (more relevant to the Powerball) GI string?

Can the mod handle dimming with a GI OCD?

I'm also curious to see if the red insert wiring might cause an issue with the OCD board too.

http://www.iobium.com/installing_the_gumball_lamp_boar.htm
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That’s really useful, thanks.

Have you seen any issues with the mod's red Gumball LEDs when connected as per Pinbits guidance and using LED OCD?

Hello,

Can anyone with Ingo's clock board *and* a GI OCD board in their Twilight Zone help please?

I've finally got my TZ clock connected again after 2yrs (!) of restoring this machine and I'm running a GI dim 0-8 test but the stock white clock LEDs are not dimming as i was expecting them to.

I know there's a brightness dial on the clockboard, but haven't investigated this yet... it's the final v1.9 Clock board.

GI OCD board is set to dim the clock GI string, and all other playfield/backbox GI dims nicely with the Comet 2SMDs.

Thanks.