LOL.. funny. Almost the same thing happened to me... but I broke both F2 and F3 fuse clips.
I took out the PSU, replaced the clips but now the "back" half of my GI light will not come on.

Any ideas??

Thanks,

MM

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That looks incredible! Do you have any extra plastic to sell, or would you mind even making more of them?!?

samesies, I already got a airball guard from ya, I'd love to get a new mirror plexi

I spy a LW3

I planned on making a few more, just need to determine how many people are interested.

LW3 spotted in the ZZ Top doc on netflix too!

Still shuffling pins around but LW3 is in the lineup and the Mrs. is giving it a spin. Only thing missing is the knocker which I just noticed gone the other day and is on its was from thepinballwizard.net. great people!

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I was reading the rules for LW3. Apparently during the multi-ball, if you get a second ball up the ramp before the first ball goes into the return lane you get a double jackpot. Further more If you hit the left orbit in a certain amount of time you get a quadruple jackpot. Has anyone ever achieved this or tried it?

If anyone really enjoys the Lethal Weapon movies like I do. I made a Pin Sound mix for LW3. It's got sound clips from the first three movies. And also the soundtrack form the first 3 movies in the mix. It turned out pretty good. It's on Pin Sounds web site if anyone is interested.

Ramp once - single jp
Ramp quickly again - double jp
At any time get a ball in the left saucer, then shoot up the ramp - double jp.
Quickly get a second ball up the ramp - quadruple jp!

Best part of the game! I’ve managed to get two quad jackpots in one multiball before. This game might be pretty basic and shallow but its can sure kick ur ass, at least mine does!

Shooting the bad guy while the ball is in play without draining is so satisfying.

$30 plus the shipping, drop me a PM if interested.

Only have 3 made up, no plans on making more unless some interest. Figure $10 for priority shipping and I work daily so can ship quick.

Gary

Edit: One sold, two left.

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Hoping someone can shed some light on a re-import lw3 I'm trying to bring back. Someone cut plug power cord off spliced in cord and tried to start it with set to Europe 220v settings.

So far I have fixed transformer issue. Repinned 9 pin gi connector at power supply board that was melted. Yet 2 more issues I have to work through, 1 main one before i feel comfy trying to turn on

Main issue left:

Plug j5 9 pin connector on playfield power board/ aux power driver board is burnt as well. Some of these wires run up to plug I fixed on power supply board. Someone started to fix. They got as far as cutting the plug off, using a used pigtail from another game and spliced 4 wires/ left 5 hanging.

Pin 1 white/brown
2 white/yellow
3 white/ green
4 white/violet
5 white/ brown
6 white/ yellow
7 white/ green
8 key
9 white/ violet.

So only 8 pins get used. But I have 9 wires. 3 white with yellows. Yet schematic not showing 3 white/yellow.

I have no faith in previous owners skills and as such do not trust that the wires hooked up are in proper places. So going to have to ohm out wires make certain they are in correct pins.

But can someone please confirm the 3 white/yellow wires for me.

Secondary issue- pic is included- just two random wires under playfield by ball shooter just hanging out loose. Dont see anywhere they would go. Also they were spliced at one time it appears so....

Thank you.

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I know two of the yellow wires go together. I will get you some pics shortly

I'll look at mine when I get home.

Checked the wiring diagram, looks like wiring for ball launch Sol#12 vio/yel and brn/yel wires.

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Dang you guys are quick. Thank you very much. I'll pick on it through out the week and report back

When you apply some wax for ramp the ball will drain faster and easy to get the quadruple jackpot. I did it and it is so cool.

Got like 10 minutes in before work this morning. Attached is a pic of what I'm dealing with plug wise. Not to terrible - seen worse in late model cars from installs gone wrong.

Just 1 more question on the j5 connector. The harness that the wiring runs into has a "Y" or fork to it. Half my j5 wire bundle runs upward toward power supply. Other half runs to right.

I would think 1-4 goes "up" and 5-9 to the right. Can anyone confirm please. Will save me time ohming out end to end and diagram chasing.

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Having Color DMD display issues of lag and/or blank display. Thinking its a power issue. Have the XPin power supply, Color DMD LED display, and Pinsound Premium speakers. The original display worked fine with no lag or blanking out. Issue arrises during game play. Any suggestions?

I will look this up and send you photos this evening when I get home.

Here you go. They go to the topmost connector on the power supply. Good luck. Lethal weapon 3 is a lot of fun.

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Twice I have gotten "Super Score" which counts down like Super Spinner does. I can't find this documented anywhere. Can someone explain?

Thanks.

Thank you
Looks like today will be an early quit time at work so should get to it today.

Indeed got out of work early today. Came home finished wiring everything. Thank you everyone for the help.

After fixing wiring and double check of fuses- was time to fire it up. Game boots and have sound/lights, but dmd is blind.

8 pin connector p1 my voltages are correct except for 2 pins. Pin 2 -98v does not even have a pin on board. Pin 8 +68 v I'm half that at 33v.

Connector cn2 has 5v power and ground.

On board in back box pia is not illuminated.

So more digging to go!

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Looks like there may be enough meat to solder a pin in there for the 98v. Worth a shot because displays are not cheap. Also, the 68v is most likely something on the power supply. But I would do the pin on the display first

Agreed, I just finished sorting out the DMD on mine 3 weeks ago. Strange the pin is broke off.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/dmd-out-of-action-on-lw3-not-ok-ok-ok

Let me know if you need a power board, I have one I just put new regulators on and is a spare.

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Worst case you can get a Pin2DMD or a ColorDMD

I just took the plunge and ordered updated ROMS. Currently have 2.05 for Display and CPU. Anyone know the difference of the new one? Latest one is 2.08 cpu and 2.06 for display. Also considering the color dmd (LCD version) has anyone put one of these in a data east?

"Super Score" is apparently Getaway. No clue why the display refers to it differently from the playfield and the documentation.

I think you're going to lose all the multiball scenes and they get replaced with "Tri-ball" scenes

LED is the way to go with the display. I have both in my machines and led to me is the better choice for color and clarity.

Crap, in perpetually being a cheap bastard I ordered the single rom chip and was going to modify the display board. This is going to make it harder to revert back if I don't like it.

teddyb73 I really like the simplicity and efficiency of the LED screens but I have not been able to warm up to the way they look. My buddy put one in his Rocky and Bullwinkle there was just something my eyes picked up on how each pixel formed its color.

The LCD won’t fit unless you modify the plastic dmd/speaker panel. The LED fits as it’s the size of an original DMD.

thanks gdonovan !

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Glad to be of service, love the lighted speakers! Gives me bad thoughts of modding.

This is funny you ask. I've just replaced the video rom and cpu rom. There are only 2 differences in can tell thus far. As Malenko mentioned, Multiball has been replaced as tri-ball and your "Super Score" was originally "Getaway". I might put the old video ROMs back in
The only other think that I've never seen is that in the newest .08 cpu rom, i was awarded a movie scene during a normal leo getz. Don't recall that being an award in .05.

This is funny history as Williams sued DE for the use of "multiball". This was apparently the first game to go tri-ball (I assume DE lost). The name "Getaway" . . . well, come on . I guess Williams had a problem with that too. Honestly when I play LW3 I feel it is a two-bit knock off of HS2 and Terminator. Which is okay, as it is still my favorite machine.

LW3s layout is pretty close to T2 (its easy to compare because I have them side by side :p ) and with my pin2DMD I just made the "triball" scenes trigger the old Multiball scenes instead. I'm sure ColorDMD could offer up the same change in their release.

All mirrors sold, thank you.

Mines in too. The left hole.... man its tight, could have been a shade taller and it would have been easier to install, but I know the variances in the machines are all over the place. Looks way better than the one I had before with the giant crack in it.

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If I do another batch I have marked on the template to move the hole up slightly on that side. Looks great!

We are looking to add a used machine very shortly and found a LW3 we are interested in. The family played a LW3 at Expo and really liked it.
I had a 2 questions that came up from the playfield pictures of the game.

First picture and question
In the center 3 drop targets only 1 of the drops is up and visible. It has an American flag instead of what other machines have on their drop targets. Besides looking dirty (the black mark across the flag) is that the wrong picture on the drop target?

Second picture and question
There is a 3 bank of drop (or other type of targets) where each of the targets are of different thicknesses. I did not see this in other playfield pictures. Is this normal or is there something going on with them (incorrect or broken)? It obviously is missing a sticker on one of the targets as well.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!

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So all drop targets should look the same and thickness, like the 2 in the second picture.
You can get a new drop target set from Marco for 20.85
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/DT1438

Thank you!!!

Correct, it looks like someone replaced broken drop targets with whatever they had lying around. Be sure to go over the whole machine, if they skipped corners on drop targets who knows what else was done.

That's what I was thinking after seeing everyone's comments. Especially when this one is listed as have been "gone through " by a tech. I will wait until the right one comes along.
Thanks for your help!

If the worst thing about it is having to replace drop targets; there's no reason not to get it.

If the price is right I'd not worry about some funky drop targets, thats little money.

The "tech going through it" might have been nothing more than making sure the machine worked after doing a minor repair and some fresh elastics. For all you and I know the tech could have recommended new targets and the owner said "why, these work"

People paying for services tend to skate as cheap as possible, seen in all the time when I was an auto tech and shop foreman. Its amazing when you look up the job history on a car and that "full brake job you did just last year" was in reality a $79 coupon set of pads done 5 years ago. I kid you not.

Look at the pin as it is and determine if it is worth the price.

have any of yall put in a pin stadium light set? Just got one and I'm trying to figure our which flasher to put the PS UV flasher on. Thanks!