Quoted from Tophervette:

Pinsound +, inbound from France. Down loaded latest Jan 12, 2021 version to thumb drive.
Can the firmware be on same thumb drive as music down loads?
I found out that I had to register to down load community music. All good.
I now have: original, Doctorin' Tardis, and 13 doctors on thumb drive.
Tried my first upgrade tonight and failed. I added the wobble head Dalek board and wires. The instructions and photo, showed the +12 D.C. Volts and ground to the Dalek board coming from J118 on Power Board positions 2 & 3. The picture showed a new connector to J118 with just the 2 wires going to the Dalek board. Assumption on my part (we know what ASS U ME means), that I just had to unplug the old J118 plug and add new plug and wires to the Dalek board. WRONG!!! Power up and I get error report about Optos, a bunch of them. Good news,the Dalek head flashed and turned like it was supposed to. Turned off Pin. Looked in manual, after the fact, what J118 was connected to. Lesson learned, but nothing fried. The ground black wires goes to both the 4 bulbs on top of back box and to the 10 Opto board J3 under playfield via the grey pipe. The grey/yellow wire +12 v goes directly to feed all 10 Optos on that board J3. Will have to back track and solder Dalek wires to original J118 plug wires. Wish the instructions were clear!

Quoted from Tophervette:

Please, I need help from someone who has removed the playfield from the cabinet. I have separated the back box from the cabinet. I labeled all the connectors that went to the boards in the back box. The large grey tube and black tube of wires dropped into the back of cabinet. I see how I have to raise the playfield and lift it out. The MPF is already out, so it will weigh less. LOL. Tell me that they designed the game, so that there are no wires from the cabinet to the playfield. My fear is that when I lift the playfield up, there will be that one wire or bundle of wires that will not allow me to detach. and I will tear something up. I am guessing that the grey tube is playfield wires and that the black tube is cabinet.
On a happier note, my Backbox has new paint and decals. It looks sweet. Hoping all my notes, blue tape with board pin numbers, and manual will help to put it back together, like Humpty dumpty and all the kings horses and kings men.
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Quoted from pinballinreno:

It gets pretty packed in the back box, but everything fits well enough.
The LEDOCD red cable is a little short so partially mount the board on the floor of the backbox as shown with the cable connected to get it to fit right.
Its ok if one of the screws to the right are left out.
Plenty of room for the GIOCD on the lower left wall just above the metal bracket as shown in the instructions.
Make sure its away from the back wall enough to get the cables on it and not interfere with the CPU board or the light board..
Mount the pinsound motion control board on the upper right side wall as shown in the instructions, all the way snugged up and rouching the back wall or the light board will hit it.
get the cables routed first so you know where it will fit.

Quoted from Doctor6:

Could I bother you to post a 13 doctors mix gameplay video? Even just a minute's worth would do.

Quoted from Doctor6:

Stupid question:
Am I MISSING something back here. I had a ball fly back into this huge opening and into the bottom of my cabinet again today. Obviously ignore the hole where the time expander goes, but that wood in the back. Why is that such a gaping area? It is idiotic that balls can fly back there and then, therefore, into the bottom of the cabinet. Anyone?
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Edit: taking a closer look, something obviously is supposed to he here. Wtf. How do I repair this?
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Quoted from ignat:

ColourDMD installed.
SideBlades installed.
LEDOCD installed.
Mirror Backglass on floor - waiting for some system 11 plastic strips. Thanks pinballinreno
Just needs new glass and I think I’m done.
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Quoted from Doctor6:

So I've had a slight issue that bothers me intermittently, and figured I'd ask if anyone's gotten that.
Sometimes my time expander goes up when both balls are locked, and it cant find where it needs to be. Doesnt happen often but there are moments when it needs to go up and down. Before it sees it. It is very smooth, it just doesn't see it occasionally.
Because it is infrequent, it makes it a bear to diagnose, but I DO want it to be fixed. Anyone have any ideas?

Quoted from Doctor6:

First of all, thanks so much for your continued assistance.
So in the test it is responsive as heck. Part of me is wondering, could this be a software thing? Sometimes it just seems haunted. Like every 5 starts of multiball it has to sorta think about if it should go or not. I've had it start to go.... pause super briefly, then go. And when it does this, you hear the motor go, stop, and go. I've had dw where you hesr the motor but doesnt move. That's not what's happening here. The game is second guessing if it should turn it on at all. Usually when it does that is when it doesnt initially stop at the white target force field bank. When that happens, it will catch it on the downswing, but overshoot it ever so slightly. It works, but is clunky.
But like I said, the odd thing is how the game basically refuses to go into the "davros force field" mode after you get a few jackpots under your belt. It does it for maybe a second before it rewards me the Davros wave.

Quoted from Doctor6:

That doesnt seem to be it, sadly
The game, sometimes, takes up to two seconds before it decides to make the time expander motor to turn on. I really don't know what this could be. I'm running the L2 rom. I assume that's the newest one? Kinda getting ready to give up. It works, but randomly fails now and then. Like no power is getting to the motor in game (in test it goes right away, every single time).

Quoted from pinballinreno:

It was not included on my game.
However my game was in a dumpster fire and thrown in a lake before I restored it....

Quoted from dwangoAC:

I've set Dr. Who up and performed an examination (the puns are flowing through time today). Here's some pictures of how my patient presents, these are all the parts I have.
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I appear to be missing almost everything from the mini playfield and I have a long road in front of me rebuilding what's missing.
If anyone has leftovers even in rough shape, please let me know. I'll start looking through listings and investigating what I need to do to post a parts wanted request in the meantime. Thanks for the support on this journey!