Clever thinking.

Cool. Can't wait to get mine. Already thinking of ways to customize and personalize. Is that Elvira checking out your game?

Wow awesome idea

Well I hate to hear the RGB strip worked loose, but nice adaption! We did something similar at MGC last year with the proto zombie game. It worked so well we actually adopted it permanently.

Is pinball bulbs going to do a brighting kit it for amh,in understand they are working on it

Does that mean you've adopted it permanently into AMH or another Zombie game?

I did the same on my amh and wow what a difference it made,do it.

Hey Charlie -

Does the power supply working the LED strips have enough juice to run an extra strip of LEDs?

Since it's GI, I'm guessing that they aren't individually addressable strips, so chaining on should be pretty easy if there's enough power.

Charlie... are you going to move the light strip to this new location, on the rest of the AMH games to be shipped?

Feel free to do this with mine!

One of the benefits of a later build is having the early buyers evolve this game into a masterpiece!

Probably a headache for Spooky though.

Do mine too! Thanks!

I added 4 cointaker star post LEDs under the slings and it looks very very cool also and of course it take a little longer than the light strip relocation but both are a must

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The sling lighted posts are real nice!

That's the best gameplay video yet. Spooky should promote it.

I clicked the vid link and it wouldn't play for me.

I'm looking to add the (4) lighted cone posts under slings, and relocate the light string to above the ghosts in back (if Spooky & gang doesn't do it to future games shipped). I'm excited should be paid in full 2 months.

rt click new tab (left clicking is broke for now)
-mof

Ah, I wondered about that, I had to do that too.

Thanks mof... right clicking did it.

those lit sling posts look like they do real wonders for the lower playfield, great idea rockrand!

Vid worked for me, and thanks for posting. Just awesome. That simple mod lighting effect sure does make the ghosts pop and adds more of an eeriness factor as well, it seems. It makes me even more excited to receive my game, which I expect in a month or two. If you'll be at PAPA, I'll look you up so we can talk some AMH.

Looks great. I normally install 12v LED strips under the backbox in my pins just like that. Facing down and the upper playfield gets lit up terrifically.

Here's my Star Wars and a Frankenstein I shopped and modded for a friend with the LED strips.

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Nice gameplay video - thanks for making it!

We use bog standard 12 volt RGB strips. We cut two 6 foot pieces in half.

There are technically left and right sides though I didn't do much separating the colors. Point is, you could add this strip onto the existing wire in parallel. Check the PCB marking near the plug for the pin out.

+12 volt out
Red return
Green return
Blue return

Additionally this could drive the color changing ColorDmd in Sigma mode.

Thanks Ben. I'll pick up a strip so I'm ready to go when my game shows up. With some extra wiring, it should be easy to add to the apron if I want as well.

Are they 60leds/m or 30leds/m?

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It's yours now do whatever you want to it!

I would say though, better to add stuff to the 12 v line than 5 as 5 is used for a lot more stuff.

Very nice Betelgeuse!

If someone could snap a few pics of this process and the installation it would be great. I'm a little more challenged in this area and need Lego like parts and instructions.

I'd like this too...especially if it's buying and adding a new one on to what's existing. I could probably figure out taking one from the backbox, but it sounds like adding one might be cool if it can be done.

I ordered these off of eBay to add a strip. Will let you know how it turns out. Should be able to use the quick connector to just add onto the end of the existing strip.

5050 3528 RGB led strip connector + wire cable extension any feet solderless

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RGB 5050 WATERPROOF SMD Flexible strip 300 led lights5 meters 16.4 feet IP65 NEW

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Great, thanks! I'll wait to hear before I try it, but sounds easy enough...even for me .

I installed an extra LED strip under the backbox today. Just wired it in series with the bottom backbox strip using the connector I posted earlier. It works great to light up the back of the playfield. The first couple pics show it going from red to blue.

Also color matched the inserts and upgraded the GI with Comet Twin 2835 SMD's. The color matched inserts make a huge difference.

Overall, I think the game went from being a little dark and washed out to perfect.

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Just a quick note that I did the exact same thing Luckymoey did today to mine. I love it and it really brightens things up.

Thanks for the suggestion and the help with this!

We need to bombard Chuck with emails so he'll offer these great ideas as pre-installed options.

I'd pay a bit extra to have this factory installed on my game!

Brighter, color-matched insert bulbs upgrade
RGB light strip

Um... anything else?

I agree, mines coming in a couple weeks and I'd pay extra to have the pinballbulbs kit preinstalled + other lighting enhancements.

Random update
We shipped out first amh kit few days ago. Not on The site yet to buy as it's being tested by this customer. Im at the hospital at the moment having a baby so add a few days extra for it beingadd.

More like my wife is having a baby and I'm just walking and panicking

What would be great is to get the GI at 6.3v instead of 5V so that the LED bulbs glow at the normal brightness.

Don't quote me on this, but didn't maybe Ben in a thread mention it was updated to around 6volts? Maybe I made that up, so he'd need to comment of course

No, we use the 5 volt line for GI. On the last 15 or so games Chuck dials the PSU up to 5.2 to help a little but that's also used for some logic so we can't push it.

The 12 volt line could be put through a variable power regulator to get 6.3 volts but that might cause a brownout on the RGB lighting.

Amps are not unlimited

I added one double spotlight on the right to light the helevator and playfield a bit, but I think that' s good now with the RGB strip and brighter color-matched bulbs.

I may add a purple or blue LED strip under the flippers as well, but that may be more personal preference.