This is Pinnovator's- they supply the whole plate, no drilling. You have main volume up and down so you don't have to open the door, speaker jack, jack volume, main speaker off switch so it's headphones only.

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I used the Stern standard one. Works fine. Inputting your headphone jack in it does not mute out the speakers though...perhaps there is a setting for this. So now each time I use the headphones I just quickly open the coin door and reduce the volume to zero. Not a huge deal, but my pinsound + on my IJ automatically does this.

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oh very intersting. After looking at the Stern one, I thought it was just basic to control the headphones only. Good to know that the knob does the volume of machine also when headphones are not plugged in.

How would you go about setting it to mute the game when headphones are plugged in? Is there a menu option?

Thats a nice clean look. Since you have this and Pinsound, do you have a preference? My only complaint with Pinsound from what ive seen, is I hate that it installs outside the machine.

I only have the Pinsound headphone station because I have the full pinsound setup on that machine. Since GB doesn't need the Pinsound board (but you should grab the code with the additional music tracks), I went with the OEM version to keep the machine as OEM as possible. Personal preference only...while the Stern one may be a bit on the high priced side for what it does, the clean look is a nice benefit.

I highly recommend checking out Pinnovators for headphone jacks. You won't find better support and they are local and great people. Personally I think the external volume control is worth an extra $20. Plus I'd rather support local small business.

https://pinnovators.myshopify.com/pages/ghostbusters

Yeah, at least on my tmnt once you plug in the headphone Jack to the board, you get additional menu options...not sure about that on GB tho.

Helped put a color DMD in a buddy's GB last night. The left ramp orbit switch isn't working 100%. The Switch right under the "14 Street" sign. Metal tab is bent and I think the switch is going bad. Doesn't register manually sometimes. Looking at the manual, it says the part for that is 500-9935-04. The switch that is there however is 180-5209-00. Is the manual incorrect, or am I reading it incorrectly?
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My GB prem has a switch there that looks like the lower one (180-5209-00).

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Perfect and thank you. Ordered one up. Seems like every time I try and order a couple things from pinballlife.. I end up with a 100$ cart lol

New batch just came in - left ramp airball protector & right orbit protector.

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Looking for a GB, ideally on the west coast, but could be anywhere. PM me if you are thinking of getting rid of one.

Thanks Again Les

Looks Great !!

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Has anybody else got through god mode for the billion and to the victory laps ?

A couple of times. Once in normal mode and once via the shortcut. Not lately though.

I lost about a third of the playfield while playing, rebooted, and got the error message that node-9 board is not found.

Checked the recommended guidance about re-seating ethernet cables. No help.

I noticed that the red light is on, but no green light and no yellow light. I'm guessing it's not regulating the 6-volts. I don't see any obvious damage to the circuitry.

Before I buy another board, anything else I can check? Any chance a down-stream short broke the board, or is it just that these boards can, and do, fail from time-to-time?

I have read that it is possible that one of those lamps might have shorted out and by removing 1 lamp at a time might find the culprit

That’s all I have as this new tech scares me due to lack it repair vs full replacement

How many hits on Slimer does it take for him to relight the modes?

Interesting. I'll check that out.

I think the voltage reducing chip on the node board is done. Check with Stern first and also check with Stern for the correct replacement node board. Same thing happened to our game and we have no mods.

Interesting. Thank you. If I had a 48 volt supply, I'd remove the card and test it. Maybe even try to replace that chip. But I'll only mess something else up if I play with it in the machine.

My worry was that something else downstream burned it out. But it seems like yours was just the board. That's a good sign. Curious if heat is an issue, too. I've lost plenty of voltage regulators to heat.

The red LED is the 48V power supply so you have 48V to the node board. Just no lower voltages at that board so the whole thing stops working. It could be a short somewhere on the playfield like the scoop light so I would make sure that is not shorting out as well.

We have had 3 node boards go since Spike came out, across over 20 games. 2 node boards on GBLE and one on a SW premium. All were the same issue, blown voltage reducing chip. I think this is a common problem. I have noticed on the later versions of the node boards, the chip number is different and the chip seems to be more robust (less failures). There are other Pinsiders that understand the electronics a lot better than me, maybe they could help out here.

Very helpful. I will disconnect the other connectors and reconnect them one at a time to isolate a shorting problem. I wonder if a heatsink would help the 6v chip.

I'll also look more closely at it to see if there are any visual signs of it being damaged.

I'm not sure of any other way to look for a lamp short other than it happening again.

There is a photo of one of ours. The board is not that big so you should be able to find the chip.

Good Luck!

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I'm thinking of buying some node boards as spare parts. All I have at the moment is a gble with a jp2 coming.
What node boards should I consider and I just read that not all boards are the same. Is that correct in that say a node 9 for gb won't work on jp2?

My node board 1 just died. Got one coming from JJ @ game exchange... $150

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That is correct.

here is a board list that someone put together a while back

Stern_Node_Boards(1) - Pinsider-hocuslocus.pdf

Dead Flip-Jack Danger has a stream with Dwight describing/showing all the changes with the new code update that might be helpful.

You can keep 1 node board as spare. You set the number with the switches, so node 8 or 9. JP uses also the same all over. I had an issue with the nodeboard on my JP number 8, but was fixed under warranty. You can also swap nodeboards in the machine to see if the board is broke or something else. And yes, I have been thinking to order 1 spare, with a GB, JP, Elvira and BKSor in the collection.

My recent adventures with "9 NODE NOT FOUND"...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghostbusters-premium-9-node-not-found-was-the-beginning#post-6109080

You are talking 1 spare of each node board or just the most common one that fails the most often?

Getting ready to shop out my Ghostbusters Pro with some Titan glow in the dark bands. I haven't shopped this machine before. Is it pretty straightforward? Any advice esp. removing the ramp? Any advice is appreciated! I've done a few basic machines but this one seems a bit intimitdating but maybe I'm overexaggerating (I hope!)

I stripped it down when I did the glow Titans too. It was surprisingly easy. I went in sections and everything turned out great.

Would anyone like to share a picture with the glow bands on? I’m curious how they look. Thanks in advance

Looks great! Thanks

After waiting to buy the 3D library mod for my Pro for maybe 6 months from Marco's (out of stock) I finally gave up a printed something similar. Keep in mind, this isn't the Stern model, this is a modified version of the New York Library. I had to buy the STL file and make some mods to it. Wife's been playing around with painting it, trying to give it a weathered stone look. I just took off the plastic library, and slipped this over the metal brackets.

I think it took about 17 hours to print on my Ender 3, with some areas being so-so. I posted this in the 3D printing thread, thought I would share here.

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Looks fantastic with the glow bands. What bulbs did you use, sunlight white? Thanks!

Stock Stern lighting... I think they are natural white?

Wish they did a vault edition of Ghostbusters.

I actually used a mix of Glo and Clear on mine. I used clear in the areas that shine light through towards the front of the playfield, and Glo in most of the other areas, especially around the pop bumpers...to me this works very well.
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Wow that looks great. Where did you get the glow balls? Is the ramp pretty straightforward to take off? That’s the part I’m a bit nervous about.

Not sure about the balls, they were on the machine when I got it (I'm not the original owner).

I didn't take any ramps off, the rubbers are all accessible by removing the plastics around the PF.

Same...been looking for a premium near me for a bit, if anyone is interested in selling in the PA, DE, NJ, NY area please PM!!

Oh woah really? That is awesome if I don’t need to remove the ramp. I was figuring I did to get to the area around the pop bumpers

I was wondering if the skill shot info that pops up on the screen for every ball can be turned off in setting? I looked thru setting but nothing popped out to me as a way to turn it off.