It's a tough one. You could wire the GI to your own 5v power supply. Or maybe just the lower playfield GI.

DE to Stern have done this a lot, more in the DE days. I hate it on LAH when the MB is lit, and everything, GI and all 150 flashers in the game are all flashing in your face.

I assume they are using a relay to blank the lights, that is how sega/de did it. If so, just wire around the relay.

I hate it on any DE or Sega game. I wouldn't be able to own a Baywatch unless I disabled the hyperactive GI relay.

The relay is mounted on the board. The only way to stop this is to re-program the code or cut the GI wire, then that part of the GI will no longer light up.

it's not so bad if you have gameroom lighting, but in pitch blackness, it's a PIA. Tommy does this too. I didn't notice that much until I recently moved the game up into the main gameroom, where it's completely dark. Now it messes with me badly. But still enjoyable.

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I don't know about TF, but on most DE and System 11 it works like this. Next to the relay are a big and a small connector (2 or 3 pins). Disconnect the small one and it stops this very annoying flashing and clicking.

Isn't there a software option to turn it off? If not, please add it Stern dudes.

i think that is a good idea

The GI flashing is seizure inducing in a dark room. Transformers, tftc, batman forever - these are some of the worst offenders. I've gone far enough to wire some of the lower GI and spotlights to a constant power source.

We can't have that, now can we?

To stop the flashing on Tommy unplug connector cn7 on the power supply board.

won't that turn off all those lights?

Nope, it stops the relay from turning the lights off.

i'll have to investigate, thanks for the heads up.

Yep, Sell it.

I was thinking about the tommy thing. If I pull that, when the mode starts, it's not going to shut off the GI's keeping only the mode objective lit, will it? Which I don't mind as much, because I know what i'm doing, but people I have come over and play it, it's a great learning tool so people understand what their mode objective is. I"ll just have to put up with it. Now if the code could be rewritten to give you the option to turn it off.........Cough cough Transformers.

will it be the same for DE?

i'm going nuts when i play LW3

Tommy is also a Data East.

It's the same yes. Unplug connector cn7 on the power supply board. On a LW3 it's a 3 pin connector.

Whoa, had to bump crazy old thread to thank this inactive member lol.

Pulling this little connector has saved me from seizure inducing blinking. Something that’s been bugging me forever but never really bothered to look into.

Thanks darkmiss - hope you come back someday!

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Something I have been doing to tame down the seizure blinking of GI relays is to put a low ohm power resistor across the relay. When the relay is open the resistor keep the bulbs on, but at a much dimmer level. That way you still get an effect, but its not so jarring. Data East/Sega/Stern games have too much blinking for my taste and the instant on/off nature of LEDs makes it worse.

Does this work with leds though?