Thanks. I own both stern and JPP, and things happen. Thanks for being unbiased. Hope the thread stays that way. Good luck with the repair. Unboxing my STLE tonight!

Another reason I much prefer individual bulbs and additionally can create your own light effect.

One went out on my STLE early on. It happens.

$hi^storm of posts to follow. 2/14/2014 WOZLE no issues still going strong. Knock on clearcoated cabinet.

WOZLE #259 10/31/13 very minor issues with the upper castle doors, Got a new motor quick from JJP and so far so good and Loving my game.

Joe(acejedi)

I seem to remember a lot of teeth gnashing when it was revealed that Tron was using LED boards instead of individual light sockets, (it was the first I believe) No matter how good LED's are, a certain percentage are going to fail, this is a fact, to me the onus is on the game designers, JJP, Stern, and the others to make sure that all the LED's on their games are easily and afford-ably replaceable if one craps out.

I know we live in a disposable society these days, most consumer devices you basically use as long as you can, then replace with a new one when they die, but a pinball machine is isn't like that, it needs to have parts available for a decent length of time, much like automobiles. So far, we've been pretty lucky, and even for the earliest SS games, there are relatively few obsolete, unobtainable parts, I just hope that specific LED boards aren't going to fall into that category in the future.

yeah growing pains. good to see JJP is trying hard to take care of the customers and resolving the design issues.

i have just played recently out on location, really fun, and when it was first talked about several years ago i just could not picture it. well i am so glad they changed my opinion and made a game that will be enjoyed by many for a long time.

those programmable tri color led's are (beautiful) but not perfected imo. some only 3 wires pwr gnd and data and data line is in series. if the first one dies game over none will work. i have wrecked a few just tinkering and it was always the first led to go every time. not sure what led JJP used but being fairly new cutting edge stuff well there are going to be speed bumps.

Isn't it more about the way they are wired on WOZ. I thought that on WOZ if one light board went bad it took out all of the lights on that series. Not sure, but thats what I thought I heard.