That's not about pinching pennies - it about being able to choose what you do with your money - if the phone company overcharges you $15, that's also called STEALING. This is (one of the) ways people become wealthy. Don't get ripped off. That $15 can become $20, $25, $50 down the road. Multiply it out, it adds up fast.

Joe I can't afford a CE... but do you have LEs in stock right now? I may buy now if I can get a game in the house in the next 3 weeks.

Did we ever find out what the extra special double-secret CE features are, beyond the armor and the topper?

I get the armor and the topper, and I guess the translite is different, plus being signed by Pat is pretty bad ass - weren't there some other "CE-exclusive" benefits though? Were those ever clarified?

(I don't have a DI yet) what's the plunger ball thing?

Gotcha - that's what I figured. thx!

(this is based on B/W games, but I believe JJP games are the same way) You'll need to rewire the power box to insert the outlet *after* the power switch. The outlet bypasses the switch normally, so you can plug in a tool and work on the game without it being on. But for mods, you want it in line with the switch. It's not a hard change, you just need to open the power box and snip and join a couple of wires.

now you may not want to do that to your beautiful DICE, so you can use a relay, or buy a power splitter that plugs into the molex connector coming out of the power box.

The molex connector I was talking about is the cube that's connecting to the main power for the game. You'd have to split off of that - I think it's 9 pins. (sorry, I'm not at home right now)

here's a link to a thread which discusses doing this mod. It is for adding a powered subwoofer, but the point about the service outlet is the same:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/poor-mans-sub-addition#post-465272

Sorry :/ there may be a connector out there that will help - you may not want to mess with your game anyway, probably better to find a pre-packaged solution. I'm sure there is one!