For me it is mostly the balance issue. Well and it would be nice if the sub a bit more pronounced when I play at lower volumes. I'm not even sure if the aftermarket kits offer sub volume adjustments.

There's a myriad of things I want before then. Including converting all my GI's and getting GIOCD. Just way more bang for the buck, I agree. New speakers is literally last on my list. I was thinking of even powder coating the metal side-rails before considering a speaker upgrade

isnt wpc sound mono?

It is. The problem is that my speakers are different sizes so the left sounds louder than the right and it's mildly obnoxious. So just getting the same sized speakers should fix that.

Nice! Well then, I shouldn't have a problem when I get to that point. It'll take me a while ColorDMD makes me drool but between it and the GI, I think I'd rather have the GI as I'm not often looking at the display when actively playing much anyway, so making the GI's awsome would give me a better overall playing experience.

Of course, eventually, I want all the things!!! Hehe.

Likewise... and they're made available on Comet (or I can find a proxy US address who could forward it onto me ) to get it sent to Australia. Yet to even pick up my RBION, but I'm excited about getting some LED OCD and mirror blade action happening.

When are you getting some more stock in, either Sys 11 or Stern, I need both.

Board is great.

For some reason, my computer running Win7 has trouble recognizing the board via the software.

yeah i had this problem. Windows kept automatically updating to a newer, non-working version of the driver. every time i plug in the USB cable, a little "updating" icon appears in the task tray, and i have to quickly click on it and find the cancel button before it manages to install the update.

Herg, I will try the newer software and report back!

does anyone have a Shadow profile they want to share? thanks!

Trek pro works with the ocd, and the color changing inserts look a shit ton better. The LE (especially the color changing) seems like theyre much smoother than the stock pro, now my lights are silky.

That's great news! I was worried the newer Stern machines with board-mounted LEDs may not be compatible. I was always under the impression they used their own form of special hardware that the OCD wouldn't be compatible with.

They are not compatible. The ocd board intercepts the lamp matrix. Newer LED sterns don't have a lamp matrix, they use a serial LED protocol.

Edit--my bad on the interpretation there..talking about board mounted leds as in the Pro model that are still driven through a matrix. Ignore me.

Huh.. I figured since they were using color changing LEDs in ST Pro, that they were using the same hardware as the LE games. I wonder why they went for the different hardware between the ST Pro and the LE, considering the look of the inserts is pretty close (if not identical?) to one-another.

shot some video of my CFTBL, Shadow, and BSD. 20 seconds or so of each to show what the LEDOCD does. BSD really needs the GI OCD
https://vimeo.com/93817989

The color changing led lights themselves may be the same. I think they had enough of the matrix to drive three lights in each of the color changing inserts of the trek pro. The color change looks much different in the pro till you hook up an ocd board imo.

Bummer. Was hoping to get one in NASCAR and F-14 before SFGE in June. I've set my notification on your site, so I'll hang on till then.

Old.

I am definitely gong to buy one of these for my LOTR when they are available again. Way too much ghosting on that machine and I can't bring myself to go back to incandescent bulbs completely.

Anyone have power issues with a Rottendog power driver board? just installed and all I got going is the DMD.

nevermind. solved!

Any update on when the Williams boards will be available. Was hoping to get some in the last batch but now been told it will be months Must be a big pre-order list.

So I signed up on the waiting list for GI OCD. You still are notifying people when they are ready right?

I would like to be notified by morse code when the DE boards are ready.

Okay up the price and build more

Would it save you effort to offer kits? Just throw a PCB and parts in a baggie. If you want to protect your source code, you could flash and lock the microcontroller before sending it.

If that wouldn't save you any effort, then no worries. Very glad you're doing this at all. It's a great service for the community.

That makes sense. I'll keep waiting.

Thanks for the reply to my email. I definitely want at least one (two, much more likely) of the WPC boards and cables when they next become available. I don't say that with the expectation that you will remember but only to encourage and thank you in advance. I wish I had gotten on the bandwagon sooner. Thank you for taking this on.

Well seriously I think they are too cheap for what they do and I for one would certainly pay more if it meant they are available on mass.

It's the best thing I've ever added to my machines. Just wish I could add gem to my Williams machines now. Been waiting months and now pre order list has gone so back to square one.

I'd buy the pair together if I could. I am having my TOTAN restored right now, and this is part of the plan.

Man, I feel you, managing pre-orders or guessing at investing in stock is tricky when you're just doing it as a side hobby. Your product rules though, you deserve to sell mass quantities.

Its funny, after seeing how freaking nice these boards truly work on a couple machines in person, I want to buy these boards BEFORE putting LEDs into my games because if I can't have the LEDs perform the way the LED OCD makes them, then I don't want LEDs. Put me down for two Sterns whenever theyre available. Also at least 1 WPC for my Funhouse I am working on. Ok and maybe another for my Bride of Pinbot....OK AND MAYBE TAXI ALSO...UGH! This is getting expensive......uh oh.

herg - Is there some quantity of orders you could reach that would let you just skip a lot of the hand work you do and have everything done up for you by the factory? I swear everyone needs this product even if they don't know it.

Hi Herg,
Is there a list somewhere of what machine-specific csv files are included with the tools, or available somewhere? I note the pdf help asks for people's custom files; have you gotten any (Sys11, in particular) to add?
The defaults seem good enough to make me lazy about typing the light list from the manual into a new file.

Thanks for such excellent product, and I'm looking forward to your future endeavors!

Thanks for your efforts Herg. I haven't purchased any yet but, intend on getting a setup for my STTNG when available again. Possibly LOTR at some point. Keep up the good works and thanks for keeping these affordable.

No idea how I missed as sent repeated emails and was at the stage in discussion you were working through preorder list and was told you were getting to me so it's sad to hear there were surplus available in the end.

Oh well I've signed up for email notifications now so fingers crossed. How many would you need to have made commercially to take the work load off? Just thinking if you got a price for say having 100 made and then took money to get them done like pinball companies do you wouldn't have to make any investment up front?

Another option might be to approach pinball life and see if they want to buy X quantity of each. Then they can keep them in stock without a hobbyist having to float that bill.

They've done that with other products.

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A while longer, those may take -- Yoda.

Comet Pinball sells them:

http://www.cometpinball.com/Stern-LED-OCD-Board-p/ledocdstern.htm

For clarification sake, would the OCD board work with the newer style led light boards - say in a Metallica premium?

Those already do full dimming ala OCD. It won't work with them, but it doesn't need to. That's how Metallica can fade the GI during Fade to Black for instance. Or how Star Trek does those color sweeps.