I’d just like to share my new mod for GOT (well any spike game) this is an under cabinet led kit that will change colour with the button on the lockdown bar. So when multiple players use different houses in a game, the machine will glow a different colour to represent you.

A big thanks to Allibaster for helping me by double check my work before I plugged anything in. I was pretty hesitant doing this on my own with my limited knowledge in electrical design. Nothing is permanent, its easy to remove. it’s essentially a “Y” jack that comes out of the cabinet node board and connects from the lockdown bar’s button to an led amp that runs a rgb 12v strip. The 12v power comes from the bill acceptor header and has a fuse inline just in case.

If anyone is interested in doing this mod let me know. I’ll show you hows it’s done. I might also make a couple kits up if there’s enough interest.

I was wondering if any other Spike games make use of the lockdown bar’s button like Game of Thrones? This would work for any game that has the button change colour during game play.

This video is longer and better shows the light mod in action

Bump for the Sunday crowd.

Are there any other New Spike games that utilize the button with different colours like GoT does. I’m curious what other games this would be useful on.

Are there any critiques that people have? I’d like some feedback, good or bad.

I just checked the owners manual for GotG and there’s no reason that this wouldn’t work with that game as well.

I’d like to thank Allibaster again for his help with developing this idea.

Things you need.

Soldering iron and solder.
Wire
Heat shrink
Wire cutters and exacto knife
5050 RGB light strip
RGB Amp.
1A in-line fuse
2X .100” 12 pin connector
.100” 6 pin connector
.100” Z connector
Lots of pins.

https://www.amazon.ca/Techinal-Signal-Amplifier-Repeater-Light/dp/B071JBQPCM/ref=sr_1_11

https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CP100-12-LR
https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CP100-06-LR
https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=MWWS100-2236
https://www.greatplainselectronics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=08-50-0114
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We’re going to make a “Y” jack for the cabinet node board’s connector C7 this controls the lockdown bar button and light. We’re also going to connect power to the dollar bill acceptor header C9 to get the 12v that we need.
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The original C7 connector in the game will plug into one side of our new “Y” jack through the “Z” connector. The other side of the “Y” jack will run into the RGB amplifier. Make sure to solder the wires at each connection and into each pin. Cover all of the connections in heat shrink.

Pay attention to the wire order in the C7 connector, because it is a different order then an RGB strip. On the 12pin connector pin#1 is the led +5v, pin#2-4 are RGB signal, and pins #5 + #8 are the button switch wires.

Connector C9 only needs 2 wires, pin# 4+6 for 12v and ground. This runs into the 1A fuse and then into the RGB amplifier.

I pulled the cover off of the RGB amp exposing the circuit board so that I could solder the wires directly onto the pads, rather then plugging things together. Make sure to cover everything again in heat shrink so that it doesn’t short out.
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The wire diagram looks like this.
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I ran the wire out from the RGB amplifier under the cabinet speaker, so that no drilling is required. To solder onto the light strip you will need to cut back the rubber weatherproofing on the seam that you cut it on. My 5050 LED light strip is divided into 3 sections that are separated by about 2’ of wire between each one. The first section is about 16” long and placed along the front of the cabinet about 6” back. The second section is about 20” and runs under the cabinet down the center toward the back. The third section runs up the center of the backbox and is about 20” long.

As long as you don’t exceed the power output of the dollar bill acceptor, then you could also add in RGB lights for the flipper buttons or speakers grills to match.

Correct. C7 has it. +5v, red, green, blue.
Led strip has it as +12v, green, red, blue.

I’m quite sure that this could be done, you could also connect it to your speaker lights to have an alll in one solution. The only drawback Is the 12V power supply of that node board. I haven’t seen anything posted by stern, but I looked into the power requirements for some dollar bill acceptors and it looks like they can draw up to 1.5A when a bill jams, but that for a short time, not continues use. Looking at continuous power consumption of a DBA you can easily run 4-5’ of 5050RGB light strips. I would not be to concerned to add flipper buttons and speaker lights to this setup. But to be safer with kits that have a lot of lights it might be wiser to get the 12V from the the backbox power distribution board. I’d assume that would be a better supply point.

The output of the led amp would just need to be split with wires going to each point.

Here’s the mod in action with the new game of Thrones code. Sorry for the blurry video, but you can get the idea of how it looks.

I would think so. I don’t have that game, but as long as the cabinet node board is the same, then it should work for you.

This is fantastic, I’m glad that someone else found this idea useful. I don’t think that you would need a fuse since you’ve got an external power source for the 12v.

Looks great.