The countdown is for Orion’s Belt and orders will be able to be placed this Wed 9/19!! Check out TWIP www.thisweekinpinball.com for the official annoucement. The featured article that morning will explain the details of the product is and let you know the time they will go on sale that day.

That’s about all I can say for now and they will likely sell out really quickly. So stay tuned to TWIP and subscribe or follow them for this Wednesday’s story.

I’m so excited for you all to get to see them in action!!

Scott
Pin Stadium
www.pinstadium.com

I recommend the UV+Glow for sure and will be the same setup I am going to run this week on DPLE myself. I hope this helps you.

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Be sure to check out TWIP www.thisweekinpinball.com early morning Wednesday (9/19) for the official full coverage announcement of Orion's Belt. There will be detailed explanations and footage of it in action along with the time that day for when everyone can start placing orders. The first group is going to sell out fast!! So be sure to tune in as you won't want to miss it. As long as you are able to place an order on our website then it means there are still spots available for them. Stay tuned folks.......

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Haha yes it’s all in good fun and just making it interesting. I think you will be very pleased with what is to come.

Sure thing and glad to help. This was something that was just recently asked earlier actually. This following post and ones after it should help:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-pin-stadium-lights-official-announcement/page/55#post-4583751

The other colored flashers have been available but just not ordered as often as the UV+Glow since is has been a huge hit. So those were made in smaller batches once there were enough orders to do a small run of them. As a result they take a few extra weeks to prepare and make versus shipping same day or close to it with the UV+Glow.

I will say that there have recently been tons of request for more flashers options and expandability in addition to the UV+Glow too.

I hope that clarifies things better.

I do appreciate your feedback as always and yes I am just having fun with it and by no means have any intentions other than that. The fancy ads and videos are me just doing what I can in Photoshop and video editors (but now I use an great product called Affinity). Been trying to hone my skills in that arena because I enjoy it, but have no career in it by any means.

I do mention that things may sell rather quickly for the fact that there are a lot of kits and customers out there that I feel will really love this complimentary product for them. Many may not know the numbers and how busy it has been (doing 12-15 hour days), so just a small percentage of those ordering will make things go pretty rapidly.
It is a little intimidating, but I am prepared and have learned a lot with production and quality control.

Last year that Pin Stadium pre-order was interesting as there were like 100 of them that sold out in a few short weeks with 0 customers prior and just wishful supporters which was awesome and now we are into the thousands which I never thought would ever have happened. Especially considering the fact that when I made the Pin Stadiums, they had no name and I never had any intention of selling them. It was just a solution I felt I needed for my collection.

It was an unknown product even at it's initial launch and purely based upon trust which everything is in my opinion and it is still that way always. The good news is that I have had customers come over to see Orion's Belt working and in action to see it and they really enjoyed what has been created. Asking when they can get it and asking to get on the list etc. That is always a good feeling.

The Pin Stadium products are developed by the community with their feedback/ideas. Behind the scenes I have been compiling hundreds of requests and comments and discussed this with many about what their vision of the next line of products should be. The way I look at it is I am just putting it all together in a nice package for you all to enjoy. I want to make you all happy. It is still just Scott at Pin Stadium doing his thing (building each one and designing etc) and I hope this explains things better from this end. It's all good and thank you everyone for what you have done.

It has been a ton of work and I am looking forward to hearing what you think when this launches. Nothing has changed other than just getting excited for the new release that has taken all year (and then some) to put together.

Scott
Pin Stadium
www.pinstadium.com

A little clarification to MET owners out there. I have posted up some images of where to trigger the flashers from on Sparky.

The image showed two arrows, which means you can connect the Pin Stadium flasher cables to either of those bulbs but not both of them.

There has been an influx of Metallica owners very recently installing these and this questions came up. I figured I would address it here to clarify as I could see what I may have been confusing. Here is a much clearer picture that will help to eliminate any confusion.

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So basically either one of those flashers will work as they are synchronous for all of the Sparky events. It does not have to be the left one or the right one, whichever you choose is fine.

Very nice looking and I think the picture turned out rather well. It’s hard to capture but you did a great job!! I am glad that you had a chance to see them on DI too.

I really appreciate you posting this up as you have really covered a large era from Dialed In to The Getaway, how cool!!

As far as the flasher location I have not personally installed them on that game but maybe you will be able to find one that isn’t gong off as much. A good method of locating flashers is to go on the Settings/Lamps/Flashers menu to see if you can find a better spot to test.

In order to hook up to slingshot coils you would have to put a resistor in-line to drop it down to a safe voltage or it will cook the PS lights. It needs to be between 4v-24v.

It's in the works as we speak and will be an add-on eventually to the existing Pin Stadiums. You can feel safe to get a set and know that I am working hard on it. Currently testing out with some new advancements in the lighting industry that may very well work.

Tomorrow morning on TWIP www.thisweekinpinball.com will be having the full release details, what it is, and they let you know what time ordering starts on the Pin Stadium website also.

Yes any 4v-24v source that is not on a switch matrix.

I love your determination!! If I was in a game show I should surely choose you. . That’s not it but love the guessing.

As far as the diffuser, I am working with on that.

“This was something that was asked earlier actually. This following post and ones after it should help:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-pin-stadium-lights-official-announcement/page/55#post-4583751 “

Thanks for the update! I watched a few videos of the game and I think that the stand up target’s flasher on the left side of the playfield could be cool too!!

More than happy to clarify and answers questions. Sorry for the delay and I will definitely be able to explain this in more detail for you guys than a video ever can. Honestly it probably deserves a stream and walk-through to get all of the features and functions across but I will do my very best.

It is a completely different set of lights that has a highly advanced Flasher Module which is dedicated to providing unlimited colors of flashers.

So picture Pin Stadium but way more advanced and it’s sole focus is to be a complete dedicated flasher system that compliments the Pin Stadiums results of GI improvement. It mounts stealth just under the Pin Stadium light bar so it's now visible and is very slim/low-profile using the HD Magna-Mounts. It is controlled by the Pin Stadium app, but will show up as a different device. I will post a screenshot of how it would appear and be labeled. So basically for those that wanted even more from the flasher system and more flexibility with colors, this is that and then some.

The 5 buttons on the Flasher Module allow you to customer each of the 4 different trigger points for the flashers.

Simply tap the "Preview/Programming button" to start the programming and you will be able to dial in the 4 different flasher colors. Once you press that button the Orion's Belt flasher module is ready for you to program the 4 buttons which represent the 4 flasher trigger points you have connected on the machine (just like you would connect Pin Stadium to the back of the bulbs but you have 4 total).

Buttons 1-4 (The 4 flashers triggers)

Once in programming mode you will then open the Pin Stadium app, connect to the Orion's Belt Wifi device then select the colored flasher you want by using the color wheel. You select the color you want "Flasher 1" to be and then adjust the brightness level too. Once you have that done then you will press desired button (1,2,3,4) to that setting. Just like setting a radio station to a preset button. Then you do that for the next 3 buttons, set the color and brightness, and then onto the remaining.

So you have unlimited control of what each of those 4 flasher colors will be and also how bright they will be too. I hope that helps to explain that portion a little bit better. I will of course be continually posting up more details and pics too.

Scott
Pin Stadium
www.pinstadium.com

Haha! Yes, I am doing my very best to make sure that it is all covered and explained, past the videos which highlight the features.

The Pin Stadium are as they have always been, they do the GI and have the UV+Glow flasher option. They are a standalone system and nothing has changed with those, they are the same quality and performance as they always have been, pricing etc.

Where the Pin Stadiums left off was in the flasher category and that is where Orion's Belt picks up from. Orion's Belt mounts just under the Pin Stadiums using the HD Magna-Mounts and it is composed of two light bars that have the Phantom ribbon cables coming from them that then leads into a flasher module. That Flasher Module's sole purpose is to provide flasher capabilities for your machine. Onboard the Flasher Module is where the 5 buttons are located for the additionally programming capability.

1 of those buttons is pressed to initiate programming, then the other 4 are for the flasher triggers which are the wires you connect to the flasher bulbs on the machine. Orion's light bars are much more slimline and low profile and since they mount under the Pin Stadiums light bars (same length) you do not see them whatsoever from the player's perspective. The Invisi-Shield is custom molded into the light bar and blocks visibility from the side view so that none of the lighting comes out of the machine and into your eyes if you were to see the pinball machine from a distance with them installed. On the light bar is a set up highly re-engineered RGB and also White LED lights that are side firing across the playfield, which gives you full coverage flasher lighting.

You connect them and install them just like you do the Pin Stadiums, but instead of using 2 cables to hook up to the bulbs you have 4 of them. So the install is the same and very easy, then you connect to them Wifi signal from Orion's Belt then add it to your Wifi network. I hope this helps to explain it much better.

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I will be posting up pictures to show this better and also show you the comparison in size of the Pin Stadium GI Module to the Orion's Belt Flasher Module. It is the same with but a little longer as it is a lot more involved. There was a slot of onboard software programming to do this time and I did make it so that the firmware can be updated too as enhancements/updates come along to improve it!!! Don't worry I released it with 1.0 code (literally) absolutely complete, but I like to tinker and add more things as customers make suggestions and I dream so there is much room for even more expand-ability.

Orion's Belt is the additional expansion product to anyone that has the Pin Stadiums and wants to have unlimited flasher colors/controls and one heck of a light show. It is literally a complete flasher system for your pinball machine. As always it will have to been seen to be believed just like the Pin Stadiums initially. In the meantime will do my very best to verbally explain and to post up videos and pics to properly demonstrate the full capabilities of what they do. The best way to explain the results if you have installed Pin Stadiums for the first time on your machine and see the dramatic difference it makes, then take that same level of positive experience into the world of flashers and you will not be disappointed.

Trying to respond as fast as possible as it's extremely busy with the release/orders/questions, I hope you understand and I will address everything and explain it all in detail as questions come up.

So there are two sets of light bars on each side (if you have Orion's Belt and Pin Stadium), but the good news is that Orion's Belt can be folded on the back of the Pin Stadiums during playfield maintenance which makes just one unit on each side. So nothing different than before since they will be attached during that period since the Magna-Mounts allows this easy method.

It is not available that way as the design of the Orion's Belt is side firing for the purpose of results in contrast with the Pin Stadiums so make a proper visual impact (solid uniform coverage of the playfield) and the fact that since you will have have 4 flashers triggering Orion's Belt it will reflect off the playfield into your eyes very very often which it does not do in its current form and mounting style. Believe me I tried it both ways. This way it is clean, stock, and very factory looking with way better coverage.

The UV+Glow is dedicated to just the Pin Stadium product, correct and Orion's Belt is well beyond just having a few flasher options and colors. The LED's themselves and PCB board, all of that I custom engineered and designed with nothing but the highest quality. They are custom manufactured just for this application by Pin Stadium. The visual results will definitely speak for themselves.

Always glad to help you and thank you for all of your support as always too!!

I will definitely do that for you and I am working like a mad man handling orders coming in from today and also in production building them as we speak. I literally can't wait for these to get into everyone's hand so they can be seen. It reminds me exactly of the introduction of the Pin Stadiums and how they made an impact in their own realm.

Thank you everyone for your out of this world and amazing support that words cannot describe. I love what I am doing and feel confident that you will see this in Orion's Belt. After all it is a creation of the community of pinball customers that have made suggestions for features and designed and provided feedback as to what they want next from Pin Stadium.

Love it and is truly exciting!!!

I do have some footage I am putting together from what was in the video and will be filming much more too! I remember your RZ and what the Pin Stadiums did for it last year, so cool!! Yes this is really going to step that machine over the top. Here is the video in case you didn't see it, and the footage is around 1:50 in:

Many have emailed and asked so I will post it up here too to help elaborate on it. When ordering Orion's Belt you do not need to order Invisi-Shields for it as they are already built into the design.

Also the question about being able to choose from ALL of the White color spectrum (Warm, Sunlight, Natural, Cool, and X-Treme White) within the app with the Orion's Belt has come up tons understandably since this a something very new that you can do.

When you are setting up the flasher colors in the app, you will go through the programming sequence of pressing Button #1 on the Flasher module "Preview/Programming" button. Then in the app you will adjust the set the White brightness slider to the % that you desire, then from that point you will dial it in with the color wheel and you can even use the granular RGB control on the top left to fine tune.

Remember that Warm, Sunlight, Natural, Cool, and X-Treme White all come from a small mix of the Blue, Yellow, Red, Orange. Once done you simply tap the desired button ( You can choose any of the 4 buttons you desire depending on which flasher you want to trigger it) to "Save" it and done!!

Not a problem, I was trying to address the video with him as I was unsure if he has seen it. Very busy day and I am working on getting all of this to you. Getting pics of the Flasher module as we speak.

We all know that it is just me at the Pin Stadium factory (house) working and I am just like everyone else for sure. I will get all of the questions answered and work to demonstrate the features etc in a simple to understand example. That's what this needs, keep it simple agreed!!

Hey it’s all good and offense is never taken by any means. It’s my job to explain what I have created and to do the very best job possible !!!

Here is a picture of them compared to the Pin Stadiums and it shows the size comparison, the Phantom cables. But most importantly it shows the 5 buttons and where they are located. I labeled them to show the buttons that allow for the presets and customizations of each flashers. Simply Press "Program/Preview" to initiate the sequence for using the app to customize each one.

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Thank you for the feedback and I will absolutely do my very best to explain it to you.

I totally understand that there are many questions and I welcome that. It’s completely understandable as there is a lot of technology behind it and it’s something that has never been done before. Makes total sense and in the same instance it may appear to be more complicated that what it is. I get what you mean, as I went through the same thing with introducing the Pin Stadiums to everyone.

Orion’s Belt is a complete flasher system that is designed in a very similar fashion as the Pin Stadiums from a structure perspective and layout, length, quality etc. It is slimmer and lower profile, and mounts with the Magna-Mounts just under the Pin Stadium light bars with built in Invisi-Shields.

It is dedicated to solely being a flasher system for pinball machines. In comparison Pin Stadium’s focal form function is to provide excellent GI playfield lighting. It does have the awesome UV+Glow flasher which is a great accent piece which is dedicated to that product.

So with that said Orion’s Belt picks up where Pin Stadium left off in the realm of flashers with unlimited expansion of flasher colors and brightness control of each of those.

Orion’s Belt connects to 4 flashers of your choice on your machine. It’s the same style wiring and connection method as the Pin Stadiums but these connections are made to flashers. Once you have made the physical connection to all 4 of them, then with your mobile device you download the Pin Stadium app and then connect to the WiFi signal that the Flasher Module generates and add it to the app.

From that point you now have complete control of Orion’s Belt with the app interface we are all very familiar with when using Pin Stadiums. Next you will press the “Program/Preview” button (see image in the post above for this reference) to allow Orion’s Belt to accept the color and brightness levels for each of the flashers.

The steps are:

1. Press the Program/Preview button
2. Move your finger to the desired color on the color wheel in the Pin Stadium app.
3. Press the desired Flasher Button (any of them from 1-4) you want to program that setting to. So let’s say Button #1 and then it saves that setting for that button. Which means on if the 4 connections you made is not going to flash that color when that particular flasher on that machine is triggered. However the flasher flashes on the machine, Orion’s Belt will sync to that.

4. Repeatedly steps 1-3 for the remaining Buttons 2,3,4

5. You are all done, and it’s time to play the machine and watch the impressive light show!

Absolutely I will do that no problem. I am going to do a compete walkthrough and demonstration for you guys.

Yes they will be there and at Expo too. Robert Berk just called he wants several of them on his machines that will be in the Pin Stadiums booth and I will be bringing mine too. They will also be displayed and explained in detail at the Pin Stadium seminar at Expo.

So there will be about 15-20 machines there with the Pin Stadium/Orion’s Belt combo.

For Pincinnati I am bringing 6 games there also.

Yep you got it! They plug into the service port so you will just need a 2 way splitter for the outlet or a small power strip. They have their own Magna-Mount that goes just below the Pin Stadium.

Here are the Pin Stadiums (not Orion’s Belt) in action on TWD in case you have not see this video:

Feel free to email me directly too with any questions. More than happy to help you.

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You are so very welcome and thank you for your order as I just saw it come in. I just sent you a confirmation email.

Absolutely !!!

They come with them automatically so you will have everything you need. I double checked your order and you are good to go!

Looking like a super fancy setup there delt31 Thanks for posting those pretty machines up and the Pin Stadiums look great too!!

Feel free to share your impression of them since you just saw Orion’s Belt in person. Many would appreciate hearing the first feedback on these for sure.

Yes you can definitely have it as a stand alone too! They are two separate products that do two different jobs extremely well. They both work with the Pin Stadium app too. When combined it’s the ultimate combo with some rather impressive results.

I look forward to hearing your impression of them. Please post it up here when they arrive as we would all love to hear from you! Sounds like you have quite the collection over there.

I was referring to underlord and his first set of Pin Stadiums he just purchased for his TWD.

The product pics and walk through are going to come from me for sure.

So no need to wait for the customers that have already placed the orders for Orion’s Belt.

As mentioned in the previous posts I will surely get all of this to you. I have posted up several pics with detailed information and will continue that also.

Pictures are worth a thousand words but a stream is worth a million more so you can see and hear me walk you through it all the way too.

This will be happening this coming this Tuesday 8/25 at 8pm EST as SDTM will be streaming Deadpool LE live from the Pin Stadium factory with Orion’s Belt installed. Be sure to check that out also.

Once you see it I am confident that it will make total sense to you as it’s not as complicated as it may sound. It’s just the fact that it has all of these features packed together and that may be what is making it sound complex.

I think then you will be like “okay it’s Pin Stadium technology and installation/hardware just like what I know and have done but in a smaller form factor dimensionally but same length as the other light bars that mounts under the Pin Stadium with Magna Mounts too. The Invisi-Shields are built in and it’s dedicated to flashers instead of GI”.

In the meantime I will continue to answer questions here and post up things the best I can. No worries I’ve got you covered.

Feel free to ring me up tomorrow (well technically today as it’s 3am and I am getting up now processing orders and doing production as we speak) let’s talk if that helps too.

Here is a picture I just took of them on IMDN showing that they use/share the same cable clamps as the Pin Stadiums in the back too!

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Here is wiring harness with just two more pairs of wires than what you are used to for super easy install.

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I have consolidated the pics I have posted so far so it’s easier for everyone to see and not have to search through previous posts.

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I hope this helps and more to come too!

Just working on getting pics up of everything and not waiting for 9/25 for the stream so 4 days away. That will give you all full coverage and more detail. Also doing a big interview with a popular podcast even prior to that and will delver even deeper in things too!! More pics and content coming!

Yes the stream is the video and even better live raw video, and correct 9/25 and it will be at 8pm EST too. Pics coming in the meantime too!!

Here are pics of Orion’s Belt installed on Iron Maiden. I took a bunch of different angles so that you can see it and also how it mounts very stealth under the Pin Stadiums. This is the same machine that was in the video too. Enjoy!!!

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Here is one at a distance too.

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And another of them removed.

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Sure thing glad to help. Since you are familiar with Pin Stadiums and what they do for GI, then take that and imagine a Pin Stadium product that focuses solely on flasher, with unlimited colors, brightness control, multiple flasher colors all in one product. It's job is to give you some major wow and dazzle by igniting the playfield like no other. The best way to compare it is the feeling you get when you turn your Pin Stadiums Off and then On and you notice the crazy difference. This is the same intense experience but in the flasher realm.

These PCB and the LEDs in Orion's Belt are very advanced high quality and performance LED's that I designed and are spec'd just for this application. These had to be powerful in order to have the wow factor needed when sitting alongside the powerful Pin Stadiums. Of course one of the coolest features is the ability to be able to control them with the app and designate the colors and brightness for each flasher trigger. They are side firing and you don't see the light source but you will absolutely see the results because they are covering the entire playfield with even coloring. They are facing the same direction of the GI's on the Pin Stadiums. That little change in itself is extremely pleasing with results. Here is a scenario example:

Flasher #1: Red at 100% Brightness
Flasher #2: Gold at 63% Brightness
Flasher #3: Turquoise 78%
Flasher #4: Green 95%

Yes as with anything this may not be for everyone, but based upon the orders coming in from existing Pin Stadium customers it has been a huge huge hit and really hits at home with them as behind the scenes these were the feature I received endless requests about. The response was even better than I could have ever anticipated. I remember chuckwurt asking if there was an option for green flashers on GOT and a way to adjust brightness at the beginning of all of this. Now you got it! Can't wait for the stream to show these to everyone live and in action. Woohoo!!

I have to say that I am so very thankful for you all that have supported Pin Stadium and I REALLY appreciate the input and suggestions on this that allowed it to be more than what was ever expected. You guys are amazing and now I better get to work building these as I can't see the light of day right now. No complaints here though!

Yes very clear and concise. Thank you chuckwurt for taking the time to post this up for everyone!

It is crazy how things change, because just when I thought that one flasher color was enough, then everyone asked for more and kept asking. Finally it was the majority that wanted more flashers options since the UV+Glow was and is such a hit. But like anything, we want options. I am always willing to do my best to please and then try to step it up a notch.

It's funny because back then I agreed it would have been overkill too because of no adjust-ability of brightness (remember thinking the same thing) and then seeing the light source of the flasher going off all the time full blast facing downward on the playfield into your eyes would have been a nightmare. We now have full brightness control of each and every one, and then infinite colors not just limited to Red,Green, Blue, but every color in the world and then every type of white too (Warm, Sunlight, Natural, Cool, and X-Treme White) and on top of that it is configurable for each flasher source. Even better like estrader said you have no idea where it is coming from and is factory Stealth with the Side-Firing mount.

It is always interesting to see how things pan out and I really enjoy doing this. Especially listening to the customers and taking that input and turning it into a high performing, functional product. Love it guys!!

Here is full screen footage of Orion's Belt in action from the original promo video. Had many requests for this so I will post it up here so you can get a better visual of it:

Haha, yes it is quite the sight to see and really brings Maiden alive even more! Fully adjustable brightness so you can tone it down or crank it up just to your liking.

Awesome I am glad that I was able to help explain that better for you and help you to gain an understanding of what Orion's Belt is all about. Basically, combine it with a Pin Stadium kit and you are going to have the best light show possible. Even better is you don't have any limitations since you can adjust them to any color and brightness, and you can change them on the fly to make the flasher colors match appropriately with the theme of the modes so they look superb with the playfield artwork too.

He did a great job!! We know because in his SDTM tutorial streams he makes understanding rules so easy to grasp and explains them very straight forward.

Yes that is correct. They can run standalone or in combination with the Pin Stadiums! Your choice...

I know you and your collection and how you like your games. I cannot wait for you to post up your impression of these!!

Here are the settings and flasher bulb connections in the app for Iron Maiden in the video:

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#1 Left “Revive” spinner: Blue 100% Brightness

#2 Sarcophagus Lock: Red 100% Brightness

#3 Left Lightning Bolt: X-Treme White 85% Brightness

#4 Right Lightning Bolt: Green 95% Brightness
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I like how you think!! That was a challenge for me so that colors would not merge and is one of the many reasons that I had to go past the hardware and into software to make Orion's Belt. That would have been the case (the blend of colors) which we do not want as it would have defeated the purpose of individual control settings/brightness of each of the flasher colors. How do I know this? Because it happened during this last year of development on them originally and drove me nuts.

The onboard software programming makes it so that will not happen and each flasher will retain it's original color value and brightness you set and events would be sequenced properly. If not then you would have a messy array of colors just bleeding everywhere like you said.

When the Orion's Belt flashes, each event is very pronounced and very distinct. It's powerful!

Great question you had KingBW !!!

Aside from the excellent light show, the advantage from a player's perspective let's say with Trent Augenstein from Tilt Amusements, he said that he uses the flasher triggers to help him know what is going on when he is playing so that he doesn't have to look up at the screen or to a certain spot of the playfield to see if he made the shot. His eyes are already onto the next plan mapping out what he will do next versus losing track of the ball to look at something he already completed or that is about to occur. It was interesting to hear this from him and how he uses the flasher triggers, now I do the same but I don't play anywhere near as good as Trent but it helps my game play dramatically. He actually requested that the flashers be hooked up at Pinburgh for that purpose

The specific example he gave me is that he will use the flasher trigger from the scoop on MET and knows when he sees the flash the ball is a successful hit or is getting ready for a kickout during multiball which is super helpful. As you know there is so much going on in that scenario that it's one less thing, and a major thing at that you don't have to worry about. I hope this helps explain a bit better and that you see that you can apply that to any game scenario. My scores on Iron Maiden are significantly more consistent and higher as a result of me being able to be more laser focused on exactly what I need to do. Pretty cool, thanks Trent!!

Things have really picked up even more now that Orion's Belt is explained and understood thanks chuckwurt

With that has come high volumes of messages and emails asking about shipping time and if this is a Pre-Order etc. I am doing my very best to answer these questions as fast as I can. So I will post it up here too. This is NOT a Pre-Order as Orion's Belt is literally ON THE LINE and is in full production along with the Pin Stadiums. No delays, full steam ahead!!!

Things are going smooth and shipping time is still 4-6 weeks for Orion's Belt as mentioned initially. Pin Stadiums are still in stock too for immediate shipment just in case anyone is wondering about that also.

There are still spots left for Orion's Belt from this first initial run if you want to get a set. Production is going so well that you may even be able to get them at Expo, but can't make any promises. I have no problem bringing them there if that is the case as I know many are anxious to get them.

Hey good to hear from you!! Orion’s Belt is a full playfield coverage WiFi controllable system with 4 different flasher colors you choose with the color wheel on the app. Each trigger will power the lights to that exact color and brightness that you choose.

I hope that helps.

The lights run the length of the playfield like the Pin Stadiums but dedicated to flashers. They are the same length but it has a smaller slimline form factor with massive power that mounts discreetly below the Pin Stadiums. You can run Orion’s Belt independently too.

This is specifically for the Pin Stadium line of products for flasher colors for the playfield. Chris at Rock Customs has some awesome undercab and backbox lighting that is high quality: http://www.rockcustompinball.com/ He is a great guy and stands behind his product!

Update on things for the SDTM DPLE stream at the Pin Stadium factory with MC chuckwurt . It is now officially scheduled for Thursday 9/27 at 8PM EST

Deadpool will have Orion’s Belt on it for display!!

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Glad to help you !! This is the best spot I found so far. When the spinner rips!!

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The spinner the UV+Glow is connected to is the Wolverine “Team Up” spinner (See Green Arrow in pic below). Every time you hit that shot, “Boom”! I hope that helps. Let me know what you think of that location.

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Yes it was the first to arrive number #001, haha! Just kidding, yikes I corrected it to 9/27 thanks for that correction.

I am posting this up for someone to try to decode this and see who possesses the masterful skill of decryption. I have been doing this with the first 50 Premier group of Orion's Belt orders (it tells them their production #) and figured this would be something you could all enjoy doing too.

This is good for a $25 gift card if you get the correct answer!!

Please message me here if you think you have deciphered the mystery code of this security bit so that I know to take it down. Also PM me to confirm what code you get too. This should be fun!

It does look like a guitar pick actually haha! Gets you into the concert on Thursday for sure

Bingo!!!! You killed it man, great job on decoding that one. Impressive!!! Your Gift Card code for $25 was just sent.

It's on boys and girls. chuckwurt will be in the house (literally). You will definitely need your 3D glasses for this one!!!

https://www.twitch.tv/sdtmpinball

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Thank you and I appreciated the excitement about them! I remember your first review/install video of the Pin Stadium and I still use that regularly to show customers how to install them. That video was so well put together and impressive.

Orion's Belt is exactly what you wanted then for sure!

Excellent questions!! That was something I originally thought of too, as far as trying to make the existing Pin Stadiums do both. As you will see I quickly answered my own question too

The Pin Stadium lights are specifically designed and dedicated to provide GI illumination to the playfield. If you attempt to use them as flashers then you cause the playfield illumination to go off and to have to start the flashers. Which effectively negates the main benefit to what they provide. As a result the playfield illumination turns off and you lose track of the ball while get blasted with flashers! Not a sacrifice I was willing to accept. Believe me I tried and it was an absolute nightmare.

That loss of illumination is intense once you see a game with Pin Stadiums Off and then On. It literally looks like you turned the GI “Off” on the game completely in most instances. Anyone that owns them can attest to this and also losing track of the ball is the biggest thing you don’t want to do.

I also tried another flasher method where I kept just the white lights on while pulsing the colored LEDs only. The result was that you sacrifice the colors settings you have dialed in on the app which ruins the point of even having the app to customize the playfield illumination/colors.

Then in addition to that I tried dimming the white lights because when I was flashing the Red, Greens, and Blues in the previous scenario they were hardly making any impact relative to the illumination even just the white Pin Stadium GI lights alone were providing. You literally couldn’t see this light flash if at all (I had to bend down and look directly at the lights to see if they were coming on) and it did nothing noticeable (explained in detail further down as to why).

So dimming the white made them a “little” more pronounced (and I mean very little) but again you lose playfield illumination and ball tracking, mess with your app settings etc. So no go there either for sure. I would never want to sacrifice gameplay and ball tracking for a light show whenever possible.

Also RGB lights are 1/3 the size of a full blown SMD chip as they are mini clustered diodes on one chip versus being dedicated to that color like a White would be. Even if you separate them into larger chips the same size of the white you have an unmerged mess of lights on the playfield, less LEDs overall too. Plus to make i worse you literally see the Red, Green, and Blue shining on the playfield like a Christmas tree. Yikes!!! How do I know? Because it happened to me during the prototyping and design process. It was a nightmare and eye sore needless to say.

In these scenarios mentioned above I was also effectively taking out the very most important color spectrum (White) for visibility of the grouping of the Pin Stadium lights.

It is important to note that White is THE “very” most important part of what allows you to have the full spectrum color ability for the Orion’s Belts flashers and gives the highly impressive effects/features of the product by far. With white you can now use the color wheel in the Pin Stadium app to dial in those flashers to ANY color that you would like.

Without “White” you go from just 3 flasher colors (Red, Green, and Blue) to 16 million colors flasher options by adding that alone. It’s HUGE and gives you unlimited possibilities! Then add the fact the the custom Flasher Module allows individual brightness control of each one!!!

So this is why the Orion’s Belt is a separate standalone complimenting product and mounts under the Pin Stadiums with very stealth mount and form factor while having built in Invisi-Shields!! The LED PCB and the chips on Orion’s are completely custom and massively upgraded that overcome all of these issues to handle more power, delivery high quality driven results with true colors, and to perfectly compliment the Pin Stadiums GI lighting by expanding that product even further past where it already is.

Additionally I am giving customers the option to use Orion’s Belt as a standalone product if they want instead of buying both. Which is always nice to options!

However the combination of the two together is outstanding results!!

I hope this better answers these questions and explains a small portion of what I did over the last year in designing these. I trust that when a customer installs these that the results will speak more than words can ever say.

There’s a lot more to this that I could elaborate on and am happy to as questions come up. I love talking about these things and getting chance to explain better. But I will spare you all for now.

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Scott
Pin Stadium
www.pinstadium.com

Yes, that brings up and excellent point too with expanded controls and versatility on Orion's Belt that was taken into consideration as it gives you full control of the flashers brightness on each individual trigger so that you can balance them to exactly the correct level of brightness you would like. In addition you can color code or color match the flasher to make identification of that shot even easier.

This way you don't have to look back at what you just shot to see if that flasher on the playfield is telling you if you made the shot or not. You can continue to follow the ball and plan your next shot. Or in the reverse sense if there is a shot to be made that is flashing you know where you have to go without looking away to that flasher or even at the display. I took input from competitive players specifically for this purpose.

This is something that Trent from Tilt Amusements specifically uses when he plays. It makes much more sense to not look back or try to look away but to keep progressing forward staying focused on ball position. I never thought of it as I am a casual player.

And even better you still can see the original integrity of the flashers too from the machine as the factory intended if you like, as this is due to the side fire design of the Orion's Belt that evenly coats the playfield so it does not over power by distracting you with seeing the light source of Orion. Thanks Trent for that simple yet very important input.

I have to ageee that Pin Stadiums and Orion’s Belt are not for everyone but for those that are looking to improve their machines by expanding their experience with better visibility/playability more features/functions, easy non-invasive install, ability to move it to any machine, and one heck of a light show that you control to your exact color and brightness preferences in all aspects then these are definitely for you.

Sounds like you are close. Just to clarify, tThey are two different products, Pin Stadium is one product and then the Orion's Belt is the second and it mounts just below the existing Pin Stadium you have. Orion's Belt will gives you 4 additional flashers, so 5 total (if you were to count the one on the Pin Stadium). On Orion's Belt each of those 4 flashers you have unlimited flasher color options. You adjust each of them to any color and brightness using the app. They are side firing (facing across the playfield) with Invisi-Shield built in, so they will evenly cast across they playfield and you don't see the source of the light firing.

Yes a blast from the past and I totally remember our conversation early in the development/release of the Pin Stadiums and the GI integration you spoke about was great earlier feedback. You asked and many others asked too, and man it was worth figuring that one out

During the development of Orion’s Belt I tinkered with the idea and made it in replacement of the UV+Glow to see how that was. What I found was the since Orion’s Belt has 4 triggers points the flashers are going off much more often as you hit features on the machine. Work that said the down firing design positioning came to be too much and very distracting because you are regularly seeing the source of the lights reflecting in to your eyes of the playfield.

As a result I decided it needed to be much more stealth and have a factory appeare that did not reveal the light source so it magically blended with the machine from a visual standpoint. Also I didn’t want to take away from one of the coolest features of the Pin Stadium’s which is the UV+Glow and make people choose.

So then this was the reasoning for making it a separate system for Orion’s Belt that was a great addition to compliment the Pin Stadiums my mounting them just below them where they are hidden and are side firing. So the Orion’s Belt lights face the same direction as the Pin Stadiums GI (trying to help make it so it’s easy to visualize the arrangement).

That side firing mounting method makes the light source invisible and it lets you cast the very HD quality color over the entire playfield.

So then to answer the question about hooking them up to the GI. The Orion’s Belt has a Flasher Module instead of a GI Module. How that works different is that I have coded into it to look for events that are sequenced as to not merge colors or confuse feature flashes. So if you hooked up the to the GI, the Orion’s would come on but they are going to stay on the entire time until they go off and while they are off something else needs a to be triggered to active them.

I will give you a scenario and short answer at the same time. They will trigger from GI bulb but not behave properly to be interactive with the exception of when you trigger them let’s say in Iron Maiden Premium/Le.

Since that model of IMDN has Red GI that comes on separate for the Fear of Dark Mode you could hook up one of the triggers to that but it would momentarily disable the other flashers on Orion’s Belt while they event is on and you could dial them to Red to do a full red color wash during that mode only.

However in my opinion the flashers from Orion’s Belt during that mode are one of the most impressive moments of that game.

I hope this helps to answer your question and addresses it properly. If not I would be more and happy to clarify further in case I misunderstood the question.

Thanks and sure thing glad to help!! TWD the best place for the UV+Glow is the Flasher under the Well Walker. Then for MET either one of the two Sparky flashers (they have orange wires going to them). Let me grab a pic of that.

Here are the MET Sparky flashers. Either one is good!!
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What you will get when you connect the Pin Stadiums flashers to MET in those locations, is every time you hit Sparky the UV+Glow will be triggered then during Multiball it’s one heck of a light show during that mode.

Thank you as always for such a nice post and for being a positive influence in this thread. I seriously appreciate it and as always you are a big supporter of what I do and I am so thankful for that also. I will keep pushing forward and try to do the best for you all!