I didn't really find any info about these LED displays on Pinside or the Zaccaria-Pinball.com site, so I figured I'd post up my experience and results.

I recently purchased a Magic Castle on a container buy, knowing that it was going to need two displays and a backglass. I figured that would be easy enough - Was I never more wrong. I tried to keep any eye out for a backglass and displays for a while, and nothing seemed to be available. Fortunately, I found Gianfri and his new LED displays for Gen 2 Zaccaria pins (Gen 1 kits are also available).

When I initially requested info from him, and he was extremely responsive and provided me with technical details on modifying my existing hardware to run his DYI LED display kit (29€ each). He also has a deluxe version (49€ each) that is a complete drop in replacement. Since I didn't mind doing the work myself, and had working display drivers, I opted for the DIY kit. Shipping was 25€ to Puyallup, WA USA. Made the purchase two weeks ago, and received my order last Friday.

I took a few pictures of what I received, me modding my display drivers and one with them running in Magic Castle. The mod does require that you remove / replacing several resistors, cut a few traces, run two jumpers and replace IC2. I did most of the work Sunday night, and finished up this evening. I'd say it was about 2 hours total work. While they visually look comparable to the originals, they're a little different and I think I'll replace the rest as well so that they match 100%.

Here's a link to one of their demo videos -

Gianfri asked that any product /sales inquires go to: [email protected]

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Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!

They are a little brighter, but Gianfri said I could swap one of the 100 ohm resistors out for an 150 ohm resistor to get it closer to the originals.

Yeah, he's been extremely helpful and knowledgeable. He also shipped my order out the next day and immediately provided a tracking number. I was impressed with his excellent customer service.

I wasn't aware that xpin had a product in the works. Honestly, you should email Gianfri. I'm going to guess he could probably do a custom color for you if you needed it. Also, they have a full, ready to drop in kit like xpin would offer. The full drop in kit has a lot more functionality and uses modern components.

I found Steve a little bit ago and he's working on it as we speak . With any luck, I'll have it sometime next week.

Yeah, they look really nice all together. Definitely an excellent mod for the money!