Can anyone provide me pictures of the LED backbox insert they have installed? I'm building one for my Ironman currently and could use some inspiration on LED placement. I haven't found a layout that really pops in my mind yet.
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Shelburn, IN
Wanna build 2 while your at it? Ask this guy for some pics.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-huo-imve-4700-york
I'm planning on building a few. I can't justify spending 200 bucks for a piece of cardboard with LEDs glued to it. Once I figure out a layout, it shouldn't take me long to pump out a few.
I posted a couple of treads on how to do this and used Tron and IM as examples: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-to-make-flashers-or-under-cabinet-lighting-for-15-for-modern-sterns
There are some pictures if IM in there. Happy to take more photos if you need them.
This thread is on making the backbox LED panel: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-to-make-an-led-backbox-for-30-for-modern-sterns
I just glued 4 rows of RGB LEDS and have them on a fade pattern and it looks pretty sweet, but it's almost too much. I realized that you need to actually make a pattern to highlight certain pieces of the art. I took like 2 hours to put it together including soldering the strips together.
Quoted from Grinder901:I want one of these so bad
You mean to tell me the Grinder has every mod but this?!? How can this be so 
Quoted from ff6735:You mean to tell me the Grinder has every mod but this?!? How can this be so
Haha! Hey, I'm working on it! 
Quoted from Deez:I'm planning on building a few. I can't justify spending 200 bucks for a piece of cardboard with LEDs glued to it. Once I figure out a layout, it shouldn't take me long to pump out a few.
I'll buy one.
You guys remember when an interactive backbox was just standard in a pinball machine??? I'm a Stern lover, but it drives me nut that they did away with that.
I'm looking into a more efficient way to build the connectors. I'd like to design a small board that piggybacks on the existing flasher headers. I'm thinking it could have a board with connectors similar to the 40-pin connector on a system 6 game and then a set of header pins for the existing flashers to plug into so it would be a cleaner install.
Quoted from Deez:I'm looking into a more efficient way to build the connectors. I'd like to design a small board that piggybacks on the existing flasher headers. I'm thinking it could have a board with connectors similar to the 40-pin connector on a system 6 game and then a set of header pins for the existing flashers to plug into so it would be a cleaner install.
Yeah. The harness is a killer when making these. This is what I've come up with as a partial solution. A protoboard that acts as a splitter. One set of plugs is coming from the flashers, then I can split to backbox, cab, under backbox, Arduino, etc.
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