WOW that looks awesome Mike, makes me want to buy an Ironman

If you re do Metallica count me in, that’s two people now so it’s a goer

Yes that is the ‘factory’ setting for best lightshow and changing spinner sounds

Hopefully it’s not too hard to work out mate.

Been awhile but I purchased this rising cross kit off RobF and have finally finished making all the missing pieces. I started by machining up the cam that pushes the switches.

I then machined up the pin with the circlip groove for the sliding piece out of stainless steel, I also made the angle slides with the intention of welding to the existing pro cross assembly. After getting all the pieces together I found out the pro assembly is just plated steel. So I figured I would just make a whole new slide assembly from Stainless steel. I used stainless angle sections which I TIG welded down the middle as I would not have the room to fold back on itself as the originals are made in a press.

Then a connecting arm and all finished.

Just need to find out from Mike the best way to connect to the Total Lightshow and it will be good to go!

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All good mate, didn’t want to annoy you too much but keen as to get it up and running!!

Finally got the rising cross mod working on my Pro!
Huge shout out to Rick (PoMC) for some detailed photos of the wiring. Helped me out a lot. Thanks very much mate.
I printed a small master of puppets image from the LE cabinet art to go behind and stop the annoying blinding flashers.

I’ve had that one as well. The other little one is the rising cross mod sometimes rises when it shouldn’t. Would be great to get a line of code written in to tell the game to ensure the cross is in the down position at the start of each new ball.

Mike, you are a legend. Thanks for getting on to this so quickly. It was something that was slightly annoying which I could live with, but I am stoked you have had the time to resolve!

Basically you just connect it via the switch matrix for the premium, tapping into the correct colour wires at connectors or using insulation displacement connectors. The motor taps into 20v at the pin where the premium does in the back box. Then switch the negative wire through a solid state relay such as an SSR-25DD (heaps on eBay) the relay is switched from the outputs on the total light show board.

Can confirm this has definitely fixed the problem. It used to stay up if I started a game just after finishing the prior game, when unforgiven starts playing and the cross has just risen again. The very start of ‘attract mode’
If you let the section of unforgiven finish, it has never been an issue, only time it happens is when you start a new game just after it has risen.
Now it only stays up for the first ball then retracts again.
Thanks very much mate, good fix!

Awesome! Thanks very much Mike!

Mike this has fixed the cross staying up as you can see in the start of my video. It momentarily makes the cross rise when the first ball hits the trough switch. Then drops it again when the new ball is on the shooter lane switch as you can see at the end of the video.
It doesn’t happen if you have started cross multiball during the first ball but it did happen when I got cross multiball on the second ball and drained, then when my third ball was in the shooter lane it lowered again.
It is usually only the first ball though, and only if the game is started whilst the unforgiven music is playing (if you let the short unforgiven music finish it does not have the issue at all), so all good, Nothing to stress about, great improvement!
Thank you very much for taking the time to fix it for the very limited number of people who it affects, I really appreciate it!

No stress at all mate, I really appreciate the updates, as I said it was something I could live with but awesome that you have taken the time to resolve!

I have done a bit more testing it has done a couple of weird things like rising and staying up during the start of sparky multiball. And it dropped a couple of times during cross multiball. (This has nothing to do with when I start a new game. It can happen randomly if I wait for unforgiven song to finish before starting or if I start during the song playing.)

As far as I can tell the ball one issues, when the cross rises when the ball drains and is in the trough and it goes back down when ball two is in the shooter lane, only happens if you start a game during the song unforgiven. As soon as that song fades out and relay 1 is engaged (Can hear it click), starting a game then has no issues (possibly something to do with relay 1 as if you quickly start a game before it disengages it doesn’t have the ball one issue either but can have similar problems on other balls)

I can certainly live with that if it’s too much trouble to chase out.
It is much better than before, where it sometimes stayed up for the whole game or until you finished cross multiball.

Mikes videos are here if you need help with the instructions. There were no real written instructions.
https://youtube.com/user/mikeutubehull

Sorry to hear mate. Totally understandable, bloody frustrating thing to happen.
Glad you are doing some work for yourself on the Tommy. Hopefully one day you can get back to making more cool mods. Love my TLS and I really appreciate all the work you put into it and also helping with the code on the rising cross mod.