Hi @ all. Joined the owner's club earlier ths year and wanted to share some insights from the revisions i made to my machine.

Condition when I bought it was ok but not great. Most annoying thing imho: The pesky 28V bulbs that you cannot replace with 12V LEDs.

There is probably easier solutions, but I added a small voltage transformer (about 9€ from ebay) an rewired the whole thing. Neat feature: the lights can be dimmed!

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I noticed some holes in the backbox door that were obviously meant for light sockets. It seems Williams saved 2 bucks of production cost by not equipping them, so I added them myself. Pic 1 shows the locations of the "missing" lights, Pic 2 shows the backbox with added lights.

My machine has a translite from PinballCenter (Germany); nice and colorful, but no cut-outs. To make the station wheel lights more "focused", I taped short tubes around them; same with the planet in the background and the "station flasher" (pics 3&4).

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The "flame flasher" (solenoid 06C) was not working on my machine. I traced the issue to the interconnect board in the lower back of the cabinet (pic 1).

I found no schematics for this board in the manual, but I figured, for the solenoid to work, the board would need to be wired as shown by the red line in pic 2. Blue and yellow line are for other solenoids that work correctly, but, strangely, the encirceled pin on the board does not seem to go anywhere at all. After adding a jumper as shown in pic 3, the flasher works just fine.

Is the board defective by design? Does the "flame flasher" (solenoid 06C) work on any of your stations? If yes... do you know, why? (Maybe I am missing something obvious here as I not an expert.)

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Yes, exactly. Upon closer inspection, the pin I marked on the interconnect board does lead to resistor R6, which has probably just gone bad. I cannot say for sure though, because I cannot check the resistor without breaking my now-working board by removing the jumper again.