The eddy sensor board has an adjustment pot which will sometimes get out of adjustment with vibration. It probably wont show up as an error unless it was stuck in the closed position as it's normally open till the ball rolls over the eddy sensor which triggers the switch closed. Have you tried adjusting the pot? Their is a red LED on the board, I believe you turn the pot counter clockwise till the LED turns on then turn the pot clockwise till the LED turns off and then back it up just a little. I hope I didn't get that backward but you will figure it out wile adjusting the pot. Put the game in switch test and run the ball over the eddy sensor and see if the ball triggers the switch . I cover this briefly in my video around 12.26 into the video.

Many thanks Sam. Will watch the vid when home from work.
Yeah, I've tried adjusting pots on both but the LEDS don't come on at all.
Switches aren't triggered by rolling ball over them in test either.

EDIT: Just realised who you are. Your video had already been a godsend, thank you! Fixed my optos thanks to that and it's how I knew how to try adjusting pots in the first place.
But, no, didn't work - no LED on either board.

Well if the LEDs on both boards never come on I would suspect a power problem. Have you checked to see if the board is getting 12 volts. On the 4 pin plug ,pin 1 is ground and pin 2 is +12 volts. You need to check with a DMM-voltmeter. If theirs no power their then check J 118 on the Power Driver board, that's where it gets the 12 volts from.

Yippee, just got an email from my distributor
It says,
"Good News!
Your STLE Is shipping from Stern Today!! Attached is your Bill of Lading (Master Shipping Document) Please Look it over to be sure it looks correct. Tomorrow I should have tracking information for you. "

I am getting excited now

Sam - I h8t u.

Well it's gonna be a long weekend. My STLE has arrived at the Norfolk VA terminal but they are closed till Monday. So close, dam

Bummer about the height limit.

And it's # 666

Party at your place.

Yeah, at $8200 it's going to cut into their profit margin to deeply to give the buyer a key fob.

Well Murphy's law is alive and well apparently. My STLE arrived at the Norfolk shipping terminal late Friday night. I was going to see if I could pick it up today but this weekend wile getting my pickup truck ready I discovered a problem with my lift gate. The motor needs new brushes, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't so I decided I would rather not take the chance. If you put the lift gate down and cant lift it back up it's like a boat anchor and your going nowhere.
So I called to make an appointment for delivery sense it's already paid for anyway. Looks like it will be here Wednesday between 12:00 and 4:00pm.
What's 2 more days.

Just ordered a Stern ST today, could not resist the calling.
Already have a STNG, but will keep them in different rooms so not to over-do the Trekness.

just set up my hemi proto type star trek pro, super pumped, another great game from the refinery.

Just finishing shopping out my Next Gen , Anyone here have files for some more interesting looking rule cards they can share with me ?

By "proto type" do you mean the lighted rails??

Pics?

I saved this thread a long time ago. Lots of different machines:

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-pricing-instruction-pinball-cards

http://www.pinballrebel.com/game/pins/instruction/index.htm

the same as you can't over dry.

Did not shoot a whole lot of pics because it was just a shop job not a restore , But I'll post a few that I took tomorrow . Came out nice . removed everything from topside of playfield and buffed it , flippers ,slings and bumpers got rebuilt .Everything else was cleaned and some new parts . I've got a nice playfield and it really only has a little wear in the neutral zone and I installed the cliffy for that

Thanks! I knew someone here had them . Originals just look kind of boring so I wanted something more interesting, I like the custom ones that people have done .

Oh yea, also added the cut bumper cap to the bumper under the beta quadrant ramp .Looks good .

Buying Pin Refinery ST......Anyone make Stern ST instruction cards yet?

The original rope light shorts out and takes the controller board with it. The guy I bought mine from built a new one with led rope. It's a good bit thicker rope but looks GREAT. Pretty sure he has extras so search ST25th rope light here. I can't remember his name.

They are chaser lights like on a movie marquee and they are controlled by the CPU. Do your self a favor and get them working. Years ago when I got my ST 25, the small controller board was missing and my rope lights had shorts. I pulled the lights out of the blue tubes and found the shorts, repaired the shorts and replaced a few bulbs with ones I got at Radio Shack. I could not find the chaser board so I built my own from the schematic in the manual and it worked great. The red rope light string is found in Hook. I remember someone replaced the wheat grain bulbs with LED's so that might be a better solution. Just add a resistor to each LED so it will run on 12 volts.As soon as I get my STLE set up, (yea it arrived today) I plain to get my ST 25th out of storage.

I have a friend with a decent Data East Star Trek. We had a guy custom make blue chase lights to replace burned one. Put them on and game looks amazing...Game is in above avg condition and we added a lot of LEDs to GI. He also bought a nice cleared pf to swap out. He is over his head in projects and may be moving soon. I think he is going to sell them as a combo for maybe $1800 or so. Nice deal as the custom blue rope lights were over $100 and look great. Any interest let me know. Game is in MD. Nice to see the DE Star Trek get some love.

Here are some pics of my Next Gen , top side of playfield stripped and some pics of the dirty areas .

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Neutral zone wear .

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These were in the bag with the extra sling shot plastics with the LE. They only have one hole in them so would you say these are key fob's.
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Every Stern Pro I have bought has come with a key-fob.

I finally saw the movie last night. Awesome! Wife and kids even loved it. Ordered my ST pin already. I am attaching a pic off the gameroom thread that I love. Not trying to get in any copyright trouble but would love if someone can get a still jpg of this scene. Love seeing both ships and space around it. I love astronomy and this would look great on my gameroom wall next to pin. Thanks for any help.vengeance.png

I don't open my goodie bags on my machines but I can see them through the plastic. I can try to take a pic of it in the plastic bag if you want.

There are some extra plastics in the bag but no key-fob that I saw. I suppose you can use them for a key-fob if you want.

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Thanks Sam - it's taken me a while to get under the hood but yes, both boards are receiving 12 volts, so I'm a bit stumped.
I guess it has to be a coincidence and either both boards - or both sensors - are dead?
What's the most likely scenario?

The more I learn and the more I explore this machine, the more I'm seeing it's been a bit jury-rigged over the years.
The disconnected knocker, for example. The wires that should go to it (+1 other) all go into a connector and ultimately go under the playfield - so lord knows what's going on there!

Still, one thing at a time eh? And eddys or not, it's playing great at the moment.

That's the question. Are you suppose to get a key-fab with the Pro?

Yes they are worth it. I have an extra double set in every game I own. I get mine from PinballBulbs.com.

If you like the bling you will LOVE them, and I love the bling.