Any other Prem/LE owners who have not had a chance to get the blackout mod? The list needs to hit 15 sold for them to be made, and it is sitting at 8.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/star-trek-le-laser-blackout-mod

Check it out if you have not read about it (though Im sure most have)

I have an LE and have the pop caps waiting on install....

Debating if I try to do it before the holidays or not.

Got me a new toy.... Gonna be mounting it somewhere. Havent decided yet though.

Suggestions?

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I have super bands in all my games.

Mostly for aesthetic reasons. I don't mind the difference in game play tbh.

Put on zitts pop caps, tested on/off, all worked.

Decided, since im here, why not have a game.

Ball got stuck.

oops.

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I did not

I have senior moments, but Im quite young

My stle has factory mylar.

And apparently eats parts. Lost a nut and it is gone to oblivion.

Pingraffx, buy direct

Also available through coin taker and pinball refinery

Opto issues persist.

Fml

Entrance to left ramp. Its a connector issue. Gonna try something tonight that someone recommended to me.

Read that post when searching last week. I adjusted them, tried to center them. The beam is solid, but its under the pf when I touch the wire it wiggles the connector. I held the connector and wiggled, no issue. I held the wire and wiggled between the connector and where my fingers were, started going awry.

Im gonna try making the pins wider to create better contact and more solid grip.

Taking warp to a whole new level

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Game over time just decided to repel the right side of the head. I think the screws on the bottom never went in properly causing the wood to warp. Eventually just kept creeping up and the t mouldings came loose exposing how bad it got.

Stern sent a new panel but my god what a job to replace. Hours of tight gritty work.

Yeah, they sent me a side panel, but it was labour intensive and incomplete. I had to drill all pilot holes without any template. And the procedure took a good 4-5 hours of solid work

It does

Update on my left ramp entry opto. The connector head came off as it was never crimped from the factory. So, repinned and crimped connector.

Opto officially dead, or broken wire somewhere. Looks like I'll be removing my vengeance AGAIN.... Ugh

I'm a vengeance removal pro now

Update for St owners. This was in a stle, but I'm gonna gander it is on all models.

Having had issues with my entry opto on the left ramp I have been going crazy trying to clean, adjust repin, etc etc and to no avail.

Finally removed the assembly tonight and found out a hidden culprit that all machines may be victim to one day.

The pair of optos on the ramp have both wires very tightly zip tied together in the ramp (out of sight). My initial problem with the opto was vibration, bit having tried to fix it so many times the wire became more taught and the zip tie only became a mystery and invisible hinderance.

I removed the vengeance ship and found the zip tie only once I couldn't pull the opto wire out without pulling on the opposite side.

If you get lucky, you can sneak mini snips in from under the pf and carefully chop the zip off the wires. This allowed me to remove the "faulty" opto.

I decided to test it else where and see if it was salvagable for parts and maybe it was a wire short or something. But now removed and no longer being pinched and pulled down, it worked fine.

So I reinstalled it, leaving the wire loose and using a different drop hole this time, it seems to be completely fine and functional again.

I reassembled everything and so far it seems my issue is totally gone. I'm thinking the tension and added pressure may have cause the opto to physically be moved and angled enough that the sensor was tripping non stop.

Just food for thought for any of you guys experiencing similar problems.

Wall of text over.

Time to go back, delete some posts, and claim the 100 spot.

Should be too hard. Just get friendly with a mod

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Interesting....

Go on

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The color is just showing off, no extra point. The inlanes do light the kickback. Both virtual and physical.

An easy way to troubleshoot this issue is to swap the board for the trough on your Mustang with the one in your Star Trek. This will immediately let you know if it is a board issue than you need to reflow solder or if it is something else.

It is also possible that you have a simple opto issue in the trough, and you just don't realize it because in test mode it seems to be working properly.

Surprisingly this happened to me ages ago on a different stern. The screw may be from the playfield hangers that grab below the lock bar.

Officially out of the club