Quoted from Aquadude777:You can add a 2nd speaker, but mounting it is trickier than wiring it up. You'll need to get one of the Spike speaker plated and drill a couple holes. I installed a set of 4" Kenwoods, a Pinnovator subwoofer out, Polk powered sub, Pin Stadiums, speaker light kit, lighted flipper buttons, white t-molding and a Premium translite. Also, there's a setting in the menu for the speakers.
Hey everyone, I wanted to comment on the ability to add a 2nd speaker to the Star Wars Home Pin (probably ditto for Jurassic Park model). Spoke with Wes (Rebel Guitars) several times for advice on how to do this. First of all, it is a pain in the ass to convert so unless your fairly mechanically handy, it's not the easiest project to tackle. If you do decide to upgrade it, here is what I did. My biggest challenge was for the speaker wiring harness, the Home Pin only has wires for the one speaker, which btw is a very crappy 4 inch 5w paper cone speaker, not good at all for 4-5k pinball machine. So I contacted several folks about the harness and I wound up working with Michael from Flipper Fidelity. Really nice guy! Built me a custom harness and I bought a pair of his Spike 2 backboard speakers, nice 2 ways. He sent the harness, foam spacers and hardware which really worked out great, high recommend him! I got the speakers and plugged them into the CPU board and bam, awesome stereo sound!! My next steps were to buy a pair of aftermarket speaker plates (definitely recommend this) and I got a pair from speakerlightkits.com for like $20. Now comes the hard part, the predrilled holes in the speaker plates must be for full sized Spike 2 machines so what I did was took the paper background covers over the speaker foam and used those as templates to drill the needed holes. For the left side where there currently is no speaker, you only have to drill two holes (use a 3/16") bit. For the right side where the one speaker is, gonna need to drill four holes so plate goes over existing screw posts. Once you do that, speakers mount very easy to the plates, tighten the screws down and your good to go. I also ordered a sound card from Pinnovators (thanks Wes) and plugged in a 10 inch Polk external sub. OMG the sound was off the hook good, I mean went from a 1 before to a 10 now!! I cost me about $300 for everything but totally worth it! It was some work and planning but it's like playing a totally different game now! I also made my own speaker light kit. Decided against powering off the board so I bought two light kits from Menards for like $5 each, got a USB two outlet adaptor and ran an extension cord thru backboard out the bottom and works and looks great! Adding some pics to.....[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
I made this as an easy way to mount an extra stock speaker. I'm not sure I would use it to mount a speaker with a super heavy magnet like those flipper fidelity replacements.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5385687
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West Des Moines, IA
