Thanks for chiming in. It sounds like there is an "industrial/commercial version" that is a dumb projector and "consumer version" for travel use with phones and wifi streaming.

How to make the consumer version work? Perhaps a little addon box that pulses the power on/off and has an IR blaster that sets the projector to hdmi or maybe the IR blaster can turn the projector on and set it to hdmi?

Edit -
looking at the online manual it appears the IR remote can be used to turn it on off.
https://fccid.io/2AF6A-S6000/User-Manual/User-manual-2974196.html

if someone verifies that this works that's a very attractive option. i'm not cheap, i just don't like paying $600 for $30 worth of physical material

just because we're bereaved doesn't make us saps

I just received a back up from Midwest Gaming. I plugged it in to my machine and it powered on and off with the machine. It looked and worked as it should.

Sappin' it up

to be clear i dont think MW Gaming is doing anything wrong and at the end of the day i'm glad the option is available. i just think it's criminal that stern set the price of a replacement at $600 and then didn't order enough to service warranties, apparently

i always thought the whole assembly was 700 but the projector alone is 600. that's how marco has it.

ultimately doesn't matter, i'm gonna have to buy a spare of some kind because in the future having a spare will make selling the game easier/more profitable. using the remote to turn the projector on and select the source is probably less time than the game even takes to do the light check, from power to lights on my game is like 30 seconds

at the end of the day i've only ever heard of two projectors going bad. Chuck's and then that one dude's that burned out, and he never detailed what happened to it.

my projector survived 9 months in the box and a train and truck trip all the way across the country and a forklift stick and using the uhaul ramp to bridge the gap from the lift gate to the truck and then me driving it from the loading dock to my house in pouring rain in a janky uhaul and riding down a rickety ramp on a wobbly dolly to the final destination.

if it burns out because of a 35 cent fan i'm gonna be bent lol

Hey y’all my Stranger Things pro left down post started acting up. I know there are 2 optos under that left ramp that trigger it. I need the receiver side which I think is part # 520-8116-00rx. It’s sold out at Pinball Life and Marco. Anybody know other parts places that might have it?

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search google with this exact string including the quotes: "520-8116-00"

looks like plenty of euro places have it but VAT is gonna make it expensive

Don't have a source for ya, but have been waiting months for my replacements from stern so can attest they could be very hard to track down.

you did NOT have the original s6000 projector. you had what sounds like the M4.

the original s6000 does *not* have a battery.
the original s6000 does *not* have wifi.
the original s6000 does *not* have a power switch.
the original s6000 does *not* have special stern firmware.

what ever projector you had was not the original s6000. it really sounds like you had the M4 or M4s, which did have all those features (aside from the stern firmware, which *none* of the projectors have, be it s6000 or m4/m4s.)

I have made the m4s works in a Stanger things. but you must do some small mods to the unit to make it work. but the m4s is physically a bit bigger so the mount is different.

I’m not seeing anything so far in US.

I accidentally broke that little opto off and managed to solder it back on. It can be done with the sharp edge of a pointed soldering iron tip or the sharp edge of a chisel tip. It's scary, but doable. I soldered mine back on as I figured I'd find no replacement.

This link says otherwise. I'm sticking to my guess that there is a commercial version and a consumer version.

https://fccid.io/2AF6A-S6000/User-Manual/User-manual-2974196.html

edit - when I look closer, that appears the be the M4 shown with the lens on the left and more square shape in the manual.

I wonder if he can post a photo of the projector he has.

Damn, this is disappointing. I guess I’ll order from over seas and wait forever. There doesn’t seem to be a setting to disable that post.

I got my projector today from Pinball Life. Odd it came with no box, just a little projector wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in a small box with tape over it.. Is this what the others have experienced? There wasn't even a packing invoice which made me think maybe it was a mistake.

that's oem, baybee!

Well I found those opto receivers and ordered 2 from a France parts store. The German parts places didn’t seem to want to let me choose shipping to US. At least I got some on the way.

In the mean time I just disconnected that down post at the connector and pulled it out of the game. Now its at least playable. It doesn’t stop the ball at the beginning of some modes. But other than that I don’t see any harm done.

I already have your flipper fans installed on the game, which have made an huge difference, and a NOS projector on the way. Any chance you’d consider working on an add on cooling solution for the projector?

that manual is NOT for the s6000.
The S6000 has a standard HDMI port, *not* a mini hdmi port (as that manual shows.) That manual is for the M4 or M4s, or even something else.

If I still had a Stranger Things I'd be looking at it for sure, but it's something that I'd need to be hands on with to get it right.

I swear I’ve seen this before but I have a pro and noticed that the demo ramp when up doesn’t perfectly align with the sides. Is there any way to adjust it? It sits a little forward.

If this game is still playable like that, oh man that would be amazing. Still no noticeable issues? I would absolutely do this so I can at least play my machine till the replacement comes.

I only had the game about a week when this happened. So I am not super familiar with everything that the down post did. For the most part it seemed like it stopped every ball that was shot into the mystery target and direct hits to the demogorgans mouth.

I guess this gave you time to look at your mystery award and watch some mode start animations. But it pretty much released the ball fairly quickly. Now the ball just doesn’t stop at all so you just have to be ready for it to come rolling out immediately. I guess it’s better than not being able to play it at all.

Does anyone think that there will be a mod in the pro that you can add the projectorer to you game? Thoughts?

yeah if you think about it that post is only there to hold the ball so the mode/demodog/EB animations can play, it shouldn't really affect game play much except that it will release the ball early on a mode like trap 'em

A projector that's going for 600 right now and adding prem code to a Pro. I'm not expert, but that seems easy, unless there is some controller board for the projector itself.

From what I heard, you can just make your own Mando topper as the code is all there and attach an LCD to topper and it will feed you the proper images to the LCD mini screen, so that's what made me think about his projector mod.

It was posted that does not work. There is something special about the premium/LE CPU board done at the factory to enable the video output.

You would also need a modified apron. Screen material installed. Secure projector mounting hardware. 5v supply. Power and video cables.

Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words:
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Stern S6000 + Retail S6000-2sm (resized).jpgStern S6000 + Retail S6000-3sm (resized).jpgStern S6000 + Retail S6000-4sm (resized).jpgStern S6000 + Retail S6000-5sm (resized).jpgStern S6000 + Retail S6000-6sm (resized).jpgStern S6000 + Retail S6000-7sm (resized).jpgI bought the original S6000 OEM version over a year ago in hopes of using it as backup in my STh premium. Of course there are internal differences as both were designed to do different things. The original OEM version has a battery, Wi-Fi, and IR for the wireless remote control. The Stern S6000 has no battery, likely unique firmware, and no need for wi-fi or IR.

Bottom Line - BOTH are model S6000 projectors made different for different applications.

But what do the CIRCUIT boards say? Are they different model numbers?

actually it's not that difficult to get the projector to work on a pro, it's just expensive. i have a projector on my pro with it running premium software. but after you add up all the retail costs ($1500+), i'm not sure it's justified. Now if you could get the stern parts at discount, it's not terrible. but at retails prices (like $600 for a projector), it adds up quick.

on those projector pictures above, those are *not* the same projector. the case is the same, but the internals are nothing alike. but the good news is it's easy to take the battery/wifi version and make it work in the stern. just need to do a couple small internal changes. the fact that the case is the same really helps, as you can use it with the stock stern mounting brackets/hardware. but it's a moot point as that projector is NLA.

Where is the other 900.00 after the 600.00 projector?

I have the projector and the oem power supply, also have all 3 versions of cleland premium codes. I figured i need some cables ? And screen material yet

Hey cfh, is there a reason you’re keeping it a secret on how to get the projector running on a pro?

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Looking to join the club if anyone has 1 for sale or knows of 1 for sale

When someone figures out that, the price of le and premium will drop

No it won't.

LE will always be the LE, so no effect.

The only conceivable one that could be affected is the Prem, but if this mod costs $1500-2000 to implement and is still janky because you're running Prem code on a Pro, then I don't see much of an impact.

i haven't laid out the procedure to put a projector on a pro for a few reasons. for one it's expensive and hooky to get set up. and you need access to a premium machine too as part of the set up. someone could offer a kit to do it. but for joe average, it's not easy (again, unless you have access to a premium.) at the vfw we have both a premium and pro side-by-side, so piece of cake. but nearly nobody else has that access. and frankly most people that bought a premium (and spent the big bucks) probably don't want you playing frankenstein with their game.

I never took apart the Stern S6000. The original OEM S6000 was advertised by the manufacture as the model S6000.
BOTH are model S6000 projectors made different for different applications.

Doesn't mean anything. The revision screened on the board tells the story.

Absolutely. Start somewhere. But don't stop at the casing and marketing. Find out if the two are the same product or not by looking at the boards.

So reading between the lines here there’s a one-time flip of something, like swapping in the premium CPU, then swapping the Pro back?

I’ll bet to some degree the people that would want to do it would be able to find help in the community if that were the case.