I dropped the color DMD in mine today and it looks awesome. I'm having three issues though.

1) The Sanctum Wall wont always lock in the 'up' position. Sometimes it fires and tries a few times, never makes it. Sometimes it locks up briefly to fall back down. Sometimes it works. It appears to be able to raise all the way up, but not 'stay' up.

2.) The back row of my battlefield doesnt pop back up after they're knocked down. They stay down. Is this a switch I need to adjust? I think it is but I'm unsure how.

3.) My ball gets stuck on the left ramp too often. It 'dies' on the wire headed to the right side of the machine, where the little switch the ball rolls over is present. Is this common?

lingering.

Nothing changed after the color DMD.

I believe it's all related to switches so more or less mechanical problems vs electical

I'm having this issue, but getting a different switch error #

Do these need to be taken apart and cleaned?

I get this error every game. They don't reset for me even once.
Is this area easily deconstructed?

I took it apart, cleaned it up and now it's working as it should. Pretty exciting.
It was awfully dirty.

Now I guess I just wait for the sanctum door to come, replace that and go from there on my sanctum wall errors.

One thing I am noticing is the little plastic chute that is behind the battlefield, when "escaping" the battle with Khan, my ball gets hung up on it too regularly. Is this typical? I think I need to adjust the pitch of it.

Looking pretty sharp. Big thanks to Aurich!

Tempted to get the Britemod for the speakers. Anyone else done it?

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I like that. Where can I get it?

Had some fun the other night and the shiny jewel in the middle is my Shadow.

Loving it!

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Swapped in purple flipper rubber last night.

They match the playfield much better and look awesome. They're from pinball life.

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Only when the ball hits them really hard?

If you have not done it yet you should take that bank of 4 targets out and dismantle the assembly and clean it up with Novus 2. Mine were filthy, as are most. They play much cleaner now. Mine weren't coming back up.

So I surfed through ~ 25 pages of this thread and can't find the answer I'm looking for...

I want to illuminate my Battelfield with a LED strip or something. Looking for a what, where and how in that regard.

I swear I saw a post on it once before but I can't seem to find it, now that I have resolved all my bigger issues on this machine.

I lol'd

Purple is the way to go for me.

I like the purple rubbers and green LEDs in the mode inserts.

Help me light up my Battlefield!

I'ts too dark to play in a dark room.

I bought some LED strips from comet, but the wire they come with is super short. It's definitely intended for use on top of the playfield, and cant reach up above the battlefield upper PF.

Initially I cut off their connectors and soldered longer wire, planning to run wire underneath and up through the back from one of the (4) GI lights that is along the loop, under the BF playfield. When I plugged this in it caused flicker and 'put out' the the rest of the GI around it. So, that will not work.

I really want to get this done and button up this game. Thanks in advance.

There is one on ebay right now

you're right, I don't see it either. Maybe it was me searching for sold parts? IDK. Try PMing him, see if he has 1 left?

as for what you need:

-Sanctum wall ($20 on Marco)
-Mylar patches for the wireform drops into the two in-lanes, and sanctum magnet spot
-be prepared to clean the back 4 targets of the Battlefield PF
-I would STRONGLY consider the color DMD, especially if you get the Aurich kit
-long microswitch for the left (lower) wireform that crosses the playfield
-LEDs

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Care to share your lighting the battlfield? I'd like to do the same and would love to see/know how you accomplished it.

I color matched on the inserts with a few exceptions. I put purple in the arrow that points to the Khan saucer.
I used green in the modes instead of Purple. I though it popped more and with purple flashers, there's tons of purple going on. I put every color of bulb in there for a while, and green was what I liked best.

Don't put cool whites in the flashers under the caps or it'll be too bright.

LEDs are really easy and not very expensive unless you get lazy and buy a kit.

The COLOR DMD is basically a must for this thing, especially if you spent the $ for the Aurich and LEDs. After you sell the old DMD it only cost you ~ $200.

You know, I don't but I will take one later tonight (or tomorrow) and throw it up here.

Camera phone with minimal effort so not the best but there's an idea

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Damnit. New issue today. The paddle up on the battlfield is giving me 1 or 2 hits on the ball then the ball is just sitting on it, and it returns to the middle and the ball falls out.

My test mode isn't giving me any errors. Should it be? Is this an opto?

I have a set for sale in the marketplace.

PM me if interested.

As an owner of this game I highly, highly, highly recommend the colorDMD.

It looks too awesome to not have in there.