Hello, recently purchased a TZ and added an LED kit, but having problem locating flasher #37. When I run flasher test nothing lights up. I know manual says upper right flipper, so is this the socket behind the load gum ball plastic? Thanks

This used to throw me off too. There is a flasher under the plastic immediately to the rear of the upper right flipper. It’s just a blue plastic under the “gum ball “ sign

I thought of Loyd Christmas immediately when I saw that sticker... as long as birds heads are not falling off and sampsonite brief cases still exist, I think you’re good

This flasher is also known for locking on and melting the plastic above it. Quite why Williams flashers lock on when failing is a mystery to me.

It’s the transistor failing on the board, not the flasher itself. Coils lock up and melt the same way.

Fair enough. I meant more than the failure condition for a flasher is that it fails on, melting plastic if left unresolved. I don't know if failing on is something that electronically just happens?

The upper right flipper flasher on TZ is notorious for this.

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I wanted to join the club today with my Black and White TZ. I'll have my machine at pinball Expo this year in my booth to view. Project took me longer than expected but happy with the outcome.

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Perfect, thanks

That looks even more amazing than I imagined! Good work

B&W TZ looks awesome!

No, it's not normal. Presumably you've tried a different bulb? LED flasher or incandescent?

You know, I may be wrong but I could have sworn that my light pole is tied into an insert not a flasher.

For a moment I thought he meant the street lamp that you often see by the pop bumpers, as that is definitely tied to an insert, but that's a mod.

I believe he means the lamp above the mini playfield which has a flasher and two GI bulbs in it.

The flasher in that works like any other. If it's dim I guess it could be a transistor (Q38) problem but that one handles both flashers so I don't know if it would affect both?

Transistors that fail to shorting... is a trait of one way they can fail. Since it failed to short, the circuit is connected to ground.. and lamp stays on.

What condition a circuit fails to is a long part of pinball history in terms of highs and lows.. but here since the transistor's job is to complete the circuit, fusing is how they prevent it from becoming catastrophic. But in the case of flashers and plastics... heat usually arrives before the power draw pops the fuse.

Mod question - too many items plugged to j116???

Has anyone had issues or have a suggestion about the gum ball dazzler mod being used on a TZ that also has a color dmd. My issue is that the color dmd hooks up to pin j116 with a z connector that joins the original harness to j116. No problems.
But the dazzler mod also goes to j116, so that’s 3 harnesses going to that pin. It worked fine for a few days but one day I turned on the machine and it factory reset and the flippers started firing. Then a fuse blew. I unhooked the dazzler from j116 and Machine is playing fine.
Any suggestions?

Ken

Yeah.
You're drawing too much power.

Lose a mod, or get a 5v/12v power supply.

Where did you get that spiral wireform? I've been looking for one

Look cooler than it performs in real life.

No one has an idea of which item number could it have Or do have better pics of a shopped game??

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/twilight-zone-need-help-with-part-placement

i think you are missing the impact bracket part number 01-11207 page 2-48 in the manual

however i did a quick search and couldnt find anyone selling a replacement. you may have to get the measurements and see if you can get a machinist to make you one....

Just get some raw stock and make it yourself with a vise. Or if feeling adventurous... beg, plead, and throw money at Kerry Stair @mantis amusements and see if he'll make it for you But I know in the past he needs volume to do a part.. but this thing is so dead simple... maybe you'll get him on a generous day.

Me, I'd say get some steel, drill, cutting wheel, file, and a bench vise and just bend it yourself. It's buried under the mini PF, no one sees it.

It’s worth an ask - Kerry has a lot of TZ parts already, and his stuff is OUTSTANDING

Thank you very much for this link!!! It gives me a huge help! If someone has or can kindly take measurement of this piece maybe I can try to reproduce it!

Thank you for your suggestions! If I'm able to find the right measurements I can try to reproduce it! Do you know if those parts are in stainless steel or simple iron?

Part found! Thank you all!

just for the info where did you find it?

A friend had it among his bunch of spare parts now for the series "the endless story" I'm missing the motor assembly from the gumball machine and it seems to be sold out on most of the internet shops or better, the motor can be found but the cyrcle nylon part and the bracket are not..

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have a friend with a 3d printer? you could just print one of the nylon rings

bought a led set for my TZ off of ebay and when i stuck the flasher bulbs in the blinking backbox holders, the flashers dont blink. any suggestions besides putting back the original bulbs?

You have to put blinking LED in those lamp holder! Just have a look here https://www.cometpinball.com/mobile/Product.aspx?id=42049
Normal LED don't blink!

EDIT if you are talking about flashers I don't know how to help -_-' sorry..

Regarding the nylon circle, sadly I don't have a friend with 3D printer and neither a model/file on my PC of the part that he would have to print..

probably not flashing bulbs? I bought my kit from Comet and they worked great.....

i have a printer and could print it out and send it to you but i dont have time to design it, you could do it on tinkercad which is pretty easy to use and free.

The blinking bulbs are not flashers nor are they regular LED lamps - you have to buy special "blinking" lamps. the blinking comes from the bulb itself, it is not controlled by the machine. Pinball life sells the original incandescent bulbs, I believe Comet has blinking LEDs

the ones I received from Comet were blinking LED's. The reason I know this is that the original ones didn't blink so they quickly sent me correct LED's. Makes a big difference using quality LED's ....

https://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3005

I didn't know about the slow blink bulbs. Mine came with regular leds and I never noticed other games flashing. Pinball life says there are supposed to be 8 slow blink bulbs in the backbox. Where do they go?

Should be in the different colored lamp sockets.

May just be personal preference, but I used a mix of the slow and fast (OK, medium fast) blinking LEDs on mine. Having all of one kind tended toward them syncing and just looking annoying. I would have to look to recall which I located where, but I was much happier with the results. Much more random looking in appearance as would have been the case with the original incandescent blinking bulbs.

Though I do miss the sound when it is quiet...

Where does this plugin I cant find a plug

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FYI there Is at least 1 (may be 2) plug which does not actually plug in anywhere

I would stick him in the base of the cabinet, right at the back.

I have this Willy (and Talky Tina; they came in a set). I’d consider a bracket over one of the shots - not a ramp, maybe standing behind the gumbal sign

I'm sure everyone knew this but me, but was playing my TZ tonight and when you are in the multi-ball where you hit jackpot with the piano shot, if you hit the Powerball in there it doubles your jackpot. Got 70 million tonight from that. Just another cool thing I never knew about the game.