Hey, nice protectors ! Love them. Will try to buy them, thanks.

Hi Jim, I’m one of the happy customers. Guys, this board is absolutely well designed and a must to off load draw from power board. I bought it the 12v/5v. Totally happy with that.

Really? Wow ... I thought I had the same issue, so no interlock message by default, me too I did not know this was a TZ feature by design.

Hello there, as pinside members give community infinite wisdom and knowledge, I do post a problem that happened to my TZ recently, hoping someone could give me suggestions.
My TZ, 100% working, started to have a lower right flipper problem.
That flipper, and not the upper right one, does not stay up when I push the flipper button. It makes a fast slap back to rest position, after a second brief try to stay up. The upper one stays firmly up.
I briefly checked fliptronic board on the backbox, and no fuses gone, I reseated connectors. Then I checked flipper mechanism and everything seem visually fine, no broken pieces and the coil seems fine, coil sleeve is fine and flipper mechanism under the playfield moves smoothly. When I push and keep pushed the button the coil fires up and then comes back, does not stay on. Then I decided to clean the flipper opto board switch. I cleaned well the opto and reassembled. Same problem. Any suggestions? A friend told me to "tune" the flipper opto board switch, is it possible? But if the flipper opto switch board would be the problem, why the upper right flipper works fine? Do I have to measure voltage somewhere or check something else? Many thanks.

Hello, it fires with full power, I can play with no issues except I does not stay up but drops in rest position.
Thanks

Ok, fine so I'll do a fast test with opto boards exchanging them and check manual about hold wire to the coil, looking for differences, is there a way to clearly identify hold wire to the coil in TZ (noob question I know)? Thanks_

Thanks! I briefly looked this morning and in fact I see a thin wire loose from one side of the coil and not being attached/soldered anywhere, just hanging there. I'll check with diagram where it must be connected and I'ill try.

Many kudos to Coyote. Finally I had time to fix and indeed it was the coil hold wire that was desoldered and hangin’ there. Flipper now holds up strong and firmly again. And I see why, the coil was mounted the wrong way so the terminals are on the coil stop side and more prone to break. I’ll fix this too. Many thanks again, this is what I call pinside wisdom.

I confirm this, for me, personally, it's really a pain too.
I got side art decals and it's really an effort to pull up the playfield straight without scratching them. I got to take extreme care each time, and got to try few times before playfield locks or I can pull it straight.
My prop stick also looks like being stressed to the limit and so I use another two I did made by myself, to keep playfield steady when lifted.

These one are great I agree, they really make the playfield 3d and deeper. I did customize them with other parts to increase the effect and it's really cool, from the player's perspective you really see the playfield like it's extended.
I love the others too.

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Hi there, how did you connect these lighted post under the miniplayfield ? Super beatiful! Congratulations!

Me too I am interested as never saw a vid about TZ Colord DMD with smoothing on, very interested in upgrading to color dmd...

Buona fortuna e benvenuto, compagno di Twilight Zone
Good luck and welcome, italian Twilight Zone mate

Amenity? LOL I think you decided to add all the other stuff as amenity as pins were the thing . Nice place! I would spend quite a few hours drinking, eating and getting mad at nice pins.

I did them by myself after I destroyed my art blades (and bought new ones...), it's so easy, you can do it also with thin cardboard (custom cut and fold) and fix them on sides with paper masking tape and you are ok, they are enough to protect when you *carefully and slowly* lift playfield. By the way, TZ playfield is really heavy and difficult to lift keeping it perfectly aligned..

I'm in! This board would be a must for TZ fans.

Confirm, used Novus 3 and pvc pipe to hold the ball and was like new (+ approx 10 mins elbow grease)

Love it. Looks factory made! Very nice.

I say Double Wow !