The easiest way to do this is to run a wire from the green-white-red 1000 point relay tab to the green-red 7B index relay tab. This allows 5000 points AND WOW. However...

there's an issue with this ... you are awarded a WOW + 5K when NOT maxed out on WOWs as well. Since this is the case, it doesn't match the playfield text, stating "5000 points OR Wow".

To allow 5000 points ONLY when WOWs maxed out is a bit more complicated, most likely an additional switch tied to the WOW Advance Unit EOS switch, that trips a MAX WOWS relay, enabling 5000 point scoring on lit targets. Obviously you'd have to wire in the path to the 1000 relay, and the hold path on the new relay as well. Really wouldn't be hard; I'll keep you posted on progress.

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This mod is now completed, and it works GREAT! Now it does what the playfield says - even if you've maxed out your WOWS - 5K for lit drop targets instead of no score.

I did have an issue where the new MAX WOWS relay, pulsed by the newly added and now closed EOS switch on the Advance WOW unit, was resulting in 3K score on the 5th wow... so I added a switch to score motor 4D into the circuit to delay the timing of the new relay energizing, and added a HOLD switch on this relay to continue enabling this relay until the next ball is kicked to the shooter.

I plan on adding the circuit changes here, and will do that shortly.

Sorry for the low tech drawings... pop me a note if you need further explanations of any of these circuit changes.

Just to clarify - MAX WOWS is a new relay added to the back box... it has two NO switches and is used to bridge the 1000PT relay (L) to the SERIES relay (7B) when maximum number of wows (5) is reached. It is also used to HOLD in the relay until the next ball is brought before the shooter.

Two additional switches are required:

1) A NO switch attached to the top of the existing switch stack that rides on the rotating disc of the Wow Advance Unit. This is used (along with new switch 4D) to allow powering of the new relay only when maximum number of WOWS (5) is reached.
2) A NO switch attached to the 4D position score motor position. This is used to delay the closing of the new relay to avoid phantom scoring. A nylon spacer should be used on the existing inner switch blade to help push the new switch closed when the switch dog engages the position.
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Any news on availability of the backglass and playfield kit for the conversion pinhead52 ?

Excellent news! Looking forward to the opportunity.

If interested, how do we get on the list for this project?

Awesome, will do!

I'm still interested but have not found a Team One yet. Have only seen one for sale and the price on that one was high. If someone finds one for sale please let me know. I can pickup games from the midwest (Nebraska) all the way to the east coast. I make regular runs between North Carolina to Nebraska. Also trip's to Florida and Georgia happen several times a year. I should be able to find a Team One somewhere in those area's. I am also willing to pickup Team Ones for other's wanting to join this project.

How much it will cost for buying a Team One with all the Abra Ca Cabra AAB change directly from you?With shipping to Canada?

That's actually reasonable I think. Are you thinking that the cabinet art would match the current Abra art, or perhaps something different?

Mine is definitely going into an earlier shallower body cabinet.

Sounds like a plan

Reminder to this thread please. If someone is willing to part with a nicer Team One backglass, I would like to get it from you. My reds are flaking/fading.

Yes, I know I can BGrestro it, but was hoping to find original and perhaps cheaper.

Thanks.

PM sent.

Excellent news, looking forward to this. Wade has my Team One to assist him with this project.

What is the reference he makes to Strange World in relation too?

Ah nice!

There’s a Team one for sale in Minneapolis CL for $950 and been there over a month.

Yes please pinhead52 . I sent you a PM to register my interest way back when you first announced the possibility of the kit, along with a post in this thread. As a result, I already thought I was on your list? Please confirm that. As it was the sole reason why I bought the game and offered it to Wade.

Double post

You can put me down for confirmed.

Nice! Wade's certainly does nice work, 2nd to none.

Yes, please count me in, I think this is a fantastic project. It's funny because I had been toying for a few years with the idea of somehow hacking an Abra-Ca-Dabra to make it play with the Team One ruleset. But this kit idea is 1000 times better! I'm really happy that you are doing this.

I owned an Abra-Ca-Dabra back in the late 1970s that I bought from my boss for $200 when we pulled it off location. I sold it when I moved to Los Angeles in 1985, and I have always been sorry that I sold it. I acquired a Team One several years ago here in Seattle, and as much as I like the AAB game play, for me the art package is extremely weak. I think this is a perfect example of how important the art theme is to a game, and I agree that Team One would be much more fun to play if it were re-themed with the Abra-Ca-Dabra art. And what a great idea to change the 1-2-3-4-5-6 to W-I-Z-A-R-D. It's quite a lucky break that the game name is six letters long, and all the letters are different.

- TimMe

Ken, thanks for managing this project... it's going to be so incredibly awesome to have the guts in my team-one adorn WIZARD... I'm going all out too... doing a lacquer cabinet repaint just like stock... the goal is to have this game look just like it did off the assembly line back in the mid-70s... woo-hoo baby!!!

Gonna be sweet!!!