Joining the club soon... first JJP, first widebody. Exciting times! It's a stock ECLE w/ 7.5 boards & the Mirco playfield... it only has about 30 plays so I'd like to keep it nice. I'm not going to put enough plays on it to warrant a full cliffy set, but are there any individual must-haves for trouble areas I should pick up?

Cheers!

Thanks I’ll pick that guy up. It can’t possibly be worse than removing every white water ramp, replacing all the switches, and re-assembling, right? Because that was NOT a good time!

Just want to give a shout out to Frank at JJP tech support.

I recently acquired my first JJP game, an ECLE w/ 7.5 buffered boards. After transport the majority of the lights went out. DOH. Picked up some longer cables and traced it to three big ones and three GI, they were kind of all over the place in the chain.

I was all set to bite the bullet and do the 2.0 upgrade, as six is just too many light boards to replace... but Frank suggested I first inspect the fuse lights in the power board. Sure enough, one of them (F2) was dark, so I followed his next steps and unplugged the power from W1, and F2 lit right up. I then reconnected the boards with just W1 bypassed... everything came back on, amazing.

He also helped me work out a couple other random gremlins, and I'm basically 100% dialed in now. Very impressed with this level of support for an out of warranty machine!

If I'm still as excited about this game a year from now I'll most likely do the kit upgrade, which he graciously offered to lock the current price at should it go up. But for now, he set up an exchange for a very reasonable cost and I'll just swap it out, enjoy, and focus on educating myself on the 300 pages of rules

Mine was an exchange for substantially less than the $250 a new one costs, but still $$$ of course as I'm out of warranty. PM'd you the details as I don't want to proclaim this is any kind of a universal system, and presume they make arrangements on a case by case basis.

Happened to me as well yesterday for the first time. Fine after reboot. I’ve also had the purple ubutnu boot screen stay up and clear itself after 5 minutes. Great game, just has some quirky gremlins that come out sometime

At least on my ECLE, the lights stay on the entire time due to the way the game was wired and your limited choice of what to tap into. I have 7.5 buffered boards but I was told it's the physical game version itself that limits your ability... mine goes into the Wizard LED and can't go into any of the little GI boards. However, I do have a 2.0 kit I'm installing the next time something goes out, and that should make it more interactive. Happy enough to have the GI boost, make a big difference and I have them set pretty low so it's still dynamic feeling. But yeah, would be cool if the game would go dark sometimes.

Scott told me that was a bad idea, you'll note the multiple versions of Woz installs on the pin stadium page. Seeing how testy the lighting system is I'm definitely not willing to try haha.

Yup, $800 plus another $20 to ship. Mine are in a box for a rainy day, my 7.5 buffered are fine so not gonna install until something breaks.

These things rule, slap em on and lift the playfield to your heart's content!

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Pretty much exactly like that