Good thing you're putting in LEDs... you'll never have to do this again!

Easiest AND best solution for lighting up Segas instead of tearing down to replace the GI bulbs - DIY stadium style lighting. Unless you need to tear down the playfield to shop it out, then best to leave the normal GI bulbs in and light the playfield evenly with stadium LED lights.

Recently made a set of lights for Twister and the game looks super.

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The Sega games are rough. I just did a Baywatch and it was a pain too. Maybe the worst one i have taken apart yet. There was an order to assembling the layers of ramps and if you get it wrong you gotta take stuff back off. In hindsight i wish i would have ripped out the staples and gotten the bulbs from the underneath, but did give me a chance to clean under the layers of ramps which hadn't been gotten to in nearly 10 years since i first shopped it out.

My Data East LAH has one incandescent left in it because to change that one essentially means stripping out 3/4 of the playfield. non of the GI's are accessible from under the playfield.

X-Files was my first and so far only LED conversion. Good to know that most pins are easier. I did the insert lights a little bit at a time over a series of several nights. I remember the ones under the subway being a particular pain because I couldn’t get the subway out without substantially loosening the wiring harness, so I had to kind of cram my hands under it. As for the GI, I too did it from the top, but I was doing a full tear down and cleaning anyway. That alone took about 7-8 hours. The only bulbs that are still incandescent are the ones in the alien tube because they are just in the most inaccessible looking location I can imagine. If one goes out, I’ll finally tackle it, but I really have no desire to.

When I did our X-Files I ended up cleaning all the ramps and plastics... also did a rubber kit too to make the *pain* worth it.

hope you are doing them in all white, because it would suck if you had to do them all over again.

I’m almost positive they do. I didn’t do any desoldering or soldering when I removed them.

Youll need those "instant LEDs"...Just a snap of your fingers, and all the bulbs are changed!!

Kidding....I seriously feel your pain!

they did on baywatch. Most where well packed into the wire harness and secured with zippy ties. I had to cut more than a few zippy ties i probably replaced last time i shopped it out.

pindoc1 - worth the effort, it looks amazing.

Nice job! X Files looks great with LEDs. When I got the pin, it had all old incandescent bulbs in it, and each insert and bulb had a nice coating of black coil dust. I didn’t even know the inserts were different colors until I cleaned them. After putting all color matching LEDs in, the game took on a whole new life.

They have smaller bulbs that will fit in the coin and start buttons? Where do you find them?

LED's done perfect. Great work.Glad you resisted the urge to do purple or green. This game you can actually play.....if you want to.

Looks crisp and clean! Glad to see sparkly, well light, ramps that aren't muddied with green and purple.