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I wanted to share a project I've been working on lately. I recently installed sunlight white LEDs in my Last Action Hero GI, and while I love the color, the brightness and the flashing of the GI was startling to your eyes, and made playing the game difficult. Inspired by herg's wonderful GI OCD product for B/W games, I dug into the DE schematics and it was clear I could design a PCB that would help with this problem:
This PCB takes the 4 GI strings that are normally controlled by a single relay (you all know the clicking in the backbox right?) and controls them individually via a microcontroller with solid state electronics and High Speed PWM.
What does this mean? Well for one, you have a lot of control over the brightness and ramp rate:
* Each GI String is individually programmable
* Set the maximum brightness for each GI string of LEDs
* Set the minimum brightness for each GI string of LEDs (you can elect for dim instead of fully off)
* Set the ramp up and ramp down rates for each GI string of LEDs (full range, from fast to very slow several seconds of rise/fall)
* Push-button control for easy programming on the fly
* Plug and play
The EnerGI Maestro Kit is now available for Pre-Order! The price will be $115 plus shipping. Expected shipping begins in February 2015. If you would like to pre-order, please browse over to this link and submit your info to be added to the list. If you have already PM'd please use the link to make sure you are included on the list:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1v9XU6DEoo5d2gyJXsGQ7y_68gRt6k-NtUBoKPPjzYlo/viewform
There is no money due now, and if you need to change your mind later, that's okay; I just need to get an idea of quantity to order for the first batch.
***BONUS***
A bounty of $10 will be awarded to each customer that posts a pic to this thread showing the board installed in a previously untested machine.
A bounty of $20 will be awarded to each customer that posts detailed instructions how to tweak connectors, wiring, etc to make the board work on a system that it was not designed to work on
***Limit one bounty per board purchased***
TESTED / CONFIRMED TO BE COMPATIBLE
Back to the Future
Hook
Lethal Weapon 3
Jurassic Park
Last Action Hero
Tales from the Crypt
Baywatch
EXPECTED TO BE COMPATIBLE
Laser War
Secret Service
Torpedo Alley
Time Machine
Playboy 35th
Robocop
Phantom of the Opera
Simpsons
Checkpoint
TMNT
Batman
Star Trek 25th
Star Wars
Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Who
WWF
GNR
Maverick
Frankenstein
Batman Forever
POSSIBLY COMPATIBLE
High Speed
Grand Lizard
Road Kings
Pinbot
F-14 Tomcat
Fire
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_p8sZdFL_rs?autoplay=1&rel=0
Last Action Hero Before and After Video
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_RvIWDIckxc?autoplay=1&rel=0
Installation Video
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HbUlMuGlPSA?autoplay=1&rel=0
Programming
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LmA1aaiDiSM?autoplay=1&rel=0
Features
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GBMa_79WprQ?autoplay=1&rel=0
Kit
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There is a link above to sign up with some information such as your pinside name, email and which kit you would like to order otherwise you can follow more progress in this thread here and sign up for a pinside account.
pinside link: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/led-gi-smoother-for-data-east
I wanted to share a project I've been working on lately. I recently installed sunlight white LEDs in my Last Action Hero GI, and while I love the color, the brightness and the flashing of the GI was startling to your eyes, and made playing the game difficult. Inspired by herg's wonderful GI OCD product for B/W games, I dug into the DE schematics and it was clear I could design a PCB that would help with this problem:
This PCB takes the 4 GI strings that are normally controlled by a single relay (you all know the clicking in the backbox right?) and controls them individually via a microcontroller with solid state electronics and High Speed PWM.
What does this mean? Well for one, you have a lot of control over the brightness and ramp rate:
* Each GI String is individually programmable
* Set the maximum brightness for each GI string of LEDs
* Set the minimum brightness for each GI string of LEDs (you can elect for dim instead of fully off)
* Set the ramp up and ramp down rates for each GI string of LEDs (full range, from fast to very slow several seconds of rise/fall)
* Push-button control for easy programming on the fly
* Plug and play
The EnerGI Maestro Kit is now available for Pre-Order! The price will be $115 plus shipping. Expected shipping begins in February 2015. If you would like to pre-order, please browse over to this link and submit your info to be added to the list. If you have already PM'd please use the link to make sure you are included on the list:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1v9XU6DEoo5d2gyJXsGQ7y_68gRt6k-NtUBoKPPjzYlo/viewform
There is no money due now, and if you need to change your mind later, that's okay; I just need to get an idea of quantity to order for the first batch.
***BONUS***
A bounty of $10 will be awarded to each customer that posts a pic to this thread showing the board installed in a previously untested machine.
A bounty of $20 will be awarded to each customer that posts detailed instructions how to tweak connectors, wiring, etc to make the board work on a system that it was not designed to work on
***Limit one bounty per board purchased***
TESTED / CONFIRMED TO BE COMPATIBLE
Back to the Future
Hook
Lethal Weapon 3
Jurassic Park
Last Action Hero
Tales from the Crypt
Baywatch
EXPECTED TO BE COMPATIBLE
Laser War
Secret Service
Torpedo Alley
Time Machine
Playboy 35th
Robocop
Phantom of the Opera
Simpsons
Checkpoint
TMNT
Batman
Star Trek 25th
Star Wars
Rocky & Bullwinkle
The Who
WWF
GNR
Maverick
Frankenstein
Batman Forever
POSSIBLY COMPATIBLE
High Speed
Grand Lizard
Road Kings
Pinbot
F-14 Tomcat
Fire
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_p8sZdFL_rs?autoplay=1&rel=0
Last Action Hero Before and After Video
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_RvIWDIckxc?autoplay=1&rel=0
Installation Video
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HbUlMuGlPSA?autoplay=1&rel=0
Programming
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LmA1aaiDiSM?autoplay=1&rel=0
Features
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GBMa_79WprQ?autoplay=1&rel=0
Kit
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a link above to sign up with some information such as your pinside name, email and which kit you would like to order otherwise you can follow more progress in this thread here and sign up for a pinside account.
pinside link: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/led-gi-smoother-for-data-east