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After this I am using 5 Leds to make up the eyes to live and one mouth give us fire for a breath…

I used a 2,5mm drill to make the holes through the eyes and with the help of some inelastic copper wire it was easier to get the flexible copper wires through the holes.

3mm power leds in yellow for the eyes

5mm power led in red for the mouth

As the necks are bended I need to make more holes to get from the head to the chest

If you look from the normal pinball view to the Dragon you will not see the wires

I have to position the tail like this, so the ball will „ride“ over the ramp without trouble

Some pics in the pinball

The left wing was a little to high and there was a problem with the glass but no problem with the help of a heat-gun. So the wing is fitting under the playfield.

First Lightup

complete view

Today I got a transparent Plexi for the mouth.
Its a first beta try, have some other idea in mind and I will show it later…

Video:

Today I got the 3D plastic. It is scratched with firelines so it looks more real and the plastic transports the light of the led better as standard plastics.

Thanks to my wife to put two plastics together to make it more 3D

Here you can see it attached to the dragon

and finaly
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I done some more pictures and finaly got the wires through the neck. So you will see NO WIRES outsite of the dragon anymore!

Here you can see the cables you have only to connect it inbetween the flashercable of the dragon flasher

a dragonslayer at work!
This was needed to make the wires invisible. I got it and all wires are going insite the dragon.

If you want a Troll including this eye led mod you can order it here:

http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/14870

or sent me an email to klaus@wolfsoft.de and I will take care of you order. Please sent me your complete adress for checking the shipping costs.

I done the two holes first with a 1,5mm drill, then with a 2,5mm.
After this I drill a hole from the back to the eyes the holes are like a Y.

Look here:

First Led

This helps me to get the two flex wires though the hole:

both Eyes replaced by leds

first glow

dark glow

pics on the playfield will follow…

Preview without LED MOD

today I got the lasered plastics look here

I connected the feed with two screws and I don’t have trouble with airballs

free

Here you can see it in action:

Intstallation Manual

Here you find a video:

If you want a Simba including this eye led mod you can order it here:

http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/14872

or sent me an email to klaus@wolfsoft.de and I will take care of you order. Please sent me your complete adress for checking the shipping costs.
Here you can see how I add the green LEDs to the eyes.
I used a 2,5mm Drill and 3mm LEDs in green for the eye replacement. The installation is done solderless with the „croco“ connectors to the 28 bear playfield flasher with two 680 Ohm Resistors.

Drill 2,5 extra long into the

to get the cables out of the panther use a drill from downsite 8-9mm in diameter:

two green leds 3mm:

eyes pushed into the eye holes

connector to get the cables though the playfield without soldering

(the resistors are 680Ohm, because I saw too late it will not be connected not to a insert lamp. It will be connected to a flash-lamp)

first light up

dangerous in the dark…

with „croco“ connector to get it work at the flasher lamp

Here you can see it @ work:

I vectorized the outline of the plastics needed for connect simba to the playfield
Here is the new plastic with holes for the simba

connecting simba with two 2,5mm screws

the third leg is sitting on the plastic with the flash

Installation Manual

Video:

I found a King that looks similar to the king of the backglass. Next I will try the same in red…

Its time for ashes of the Dragon, now with two heads

After some drilling and cutting I the hole is big enough to put it over the lamp of the original dragon.

Here a some pictures from the first work in progress state

After some finetuning with a dremel, the dragon fits perfectly including the lamp to the original place of the „old“ dragon

with flasher lamp on under the dragon

red flasher right down on

I can take care of the modification for you in two ways.

a) You can sent me your ringmaster and I will add the two Leds for you
b) You can order a complete new ringmaster including this modifcation

Video:

Here you see some pictures how I done this mod.

First I removed some of the PCV holding the eye to get a closer look.

After some modifing a standard 5mm blue LED

Some shrinking tube to get the light only where it belongs

First testing with one led insite

both eyes light up

In the darkness

Now its time to remove the original ringmaster and have a deeper look to the Flasher.
I have to remove some part of the shrinking tube to solder the wires for the blue leds

I put some connector between, to make it easy to assemble/de assemble

I uses 330 Ohm for each blue 5mm LED and wired it this way

red wire from the Pinball is plus

blue wire is GND

So here is the standard Archer Mod for it.

For the new archer is a new plastic needed cutted with a laser…

The plastic need a little modification for the arrowhead but no problem

Here you can see the blank plastic

left the original one, right the empty plastic

here you see both new archer on the plastics

left one zoomed

right one zoomed

So the deluxe Edition was born…

If you want some you can buy it at wolfsoft.de

Or look here for the attack from the merlins – a funny – link

Installation Manual

The deluxe  have to more features:

a) blue Color replaced by yellow. So it fitts better to the medieval Theme.

b) a flasher effect of the ball in red

Step a):

I done some modifications on the Merlin Mod.  As blue is not my favorite color, I decided to make yellow for the Merlins Magic Insert instead of blue.  This color fitts better to the MM theme.

Therefore I need more Leds. I found some SMD-RGB Leds and put them on the 5mm LED as you see in the following pictures.

So I have to add 8 wires to the „combo LED“.

Step 2:

I wanted to integrate a flasher effect. So I added a 3rd SMD-Led for this, because of the different Voltage Supplys in the pinball. The Led is connceted parallel to the right down flasher.

And all 8 wires must go through the little arm of the Merlin:

Its very small and you need a lot of soldering experience…

In the last state I was in search for the needed molex connectors and found them.

So its possible to make these Mod complete solderless. You have only to connect the Merlin in beetween Magic Hole Insert and the flasher right down.

Here you can see howto add the wires to the playfield:

connect the „combo“ to the Insert PCB

add the flasher molex here

Some picture of the final merlin

Video:

The Attack from the Merlins!

last week I tried to illuminate a Merlin with a blue Led.

If you want a Merlin including this magic RGB-LED you can order it right here

This works good, but I have a better idea in mind. Put a RGB-Led into the Magic Ball.

The hardest part was to get the hole into the glass. A lot of Balls was destroyed during the making…

I am using a powerfull 5mm RGB-Led and reduce the size so it fits into the glas ball:

Now Its time to make place for the wires into the merlin

And here some wiring:

The LED:

First Impressions: Red,Green,Blue

Be on wire:

common plus site of the rgb LED (Pin2):

shematic:

In the final Version we will use shrinking tube and Molex Connectors so you have only to connect it in between to molex parts.

Look here for the molex Version, no soldering, only some doublesided adhesive needed

At the final place:

Video: