Great tip! I didn’t want to sacrifice one of my power packs so I took a chance with my Radio Shack DC utility power supply which puts out 14V. Worked great 👍

I performed this tip exactly as you described and it worked great on my Haunted House and Volcano! The displays look much better now! Thanks so much!

Ingenious! you and Frank are hilarious! Glad I found ya!

That's an amazing tip! Thanks Todd!

Great tip. Another tip to add about these displays. The 1MFD 100v orange capacitor should be replaced as standard practice especially when using a Pascal board as when these caps go a bit out of range due to age, they can cause HV fuse to blow.

Genius!!! Is there something similar you can do for the HV Bally/Williams displays?

Any tips when all 4 are dim? One display was super bright and all 8’s, I touched the edge connector checking for lose wire. Something popped (can’t find a fuse) and now all four show scores but are super dim.

Great video. Love watching all your videos! Do you know if this works for the System 80B 20 digit displays? Top one is fine but the bottom one is dim on my Excalibur.

There's no need to reverse the polarity. The main thing is to heat the filaments up until they glow gently to burn the crud off their surface. A battery does work too.

Great informative video, Let's have more like this.

What a great tip. Now I need a pinball machine. And room for one.

Hi man, that was awesome ! I have troubles with my Gottlieb Genie: While playing, the points are counted on counter1, then with the same ball it changes with no reason to count on counter 2, counter 3, counter4. If the switch "ball back at home" would be false tripped, it would count the bonus points, but it doesnt. It looks like a software bug.

awesome thanks for the tip!

That's an easy fix, good tip.

Nice Tip *.*

Can this also bee performd on a Gottlieb sys 80B display MA999 and how ?

HA! Loved the video! "A child could do it!" Seriously, thanks for the vid!

Nice! I wish I could download that fan music song, that was pretty nice too... I would listen to that on my lunch break! =)

This is a great help - Thanks. WEhen i used a 9V 1.5A adapter, the grid wires didnt get as red as i thought they would. The displays are brighter but not by a lot - Can you leave the DC voltage on longer?

How many amps was that 9v power plug?

Does it work on 16digit alphanumeric displays? Williams?

Can you do it on stearin machine

“Of course... a 👶🏻 child could do it.... a 👶🏻 child could do it!” Haha 😆

Hey Todd. I've become addicted to these videos. I've watched at least 70 so far (I jumped around a bit at first to get tips on my favorite machines)... at this point, I'm just working my way backwards. And let me tell you, I *had* to leave a comment here on this video. Imagine the angry guy pressing buttons all fastlike (well, I'm on my phone)... Go back and look what you did towards the end... you opened the door from the right side of the machine WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD!! I caught this, because I'd just watched video #975, and at 19:13, you instruct people to be careful with the internal wires because you have to HELP THEM in order to not mess things up!! YOU DID NOT SHOW THAT KIND OF CARE IN THIS VIDEO!! SHAME!! SHAME!! SHAME!! Ok, enough of the finger-wagging (I couldn't help myself!!). Keep up the great work. I hope to one day buy a machine from your shop. You should be proud of the excellent job you all do on these precious machines. Take care!!

This is dc voltage?

A+ music !

hola maestro soy de argentina tengo me callo a mi taller un flipper gottlieb sisten 1 genie el cual vino muy maltratado el flipper prende pero no enciende la pantalla de los creditos y en las dos pantallas de arriba aparecen solo numeros 222222222 2222222222 y en las de abajo todos ceros asi 0000000000 0000000000 no hace el bucle de 5 segundos nada solo aparece apenas se prende la maquina esos numeros podria darme una orientacion de lo q puede estar sucediendo yo soy tecnico electronico pero no conosco bien el sistema sisten 1 espero su respuesta muchas gracias y saludos desde argentina

Still works in 2020, y'all.

One must wonder how many pins just got trashed in the garbage when it could be fixed lol

it wasn't pretty, good tips

wouldn't say a child could do it unless it's with a 9 volt battery. hows the tongue. a child would probably see what happens if they touch the pins to their leg ouch. Safety first :) think nowadays when I replace outlets in the house knowing the clodhoppers that wire houses. I just turn the house power off. negats a nice jolt for idiotic wiring.