Fewer and cleaner backglass lamps
Many owners pull purely decorative lamps from behind the backglass, keeping those that light scores and game status, to slow paint fading. Replace any lamp whose glass has turned black or silvery, as these run hotter than clear ones.
Systems
- Williams System 3
- Williams System 4
- Williams System 6 / 6A
- Williams System 7
- Williams System 9
- Williams System 11
- Williams System 11A
- Williams System 11B
- Williams System 11C
- WPC Alpha-Numeric
- WPC Dot Matrix
- WPC Fliptronics
- WPC DCS
- WPC-Security (WPC-S)
- WPC-95
- Bally MPU AS-2518-17
- Bally MPU AS-2518-35
- Stern MPU-100
- Stern MPU-200
- Bally 6803
- Gottlieb System 1
- Gottlieb System 80
- Gottlieb System 80A
- Gottlieb System 80B
- Gottlieb System 3
- Data East CPU Version 1/2
- Data East CPU Version 3
- Data East/Sega CPU Version 3b
- Capcom
- Electro-mechanical
Related tips
- LED replacement lamps
- A group of lamps is out
- #555 and #259 wedge lamps
- Group of lamps out
- Lamp flickers or is out with a good bulb
- Single lamp out, dim or flickering
- Common pinball lamp numbers by base type
Source: Pinball Machine Care & Maintenance, Bernard B. Kamoroff (Bell Springs Pinball Alley)