Any idea where to get this keypad circuit board at?

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Need a replacement for my Rush 2049. Hate to have to buy the whole keypad assembly on eBay when all I need is this board. Anybody know where to get a replacement?

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What is wrong with it? The board doesnt look horrible, and there isnt much that can go wrong with the boards themselves. The problem is usually the carbon contacts on the membrane of that style keypad. However, there have been others that have found a solution to difficult actuation/double actuation, etc... look here

It's also possible that you may be able to find a less spendy replacement with a Gurgle search for "3x4 phone keypad"... eyeballing the traces on the board you posted and looking at this one here, they both appear to be configured in a standard column/row arrangement... the pinouts are arranged differently, but repinning the cable should work if you can find a replacement keypad that can be mounted in place of the original.

EDIT* this might be a good candidate
EDIT #2 ^^^^^^^^^ this one appears to have the same pinout(in the same order) as the OG from '2049 with the notation that the original has an extra pin at one end that meets a trace that extends to the edges of the board in what I would assume to be a method of grounding the board to whatever chassis it "could" have been mounted to. In this case, mounting to plastic would negate that need. If it could be made to mount in the cabinet, it seems to be a suitable replacement at a great price. YMMV

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I have had success with cleaning that board up with a pencil eraser and then denatured alcohol (seriously) but ymmv.
I'm not sure exactly but maybe there was also a thin layer of some metal on the silicone nipple that helps actuate the switch and eventually it wears off and causes this failure?
I have never seen a new one so couldn't say.
 
There doesn't look too be anything wrong with the board, but if you do need a new one it wouldn't be difficult to create a new one in a EasyEDA and get PCBWay to manufacture it for you. That's what I would do.
 
Before I took the pictures I had cleaned it up with an eraser and used some electronics cleaner on it which is why it looks nice.

The issue I'm having with it, is nothing registers on it except the three bottom buttons. When you go into control testing and push those three buttons it registers that button along with the whole column above it, so say you push the "#", it will also register 3,6 and 9. Same goes for pushing "0". It will register 2,5 and 8.

I've cleaned off the rubber membrane and even tried using the bottom row of buttons on it on the other rows on the circuit board and it does nothing. So it has nothing to do with the rubber piece. It's either the circuit board or something else. I've been trying to trace where the wires from the keypad go. I'll have to look some more today. Maybe where that keypad connects to is loose or dirty.
 
That sounds like a problem on your game board, not the keypad.

Disconnect the keypad and short the left-most 2 pins in the keypad harness, and see if you get a single digit or the whole column -- that's the middle key in the top row.
Then short 3&4, which should be the bottom left key.
 
That sounds like a problem on your game board, not the keypad.

Disconnect the keypad and short the left-most 2 pins in the keypad harness, and see if you get a single digit or the whole column -- that's the middle key in the top row.
Then short 3&4, which should be the bottom left key.
So, I tried it with the two most left ones and didn't get any reading. But when I did 3&4 it lit up the whole left column. So, it sounds like the keypad is in the clear and like you said an issue with the game board. Which sucks, I was hoping it was going to be something simple like the little circuit board being bad.
 
That sounds like a problem on your game board, not the keypad.

Disconnect the keypad and short the left-most 2 pins in the keypad harness, and see if you get a single digit or the whole column -- that's the middle key in the top row.
Then short 3&4, which should be the bottom left key.
Wondering if maybe it's a voltage issue. The force feedback is spotty and when it tries to work it drains power to the music button light and makes it flicker. Just guessing since I have no idea where to begin looking on the game board to fix the keypad issue.
 
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