Here's the story (and I'm sticking to it!)...
I sold a Stern Lightning to a guy. He's had it for 3 weeks to a month. The guy called me saying that the ball won't shoot out to the shooter lane and I agree to come by to take a look thinking a leaf switch was out of adjustment and the table didn't "realize" the ball was sitting in the trough...
...nope.
NONE of the Solenoids are firing EXCEPT the flippers and the knocker. All the rest are no go. In test mode it jumps through all the solenoids doing nothing until it hits the knocker and then "knock".... of course the flipper don't flip either as that test doesn't pop off the flippers, but they do work as well. That said, I do have the flippers bypassing the relay... so they flip all the time... (old hack).
So I go to pull the solenoid driver board and it was laying against the front of the back box...it had come off the stand offs. I remove it and take a look. Nothing appears to be burned out... no noticeable broke traces, etc... it looks fine. I reflow the header pins just in case and hook it back up. Same issue... no solenoids fire except the knocker (and the flippers work).
Any suggestions? Dude is willing to lay out the dough for a new solenoid driver board, but I want to make sure the issue is in the driver board before I have him do that... I assume it could be a mainboard issue, right? I checked all the connectors on the main board and they were fine... but I didn't pull it out. The fact that the driver board had come loose has me leaning toward an issue with the driver board, but it would seriously suck ass if the guy bought a driver board only to find out that wasn't the issue.
Oh... I checked fuses as well and they appeared to be fine as well.
Any suggestions?
Anyone have a spare driver board they could loan me to help determine if the problem is the main or driver board?
HELP! I don't want the negative karma associated with selling someone a pin that dies after only a few dozen games.... but I ain't about to take it back either (not that he even suggested it).
I sold a Stern Lightning to a guy. He's had it for 3 weeks to a month. The guy called me saying that the ball won't shoot out to the shooter lane and I agree to come by to take a look thinking a leaf switch was out of adjustment and the table didn't "realize" the ball was sitting in the trough...
...nope.
NONE of the Solenoids are firing EXCEPT the flippers and the knocker. All the rest are no go. In test mode it jumps through all the solenoids doing nothing until it hits the knocker and then "knock".... of course the flipper don't flip either as that test doesn't pop off the flippers, but they do work as well. That said, I do have the flippers bypassing the relay... so they flip all the time... (old hack).
So I go to pull the solenoid driver board and it was laying against the front of the back box...it had come off the stand offs. I remove it and take a look. Nothing appears to be burned out... no noticeable broke traces, etc... it looks fine. I reflow the header pins just in case and hook it back up. Same issue... no solenoids fire except the knocker (and the flippers work).
Any suggestions? Dude is willing to lay out the dough for a new solenoid driver board, but I want to make sure the issue is in the driver board before I have him do that... I assume it could be a mainboard issue, right? I checked all the connectors on the main board and they were fine... but I didn't pull it out. The fact that the driver board had come loose has me leaning toward an issue with the driver board, but it would seriously suck ass if the guy bought a driver board only to find out that wasn't the issue.
Oh... I checked fuses as well and they appeared to be fine as well.
Any suggestions?
Anyone have a spare driver board they could loan me to help determine if the problem is the main or driver board?
HELP! I don't want the negative karma associated with selling someone a pin that dies after only a few dozen games.... but I ain't about to take it back either (not that he even suggested it).


