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Old 07-09-2012, 07:53 PM
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Hi all! This is my first post here. I just own a pinball and it has a bunch of lights that are not working. Looking in the manual i found that the lamps that are not working are all in the same columns in the matrix.

The pinball is The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard

Columns not working are:

1 (yel/brown)
4 (yel/blk)
5 (yel/grn)
6 (yel/blu)
7 (yel/vio)

just 2,3 and 8 are working ok.
Where should i start? All fuses are ok.
TIA!!!

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well since they all seem to share that yellow wire
my bet is a break somewhere within it
or (gulp) hopefully it ain't the board that lights em up that is dying
do a lamp test thru bookkeeping and see which ones light up
it may be just one row of lights that share that wire and that is the cause of it
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Thanks for your reply
I tested the wires and all seem ok. I bet it's a issue in the mainboard
(it looks really bad) and that's out of my skills so i'll just look for professional help
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Thanks for your reply
I tested the wires and all seem ok. I bet it's a issue in the mainboard
(it looks really bad) and that's out of my skills so i'll just look for professional help

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