I haven't read anything about this in the other related topics and I think it's severe enough to start a new topic. I have an email out to Stern but I would like to maybe try something while I'm waiting. Had the machine less than 2 weeks and probably around a 100 plays. Yesterday turned on the machine and balls wouldn't load. My co-worker at first thought I stole the balls out of the machine. No.

First I tested the coils and they were all not working except flippers, cannon rotation and some of the flashers. Fuses 7 and 8 were blown. Replaced them, turned on machine and then fuses 5, 7 and 8 blew. Replaced them and watched the fuses as the machine was attempting to power up. It seems fuse 8 is the first one to blow, the red lite never lites solid on fuse 8 before it blows. The red lite on the other fuses seem to light solid before they blow.

I'm out of 3 amp fuses. It's a Premium running on the new update.

Anybody have an idea where to start troubleshooting?

Hopefully I get some fuses soon if I can get a volunteer from work to go to Radio Shack. I emailed Patrick at Stern too, last night. Thank you both. I'll update.

Replaced blown fuse. I disconnected J9=high current solenoids=blow Fuse 8.

Disconnected J8=high current solenoid=blow fuse 8.

Disconnected J10 "voltage outputs" and NO BLOW fuse. Seems the J10 causing problem. Its the power line connection per manual. J9 and J8 are called the D.T.(drive transistor?) Control Line connect.

Yes, Patrick and I are working on it. Thanks. I'll update.

Patrick's been helpful in the past. Trouble shooting by email takes a lot of patience(not my best quality). Im guessing there's a short somewhere(no s..t Dick Tracy) but I have no idea how you would track it down. We will figure it out. Throw gas on it and see where the fire starts. I manually moved the coils to see if there was one bound up and they seemed fine. It makes a humming sound on power up and Fuse 8 quickly blows. I have found that my first impressions on these issues are, many times, not correct. I'm guessing maybe a faulty ground. See previous sentence.

Thanks. I tried to locate the source of the hum but I only had about 3 secs to fuse blow and it's a little unsettling to test that way. Couldn't point out that source of the hum. I like the idea of the circuit breaker. Thank goodness fuses are not expensive.

I disconnected the plug with the 2 black wires coming out of that magnet. No luck-still blew fuse on power up.

Maybe I got the DC/AC.