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Any serious problems with Spike yet?

By sandersj

8 years ago


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#45 8 years ago

We've had issues with few of our games on route, but overall they've been rock solid.

LED lights used to illuminate the backbox on WWE CPU board went dark within a week. Stern replaced the CPU, solved.

Node board fried on KISS when a coil used by one of the pops shorted internally. That's not supposed to kill the board, but it did. Stern replaced the coil and node board, solved.

We've been very happy with Stern's support - Chas is awesome!

#56 8 years ago
Quoted from DNO:

So are the node boards interchangeable throughout the game? Flipper nodes included.
Seems you could swap them around to test them out in a game, narrowing problem to the node.

In general, yes. There are a handful of specific boards, and like inhomearcades said they're interchangeable as long as you change the dip switches properly. It's a great design. However, if the problem with the node board going out is something up/down-stream, you could smoke the replacement if it's not corrected first. Shouldn't happen, but it's possible.

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#171 7 years ago
Quoted from flecom:

not likely, the node boards each have a microcontroller that would have to be purchased preprogrammed (not likely at stern numbers) or programmed via JTAG or something after the boards are assembled
it would be unlikely they would integrate a system to program unprogrammed node boards from the main CPU board, that would be very impressive but I would bet against that

Each node board has a set of switches to identify which board it is in the chain. The controlling is then done by the CPU. When updating software or replacing a node board, they're initialized as well. I'm not sure exactly what that does to the board, but probably does some sort of programming to the individual nodes. We've had a few node boards fail on location (GoT Premium and KISS) in the last year. Talk to your distributor and work with Stern - they'll take care of you.

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