Raven
Gottlieb, 1986I've got connectors coming from GPE to do some work on my Raven, sys80b. I was going to pull the head's wiring harness out, but it continues on into the cabinet & I don't want to pull every connector.
Has anyone added a connector between the head & cab of a sys80b? If it can be done, what type of connector would I need? I haven't bothered counting wires yet. I thought I'd first see if it could be done or if it's not recommended.
Yeah, I know, but crimping all those Molex crimps while standing at the side of the game's gonna be a pain. I really don't want to have to pull the whole harness out.
Have you ever had to do this Lloyd? What did you do?
Quoted from Topher5000:I've got connectors coming from GPE to do some work on my Raven, sys80b. I was going to pull the head's wiring harness out, but it continues on into the cabinet & I don't want to pull every connector.
Has anyone added a connector between the head & cab of a sys80b? If it can be done, what type of connector would I need? I haven't bothered counting wires yet. I thought I'd first see if it could be done or if it's not recommended.
You shouldn't have to put a connector in. If you disconnect the connectors for the boards in the head, that should take care of pretty much everything.
Like LTG says, adding a connector you don't really need simply introduces a new point of failure.
Besides even the new point of failure, I feel like you'd spend more time adding a connector here than you'd spend just removing and re-connecting the cables when you need to disassemble it. How often are you really taking the head off where you need to save 60 seconds doing this?
Yeah, good points. I don't think I'll bother pulling the whole harness out & just do it at the pinball game. The hard part's removing the old crimps, but since I'm using new ones I don't have to & it should go pretty quick.
Nate1981s, the problem I'm having is no sound. Actually, I'm getting sound now, but it's real low & it's wrong. Hopefully the new connectors fix it.
If you check out my 'no sound' thread, you'll see what another pinsider, Erak, did to my game & what I've tried since.
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