Just got this Creach back together and it is blowing Fuse 114. I've seen a couple of light issues that I thought was the culprit but it is still there lerking. Most recently it started to act like it was going to blow the fuse, kind of did a partial reset with lights going out for a second. During that couple second reset I could hear a very faint click click click click. I'm not great at diagnosing but my gut is wondering if BR1 could be occasionally shorting out. Any help much appreciated. Charlie

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Thanks, it has played now for a total of about 2 hours without blowing a fuse. There is still an issue with the paid lights being on almost all the time. I'm guessing bad socket or logic chip issue.

No, I haven't done anything to the board yet.

Thank you all for helping me jump start my little pea brain. My best guess is that the admit 1 lamp socket was bent back just enough to make contact on the metal back vent screen which shorted out Q98. A special thanks to Perry at Pookie's Pinballs for hooking me up with a new transistor. The only help I can be to those paranoid types out there like me who don't trust their soldering is that the new transistor checked out a little differently when comparing it to the others in regards to the middle leg and tab. I guessed that it was good after running some continuity checks and it looks like my luck has swung back to the good and lights are all working correctly.