Hello everyone, first post on the site here. I recently put in new LED bulbs into our CV, we’ve owned it for about 15 years now. I am having a few issues with a few bulbs. I have tested these bulbs and the sockets they are in, in other parts of the machine to make sure it is not them and they work fine in other locations. The first one is the middle purple light in front of the ringmaster. It is on sometimes but randomly goes off when it should be on. I can’t quite figure out why. Could it be an issue with the printed board?

Secondly the O-W lights on the WOW bird are also not lighting up. Again the O sometimes lights up but very infrequently. Does anyone have experience with these? Do I need to take the boards off and maybe re-run solder for the sockets or for the pins on the plugs?

Thirdly, I put an LED flasher in the ringmaster but it is only lighting up the right half of his face, does anyone have a fix for this issue as well?

Buzz yeah its not the bulbs. ive tried a few, even though its so hard to get to the socket. Ill take it off this weekend and see if re flowing solder on sockets and maybe the pin connector works. I had a similar issue on my addams family and had to re-flow solder on pins of the connector on the GREED light board. i was just seeing if maybe there was something else to test before i rip it all apart to get that tiny board off.

@mschonbrun any ideas for getting that board off without having to remove too much other things? can it sneak out if the two screws are removed?

@mschonbrun any idea how many hours i should plan to do it? are you sure the two screws cant just be removed on the WOW board and then slide it out the bottom?

@mschonbrun what exactly has to be removed do you have any pics? im not home during the week this week to check.

thank you appreciate it @mschonbrun

@mschonbrun of i got that all off and fixed them - reflowing solder worked. Found out the right side of the ringmaster was being held in with one screw that was half out . I have another question though, i am having some issues with some solenoids after playing a while. The cannon in the backbox does not have enough strength to get the ball up, same with a few other solenoids, like the right flipper cant get it up the ramp it isn't strong enough, do you know of anything that would be causing weak solenoids? are they individual issues or is there a power driver issue maybe? if you know of anyone else that have had this problem please let me know thank you

How do i measure that? i have a volt meter but where are the points?