I'll have to look at my premium to see where the trough wires go. If it is a node board, curious if there is another node board in the game it could be swapped with to verify. Stern's help line may be of help as well, or your local distributor.

have you traced the wires from the trough back to make sure one wasn't broke?

Ha! Ya there are two of those boards. The other is near the magna sling magnets.

You could swap those out, or even check it for solder breaks or bad competent on the board. I swear there was a thread about fixing the node boards....

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Cheapest and easiest is
Balls
Trough boards
Node board
And you know they want to try cheapest first, which makes sense if they are sending you parts. Just sucks to have a game down for a long time.

Please post up when you find the solution or try something!

I remember some of the Ethernet cables being pulled too tight. Try reseating the ethernets under the pf. Maybe some are too tight or pinched.

Also node boards daisy chain off each other, so an issue up front could lead to an issue in back.

Did you try swapping node boards yet?

Ohh good point. What code version are you running? Wonder if there is a firmware from stern to update the spike as well...

Also per spike version there were different sd card versions.