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Help No GI - MET Premium

By badbilly27

7 years ago



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#1 7 years ago

I just opened my NIB Met Premium. Checked all connections, turned it on and......no GI.

Any suggestions? I'm tracing all wires again but don't see anything. Thanks in advance

#2 7 years ago

Check the fuses? Maybe g.i.fuse isn't pushed all the way in or pre-blown.

#3 7 years ago

There's a cat5 network cable that connects from the head to the RGB board under the playfield and this seems to control all the data to enable and disable the GI as well as regioned GI and flickering GI. I'd start there and then make sure the board is plugs into under the playfield has power. Do the RGB inserts work correctly?

#4 7 years ago

Fuses all have red led lit so think those are fine.

#5 7 years ago

I had the same problem a wire in the back box was loose. That's where I would check

#6 7 years ago

markmon that was it. The cat5 cable was seated but the connection to the board underneath was too taught. I unplugged it pushed in the connector again and it lit up nicely. Thank you!

Check out this pic of the cat5 at the top in the backbox. Sure looks like it wasn't spliced right. But it's working so I'm happy.

btw...when the cross comes up for multi-ball is it supposed to stay up? Seems to fall back down after rising.

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#7 7 years ago

That splicing is because they used 8 pair cat5 but a 6 connector plug and only need 6 wires so it's normal. I have a lot of issues with my gi flickering and wiggling that cat5 stuff around fixes it for a while. I mean to recrimp the cable but it's working most the time and I forget.

#8 7 years ago
Quoted from badbilly27:

Check out this pic of the cat5 at the top in the backbox. Sure looks like it wasn't spliced right. But it's working so I'm happy.

Wow, that's beyond terrible. If its a standard connector, the crimp is made to bite on the jacket for strength (regardless of # of wires used). There is basically nothing holding that together.

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