Quoted from PrettyBoyJack:After step 2 I got lucky and put about 150 games on the machine without incident.
So has the top saucer failed since?
Quoted from PrettyBoyJack:3.) Checked the pins on my solenoid driver board to make sure they weren't "cold" and needed re-soldered
The picture showing the J2 pin header has some cracked solder joints, worst are pins 1 and 2 which are for each flipper.
Quoted from PrettyBoyJack:A few weeks ago my game suddenly blew the f4 fuse. I posted on the forum here and someone directed me to put a new bridge rectifier in and that seems to have solved my problems for now but I can't help but wonder if the two are related as I still don't know what caused the original F4 Fuse blow.
A short circuit/locked on issue with the saucer coil would have blown the 1 amp slow blow fuse under the playfield near the flipper mechs (unless someone previously over fused that playfield fuse). So provided the playfield fuse is proper spec, F4 on the rectifier board blowing is unrelated.
Quoted from PrettyBoyJack:I think that I need to rebuild the connectors on my transformer board and maybe my J2 and J5 on my solenoid driver board. I think that power is not being transferred to those solenoids but
Out of curiosity, what are you trying to fix by doing this?