Playboy
Bally, 1978Tried recapping my sound board out of my Bally Playboy this week, something I’ve never done before, and did a very stupid thing.
Evidently I put all the caps in backwards. I read the polarity markings on the cap kit backwards.
Lesson learned, but is this board irretrievably borked?
Hopefully no other collateral damage beyond this on my other boards.
Valuable lesson and some good soldering practice, but before I find a replacement wanted to see if there’s any hope of saving it.
Has power been applied to the board? If so, then you need to install new ones again. If no power has been applied, then you can just turn them around.
Quoted from PinballManiac40:Has power been applied to the board? If so, then you need to install new ones again. If no power has been applied, then you can just turn them around.
yep, powered up. Heard the speaker pop then nada.
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