Hurricane GI Issue

Check for a burnt connector.

Does this game have relays under the playfield at the back for the GI lights like Cyclone? If so, check the solder on the relays.

Put some pictures of inside your back box. Well lit good pictures so people can’t see and try help.

Check the traces on the back of the board leading to J120, it is likely that one could be burnt off. If the trace is good then check the driver transistors. The coin door lights may or may not be a separate issue but I would think they would be directly powered from a fused source and not switched by a driver transistor - but it could be.
Speaking of fuses.....you didn’t mention checking them; use a meter.

J120 pin 5, violet wire, needs to be moved over to the left to pin 6, according to the manual on page 3-12. hurricane pin GI (resized).png

Now with the violet at pin 6, can you ground the tab of Q12? This should turn it on if Q12 is bad or if the signal is not coming from J115.

Ok. I see the other problem. If you follow the trace from Q12 to J115, you will see that it is not connected to any wire at pin 12. So move the wire from pin 11 to pin 12 and there should be another jumper wire from between pin 10 to pin 11. There should be no wire going to pin 9. (Pinwiki for credit of the second picture) Hurricane J115 (resized).png
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Do you have a jumper between pins 10 and 11 now?

Looks like you should only need to add the jumper from pin 10 to pin 11. Sorry, I had edited post #13 probably at the time you were following just moving the 2nd wire without a jumper. I was following my T2 and see that I need a jumper in my game as well.

I also am not able to locate the J115 wiring in the manual. Here is where I got it from. http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_WPC#General_Illumination_Problems

For the wiring of J115 consult the schematic.

For WPC-89 it is on page 3 (Power Wiring Diagram - Sheet 1 of 1).
For WPC-89S it is on page 4 (Power Wiring Diagram - Sheet 2 of 2).

Note the colors for Terminator 2 and The Addams Family are YEL and YEL-WHT. The schematic documents the later scheme used from Doctor Who onwards.

Yes. It needs a jumper added.

Since a jumper is shorting between pins, it does not matter which on the 2 wires is the long one coming from the transformer. So, this will be the same answer for pins 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 7 and 8 as well as pins 10 and 11.

The wires to pins 1, 6, and 12 look to be in the correct pin locations.

That sounds like an insert lamp failure. You can go into the single lamp test and page through each lamp to see what all lamps are on at the same time. Might be a whole row or column or just the one. That would help to know.

If the lamp works correctly in the single lamp test and during game play, then that would be a bug in the game code. L-2 is the latest game code. You can see what version you have when you turn on the game.

Can you post a picture of the bottom right side of the driver board with the wiring connected?

Ok. I found a problem with the wiring on J136. The test results do not make any sence for what is connected, but I zoomed in on this connector because you can see the brand new bright white molex housing was installed. J136 pin 3 is correct according to the wiring chart, but pin 2 is not supposed to be there since the red wire is out of place. Further in the chart shows the red wire should go to J135 pin 7. So move this red/blue wire over to a new connector (.100" pin).

FYI, J133, J134, and J135 are all connected together so they can be moved around in any order as long as the right color wire is on the correct pin number.

Ex. J133 pin 1 is connected to J134 pin 1 and connected to J135 pin 1 via the traces between the connectors.

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That is great to hear. I was happy to lend my knowledge. It is how we'll keep these games working for many years. How about post a picture of your working game? Enjoy!!

I replied to your open thread yesterday to see how that's going. Waiting to hear back on that thread.

hows it going....i have hurricane pinball and no GI lights on playfield or back box are working and 30% of insert lights not working

-purchased the game had battery acid leak cpu board corroded 2 rows of resistors and a couple of the U chips underneath had leg corrosion game was asking to check fuse 114 and 115

-installed a new cpu board. game now boots up and plays as it should no errors but no gi lights and half insert lights out

-all led lights on driver board are lit up except 3 which is supposed be off.

-there is power at all of the lights not working

-the j115 plug had been plugged in upside down so i plugged in correct direction

-checked all plug positions on boards and wiring placement

-i put a jumper from Q12 and other 5 heat sink transitors going to gi, only one string of gi lit up. figured it was bad triac tranisitors had the 5 replaced. no change.

-following another thread talked about U1 on driver board links all the gi to go over to cpu which conrols dimming of all lighting. i've never really gone this deep but its getting a little pressure. was thinking of buying a new driver board but fear of not fixing the problem.

Sorry, I think you really need to create a new thread and show pictures of your game/boards/wiring.

Thank you. This is my first time posting. I just created a new post Hurrican No GI lighting.