I haven't had issues with it before now. I was playing as normal. Suddenly the game rebooted and then none of the coils would fire. Well when I started a game the coil that feeds the ball to the shooter was firing very weak... enough to raise the ball but not enough to make it leave the plunger much less get into the shooter lane. None of the flashers would work either. I checked and I believe it was Fuse 111 blown. I replaced with the appropriate fuse and turn the machine on. It came on just enough for the DMD to flash the splash page and the game shut down. It will not turn on at all now. I left the game alone and have been out of town since. I return tonight and would like some advice from anyone willing to point me in the right direction to start checking. I've heard bridge rectifiers can wreak havoc. I am not familiar with how to check them but I am a fast learner. Thanks to all who reply. I'll post again as soon as I get home and get to check things further.

A horror indeed! I love this pin.

The contacts in the cord and the contact in the cabinet it connects to look nice and shiny. I checked power at the voltage at the service plug and its 121.4V which is exactly what I get at the wall socket.

I remembered wrong. It is the F112 solenoid secondary fuse that blew. F111 is fine. Also the main line filter fuse was blown and this is of course why the game shut down dead. I replaced it and left the f112 blown fuse in rather than replace it at this point. It fires up just fine. Of course no solenoids or flashers.

One thing to note. This is apparently a re-import. The sticker inside states it runs on 230V and it has a 5A SB fuse rather than the 8A fuse listed for domestic games. 5A slow blow is listed for the foreign game. Not sure if I should replace with a regular 8A fuse since its been converted or leave it alone. Better to be under fused than over and its not blown before.

As far as LEDs on the driver board; There are 4 of them and all are lit solid. I reseated all the connectors for the solenoids (j107, j122, j126, j127, j130, j902, j907). All look proper adn were seated well. All the contacts and connectors look shiny. However when I got to GI connectors J120 looks fine but J121 has been hacked (before me). I know I need to replace this and put on a new connector. I believe I have the correct tools to do this as I anticipated in the past I will probably end up needing to do this one day. However my GI is working fine. Would this be a culprit to the F112 and line filter fuse blowing?

A bit more inspection and the boards are very snug and screwed in tightly so they are not loose from their mounts. BR 3 and 4 look as if they have gotten warm over time. Can be seen in the pictures I'm including as well as pic of the hacked molex J121 and pics of the board with LED's lit. The flash makes it hard to tell but yes the LED's are lit solid.

I really dont want to replace the F112 fuse until I can figure out what is going on.

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AHA! I missed LED5. It is not lighting up. But when I shut the coin door it lights up. LED's 2 and 3 are not installed on this board.

I replace the line fuse with an 8A. Replaced the F112 fuse. Turned it one fine. As soon as I shut the coin door F112 flashed and blew. No hesitation. All the solenoids; shooter feeder, shooter, slings, turbo feeder and pops will give a weak pulse when their switch is activated but no indication of power at all in solenoid test mode. The flippers don't try to work either way. I moved all these coils' plunders and mechanics by hand from underneath the playfield and they all move freely. I don't think I have stuck. When I shut the coin door the fuse blew and I didn't see or hear anything trying to engage.

I will look into the BR after lunch. The kids are calling me.

At tp6 pin 5 on j102 I get 0.448 pin 8 is 0.461. TP 5 pin 5 is 0.457 pin 8 is 0.464.

I pulled j107, j116,j907, j130, j127, j126, j122, j902. I turned it on with coin door open. As soon as I shut the coin door I heard a buzz, not sure where it came from, and F112 blew.

Ok, checked out BR1. Red lead to neg got me 427 and 437 readings. Black lead to pos got me 447 on leg counter clockwise and no reading on leg clockwise from the pos lead. I removed the BR from the board and checked again. Same readings. Do we have the culprit? Pic included shows the legs showing no reading.

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Sounds good. I hate waiting on parts. Have to order that one. I'll be back on it next weekend. Stay tuned.

Ok, didn't think of that. I've got a dh, wcs and a ij. One of those should work. I'll swap the board in and give it a shot.

I swapped in the board from BSD. With J104 plugged in and coin door closed fuse does not blow. I get the single pong in booting up. However the DMD has lots of vertical lines and does not try to produce any images. Also the game does not make any sound through the speakers and try to boot into attract mode. I cannot start a game or go into test menu and try to test solenoids. LED D21 lights solid o the CPU board. The other 2 don't come on at all. Is this normal since the board came from BSD? I put the board from WCS in I500, same thing. Board from BSD to WCS and everything booted fine.

Everything is plugged in. Checked and rechecked. I unplugged the 4 ribbon cable from the cpu and the game booted completely and leds flash and light properly. No blowing fuses. The dmd still looks messed up. Could quite possibly be the dmd as I've had to reflow connectors before. I reseated the dmd connectors and it didn't help. I will try one of my other dmds to troubleshoot that. When I plugged the 4 ribbon cable back to the cpu it won't boot. I reseated all 4 connectors and it did not help.

I will check the dmd voltages, carefully go over the pins for the ribbon cables, swap in a good dmd and another ribbon cable from another hame as well as put in the ne br on the original board. Unfortunately this all has to wait til next saturday. I'm out of time this weekend. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Stay tuned.

New BR1 fixed the problem with the blowing fuse. I hang my head and say the DMD problem was I was off a row on one of my ribbon cable connections. Thanks everyone for the support. I love this community for reasons like this. World class guys on here.

Side note; I checked the BR readings on the board I pulled from BSD for kicks. I couldn't get readings off it. The game plays well except once ever other game or so the mist ball just drops out without activating mist mb. The magnet doesnt start across the pf the ball just drops and you get two balls in play. When one drains it doesn't count the ball drain. You lose the ball whenever the second last ball in play drains but when the first one drains it does go ahead and reload the mist ball. Could this possibly be a BR1 issue?