So this is rather odd. Just recently when I was playing my Joker Poker I noticed that every once in a while 10 points would ring up. At first I dismissed it but then it was happening a lot. I took off all the plastics and rubbers and the checked to see if all the switches were gaped properly. They seemed fine, but the problem was still there. Then I went ahead and pulled up the play field, unscrewed every 10 point switch to gap/clean from underneath. Put it all back together...still happening. Today I booted it up and one of the switches was closed entirely and I just sat there doing nothing as the score rose.

The really strange thing is when I have the play field up, and the game on, and I wiggle the play field it doesn't set off the switch until I lower the play field about a foot from the cabinet.

Anybody got any ideas? Thanks.

I looked...nothing looks strained at all. I guess I could take out the play feild and put an extra bracket to hold the wires. I don't know if that will help.

The pops score 100. I had originally thought that as well. I assume something is stuck when it triggers multiple times but they all look spaced enough. I don't like Phantom points. Lol.

I'll get some compressed air and blow everything out.

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I thought I checked all the backing to make sure they weren't touching. I didn't see any broken solder...now I'm wondering if I should resolder all the switches. I feel so stupid that I can't figure out this simple little thing. Ahhh..

That's a great idea sir. I had thought about that but since I'm not good with schematics I didn't know if that would mess up the matrix or not. Ok. That's what I'll do. Thanks for the idea.

Actually this is gonna sound stupid....which one do I unsolder? I'm sure one is a ground.

That makes sense. Thank you. I'll try that and see what I come up with. Thanks again.

So I disconnected all the switches...in fact I only took one side off of all of them and it was still triggering, so I disconnected the other side. Still triggering. I am super confused. Should I make sure that all the double wires are properly connected? Would that make a difference? Any advice is appreciated.

Ok I can try that. Yeah I can leave the playfield up and when it's powered up I'll go around and wiggle stuff. Thanks.

So...it's odd...and maybe I'm really stupid. I had the playfield up...pushing on wire harnesses with no reaction whatsoever. I unplugged all the connections because I was gonna take the playfield out and put it on the dinning room table to examine a bit closer. That's when I noticed something. There was a spring that must have come off a drop target that was at the bottom of the cab. I don't know where it came from because all the springs seem to be attached to all the drops. Either way...that 10 points isn't auto triggering anymore. That spring might have come from when I put the new drops in and it's been rattling around.

I feel stupid though because I thought I had checked for debris and found nothing. Oh well. Thanks again everyone for your help. I'm kinda glad it wasn't something worse. And I got to practice my soldering I suppose.