Did the shaker come with a capacitor with a harness to plug into the node board?

I think you need to install it. You said you bought the same shaker and have them installed in your other spike 2 games. Do those have the capacitor harness installed? If they don’t, I’d put them on.

My aiq le came from the factory with the capacitor harness installed and my Elvira premium shaker came with the harness and I installed it.

If you unplug the shaker, the error should go away, but it’s possible you may have already done damage. Try it and see, it won’t hurt any more.

This happened to me on a Led Zep Premium. I contacted Stern and they sent me a new cabinet node board (under left flipper) I installed it and my errors went away and shaker was finally working.

Unfortunately, I believe the node board 1 under the left flipper if fried. I plugged in a wrong shaker and it worked in test mode, then fried within 10-15 seconds starting a game. If you fried it, you would have probably smelled burnt rubber- board. Pinball life sells new node 1 boards for about 175 bucks. If you look at the board closely, you probably can see the fried component.

My iron maiden does the same thing, also says through error but everything works. Idk

I was getting same message and replaced the cab node board.

Here's some info on spike & shaker motors:

https://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Stern_SPIKE%E2%84%A2_System_Repair#Shaker_Motor_Problems

Best of luck with that....

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I’ve never seen Stern point to their warranty and turn someone away. Ever. So get in touch with your distributor

Exact same thing happened to me on a brand new Pin. Purchased an "authorized" Stern Shaker motor from Pinball Life. Paid the extra $20. Installed it properly (only one way to do it) and yep it fried the node 1 and node 8 boards. Stern never responded to my emails and messages and Pinball Life washed their hands of it insisting they sent the correct motor. They did refund my purchase. Luckily the distro (Operation Pinball) stepped up and drop shipped me the two boards from Stern. Ordered another shaker from a different company and everything worked fine. The new shaker had a different part # than the one I was originally sent. So.....contact your distributor if Stern ignores you.

My JP failed to register the overcurrent error and fried a mosfet on the power distro board for the coin door switch section of the board .
I put an old power distro board (without the door section) in and the shaker doesn't stop as soon as the games on, I was thinking it was an issue with
Q15 or U10 on the cabinet node. The shaker is factory installed with no mods in the game. but yeah my money is on the cabinet node (node 1).

I was turned away recently on a spike 2 cpu for another game with another issue. The game was 2 years old though, so all good. I think they are making the parts cheaper on their site and backing off this warranty stuff. Problem is they are all sold out of stuff. Crazy thing is I just had this same exact issue on another game the week prior with a spike 2 cpu. Before that I hadn't had an issue since ghostbusters. When it rains....

There is still an issue with what caused the board to fail. Was it the shaker or an internal issue with the board? I’d install the capacitor harness if you have it. If you don’t, get one.

I had the over current error on a spike system. I replaced my coin door and I found 2 incandescent bulbs in the coin returns. Removed them and no more error. Must be the old school lamps were pulling too much current. All my other Spike sterns have leds in the door
. No issues.

Never use incandescent bulbs with the spike system, they draw too much current and will trigger overcurrent protection.

@RappanzZ28 did you ever have any more issues after replacing the node board? Did you end using the same shaker that you originally purchased?

I have a JP Premium (about 2.5 years old). I had a Stern shaker installed on it for over 2 years (with the capacitor)...no issues. I moved the shaker over to my Godzilla Premium (while I waited for a new shaker from cointaker). Worked fine. New shaker from Cointaker arrived and I installed it on JP. It seemed to work (but not like the original one). Next day, received same 2 errors as your original post (i.e. Overcurrent protection on Node 1 and Trough error). No smell or obvious failure on node 1 board. Game seems to play fine but shaker doesn't work. I moved the new shaker over to Godzilla and seems to work fine.