Get your old meter out and hook it to a flasher socket and see if it jumps when the flasher should flash.

If so you have power and looking at bad socket or bad bulb.

If not you lost power then go back the other way until you figure where power stops. Then fix that.

LTG

I was picturing a dinosaur in a trench coat running around hassling old ladies.

Call National Geographic and Goodwill. NG will capture that sucker and GW will clothe it.

LTG

Thank you for two things:

1. Reporting back and letting us know the problem so others that may have the same problem down the road will have an idea what the problem source could be.

2. Proving that every once in a blue moon, diodes do go bad. Yours is the first I think I've ever heard of it happening.

I had the same issue on a Baywatch machine, one flasher section was out. Though I noticed they would light ever so slightly, barely noticeable at all.

I ended up determining that the blk-org (not working) section somehow had continuity to the blk-gry section(working) at the PPB J9 connector (this connector runs to the backbox lights (through another connector) and the playfield. I isolated the issue to 1 of the 2 playfield flasher LEDs. I ended up determining that one of the Flasher LEDs had an internal short between it's 2 legs, fixed that and now they work and there is no continuity to the blk-gry section.

I'm not entirely sure why my issue manifested in continuity between the two sections, but I'm guessing that the internal short of the blk-org flasher provided continuity to the nearby blk-gry line through the power wiring (orange wire).

I found this thread while looking for some leads on solving my issue so I figured I'd add my experience to it as well.

So if you're having flasher issues, make sure the bulbs or LEDs aren't internally shorted.