Hello everyone! It's my first post. I own a Gottlieb Genie, Bally/Midway Lady Luck, and Al's Garage Band Goes on a World Tour. It's the World Tour I am having trouble with, and need some help. It has the main issue that I think most people have with the PSB burning up the 9 pin and has killed a part of my GI. That's not my current problem though. This evening I received my order of LEDs from Pinball Life and began installing them. At first they worked fine but all of a sudden the 44/47 lamp sockets would not light up anymore with LeD bulbs installed. I can put an incandescent bulb back in and it works but swap it back out for an LED and it doesn't work. It's got me puzzled, why would they work for about an hour, stop suddenly, but the lamp socket is still good and power an incandescent bulb? I verified that LEDs still work by placing them in my Genie. Any thoughts? By the way I am planning on replacing the PSB. Thank you in advance for any thoughts or help with this issue.

Oh I forgot to mention, the 555 LEDs work fine.

Www.pinballlife.com Ablaze 1-LED #44/#47 Bayonet Base Lamp With Concave Lens are the type of bulbs I purchased.

I spoke with the PinBall Life people today and they felt like they should work. The 555 wedge ones do, I'm just at a lose. I suppose I need to find a new PSU and try that.

I'm sorry I don't know the name of type of boards the wedge ones are in, but they are under the playfield in sockets that you have to twist to get out. They illuminate rockandroll, the locations on the glide, and what event is running currently.

As far as the ones I already have I think I will keep them because I have other pins I will put them in, but I do agree now that I've seen them all I would prefer the nonghosting ones.

I will give this a try this evening, thanks man.

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you on this, I came down with something that has pretty well kept me sidelined. I will be out looking at this soon. I will keep you posted.

So... a new problem has popped up on my machine. The DMD is not working. The PSB is sending 110 to the display. I have the same voltage coming into the display board. However going to the DMD itself, I have 68v on the high voltage pin. Is that the expected voltage? If not can someone take a reading and tell me what it is supposed to be?

Thank you sir, currently watching the iron bowl and then I will go check.

With the DMD laying facedown on the machine, reading these left to right.

Vsn -.7
Vrw .3
Key
Gnd 0
Gnd 5 <—- that one seems odd
Vcc 7.0
Vcm 11.9
Vsp. 68.1

I tested all of these as DC, but the two you told me about I tried AC as well to make sure, it still showed 0. I am not sure what types of voltages it uses because it’s my first one.

Will do when I get home. Thank you so mfor h for all your help.

Oh, no, I’m sorry I must have not been clear. I have 110 at the PSB and coming into the board at the bottom right hand of the back box.

Currently the voltages are the same as when I tested them the other day. This time I tested them all on DC using the GND for my black lead like you suggested. Previously I used the ground strap in the attached photos. The other photo is the board you wanted to see.

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Oh and when I used both of the GND pins on the DMD, the 5V on the GND was gone.

Here ya go

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On a setting of 200k I got a reading of 131.9 at the C8 resistor. No setting lower would give me a reading. After retesting the GND, using the black lead on the ground strap, the 5V is not there.

The Vsn pin give 148 Set at 200k when I test it, touching the pin and GND. The other pin does not give a reading no matter the setting.

Yeah the game plays fine, just can’t see the score. I am thinking the same thing. I can track 110 voltage into the Display board at the bottom right of the back box. The 110 doesn’t come out to the DMD.

So could this be caused by a cold solder joint? Or a dry cap?

I can certainly pull the board tomorrow and check with my jewler’s hood for cracked solder joints. However, an old coworker of mine, we worked at a place like Chucky Cheese, said I don’t have the skills currently to solder. I always created the Solderhorn mountain when I attempted.

Also I always have to remind myself when I am doing the testing a quote from Chuck Yeager... “It’s the man, not the machine.”

Is this light on when you your game is running, mine is off. That is located on the display board. The light is on the bottom left. I also reheated the solder on the pins that go to the connectors. I didn’t see any cracks but there were holes. It didn’t help, the voltages stayed the same.

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Sounds good. Yeah my light is not blinking on the display board

Man I’m sorry, I had to go out of town on an emergency. I am getting on this today.

I am not getting that voltage from the male header pins.

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I just had a wild idea. Is there anything I can buy that will produce these voltages?

Do you think the board can be repaired?

Do you know of someone or a company that can repair the board?