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Modern stern grounding

By pinballkyle

7 years ago



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#1 7 years ago

So I moved around some games yesterday, and when I setup my LOTR, I forgot to latch down the head. Yesterday I fried 2 transistors in only an hour of play, one was the autolaunch, the other was the lower pop bumper.

I was kind of surprised, so I suspected a grounding issue. Sure enough, if you don't latch the head down with the alan wrench, the entire backbox and all boards will NOT be grounded. Yikes!

I assume this is why I had 2 failed transistors yesterday? Does this sound like a reasonable assumption?

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