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?