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The transistors on the node boards are through hole, just like every other transistor so not sure why they are hard to repair.
I have had 2 flipper coil transistors desolder them selves from node boards and the coil also shorted. Not sure which happened first. New transistor and coil fixed the issue. Stern replaced both quickly.
I have a lot of Spike games out and some with 50k+ games and no node board failures, yet. I did have a CPU on one of my GOT fail and was replaced quickly by Stern.
I will say $200+ a piece on these node boards is total bullshit. They should be like 50 bucks for how small they are.
Quoted from Mbecker:So few people are ordering from Marco?? My brother got nose 8 from stern then fried it again (his fault technically, didn't fix frozen flipper coil and blew the transistor again) so he ordered from Marco. It's been months and months of waiting -- Marco keeps saying it's back ordered ???!
Replace the failed transistor. Do not need to order a new node board.
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