Quoted from pinballplusMN:Another concern with this system is lack of fuses.
I had a sw pin a while back that was used in a party. Walked by and could hear some chattering. Opened game and pop bumper coil was almost burned up as its switch was too close. Not sure what wouldve happened if the coil fried. No fuse protection for these games as they age seems like a risk to me.
There is a Star wars on location where I play a monthly tournament.
During a 4 player game the machine went into this weird slow motion style thing and stopped scoring. Lights where blinking very slow.
We rebooted the machine and it didn't turn on.
Turns out it need a node board replacement
1 month later at the next tournament the machine was working again, (new node board) but a massive cluster of insert LEDs where out....The Node board obviously controller these but everything else worked. I told the guys and they said they never realised....
They reseated all the cables and nothing happened.
Today I saw the machine again and the LEDs are still out. I asked what the deal was as they said that apparently the LED boards are fried after the NODE board went. Has anyone ever had that happen? Surely a Node board cannot fry every single LED board it is connected to