Hello Fellow Kentuckian,

I'm probably the last person you need chiming in on here because I have VERY limited knowledge on pin repair. However, I was barely into your very first post and when I saw Rottondog, my mind said, "Well, there's the problem."

You see, I've have had a problem with their boards before. I bought one for my Phantom of the Opera. When I installed it and turned the pin on, it literally blew up. Blue and red flames came out of one of the components. I had the original board gone over by a competent tech and we put it back in the pin and now it works fine. That pin couldn't 'accept' the Rottondog board.

My second experience was with Twilight Zone. My original board had acid damage from the batteries. I put in the Rottondog and my TZ would come on and 'pop' and it would go completely dead. Nothing would blow . . . no fuses or anything. I could turn it off (quickly) and turn it back on and it would do the same thing. I had that original board repaired and it worked fine. It just wouldn't work with my TZ.

A friend of mine who is VERY electronics savvy and repairs his own pins on location, told me the Rottondog boards can play havoc with the voltage, in that it is sporadic and my two pins needed constant and even voltage. Now, I don't want to disparage Jim's products, for he seems to be a nice fellow, but this friend also said it's a roll of the dice. Different pins react differently when the RD board is put in. It could work fine in one TZ and not in another. Sort of like a heart transplant. The human body will reject one heart but will accept another. (Terrible example, I know! But, hey! There's some electricity involved in both! )

This post will probably be shot all to hell by REAL tech people, but my intuition can get so strong at times, I can't hold back! .

Mike in Bowling Green, Kentucky