(Topic ID: 166896)

RFM LED's staying on?

By hocuslocus

7 years ago



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  • Latest reply 7 years ago by PinMonk
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#1 7 years ago

I have two lights that stay on when I replaced them with led's. all the others turn on or off except for extra ball and capture lock #2. I went ahead and put incandescents back in those. all my bulbs are the more expensive anti-ghosting from either cointaker or pinball life. I tried several different bulbs in the same slot with the same result. any idea why this would be?

This is my first game to put LED's in so I'm not sure if this is a regular thing.
any suggestions? I've watched some youtube videos and no one else seems to have this issue except some other guy who posted more then 3 years ago. He didn't post his solution though

#2 7 years ago

guess on thing I forgot to mention is it doesn't seem like ghosting. the light is fully lit not just a little. In attract mode the lights are supposed to blink 1st, second, third, fourth. The third of course stays on. when it its turn you can see a subtle flash on the bulb but you really have to be looking.

#3 7 years ago

Sounds like a leaking pass transistor on the driver board. I've got LEDs in my RFM (feature lights, no GI as that has a habit of causing a credit dot to appear on Pin2k games) and no issues with that.

#4 7 years ago

Awesome, thank you I'll check that. Sucks looks weird with incandescents there

#5 7 years ago

RFM did this for me, too, when I had one. I think it's part of their light-sensing diagnostic, where the machine will tell you what lights are out. LEDs mess that up and do weird things over time.

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