Hello, I have been working on a Seawitch project for a month or so. After getting the game 100% working, I did the playfield swap and now I am having two issues:
-The 1a fuse on the playfield between the flippers blows as soon as the coil test triggers the first coil (the top pop bumper).
-No feature lights lighting up and 10a rectifier board fuse blowing. I replaced all the GI with LED's and the feature inserts with the led PCB's that Pinball Life carries (similar to Yopsicles...https://www.pinballlife.com/classic-bally-stern-insert-led-pcb.html). Then once the game was reconnected, the 10a feature fuse on the rectifier board would blow as soon as the game boots up. I checked the connectors on the LDA-100 board and noticed that if I disconnected J2 the fuse would not blow, but there were still no lights on. On closer inspection, the 7th pin from the bottom on J2 had some kind of green goop on it, so I pulled that pin, cleaned it with alcohol spray and re-seated it. Now with all connectors connected the fuse isn't blowing but I am still not getting any feature lights EXCEPT for the white arrow just after the spinner. Doing the feature light self test nothing flashes or turns on (except for the white arrow which just stays lit).
Notes:
-I did not change any wiring, I simply swapped the old light sockets for the new PCB's.
-I assumed I had a short somewhere, so I went through looking for anything touching or mis-wired but I can't find anything. I re-flowed a few solder joints that looked a bit suspicious, but testing with continuity everything is grounding fine over the common. I know the rectifier board is solid as it was tested and working for weeks before the playfield swap (and it's a new rectifier board, everything was re-soldered and re-pinned). The LDA-100 board in the backbox looks solid as well.
-As mentioned, the game was 100% working before the pf swap, so it's either on the pf or something with the connectors.
-The coils do feel a little bit crusty, but while they are getting somewhat high resistance readings none are off the charts. I wouldn't rule out coils being a problem though. I was having issues with the coils when I got the game but that ended up being a bad rectifier board.
Happy to test anything out and try anything! I'm fresh out of ideas and places to look.