Hey all,

I have all new bulbs in the back box of my Big Hurt machine... As you can see, some of them don't light (ignore the larger flashers at the top, they work fine, they were just off at the moment).

The workouts ones are pulling abkut 5.8V AC.... The random ones that are not lighting do NOT show any voltage. I tested the body of the socket against the center pin to test all these voltages.

This is strange to me since they are all in line with each other, pulling voltage from the same source. So, I take it that 'dirty' sockets aren't the issue here, and it has something to do with contact points....

Is this a case where the solder joints that connect the power wires to these specific sockets is bad, since the power, obviously, flows past the socket and feeds the others properly?

Always learning,

Matt!

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Thanks... I'll check that out. All the joints look factory, but that didn't mean much after 30 years, I suppose!

OK... There was continuity, but I'll check around the solder site.

Thanks guys.... I'll try all this tonight!

**fixed**

OK, so..... I examined the solder blobs on the bad sockets a bit more closely. It turns out that they were free floating - touching enough to show continuity, but not close enough, apparently, to flow the 6V through....

As a temporary fix, I unscrewed the bracket a little, slide the solder blob beneath, and screwed back down so that the screw bit into the solder. I attached a pic.

This worked perfectly for every socket!

Thanks again!!!

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