Olympia, WA
Can't you send them back to Stern for repairs? Granted it may cost some money though.
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Quoted from bobukcat:It would go a long way in helping owners and those that do board repair services if Stern provided theory of operation and detailed information about the PIC chips for the node boards. As it is we have a lot of guessing and no thorough understanding of how the PICs are programmed and if the chip is bad on a board could it be swapped and the new one programmed somehow. Contrast that to older games where they WANTED operators to know how to troubleshoot the whole system so they could keep games running / earning and willing to buy more games.
Williams used to hold "repair clinics" sponsored by your local game distributors on how to troubleshoot/repair Williams pinball machines. Route operators were invited to send their technicians to these clinics. Williams understood the importance of fully operational machines being important to the operator's income. I attended a few of those service clinics put on by Bally and Williams.
Bally included that famous Theory and Troubleshooting manual with EVERY solid state pinball machine they made. That was very helpful to me back in the day.
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