I brought home a Stern Hot Hand tonight and after a couple plays the sound cut out completely. I reseated everything from the sound board, checked for loose connectors/wires throughout, and booted up again.

Now I get sporadic noises at start up then a constant hum from the speaker. No other sound with gameplay.

First, while poking around, I noticed the connector on the bottom of the rectifier board was getting very hot. I pulled it to take a look and it's definitely burning up. I'll obviously need to rebuild this connector, but I'll need to figure out was causing it to begin with. I also can't seem to find any sort of wiring diagram to figure out which pins are causing this.

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I also noticed a wire disconnected on one end that leads to the speaker plate with the volume control. Any ideas where this should go?

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I'm pretty new to this so thanks for any help. It wasn't having any issue before we moved it.

I think I messed up putting the ribbons back on when I originally reseated them. I got it back to no sound at all now, and wiggling them while hitting switches doesn't produce any sound. Here's how it is set up.

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Well I'm special. I reseated the SB side of the connectors and got my sound back. I either missed a pin the first time or didn't get it seated right.

At least in the process I found some other things I need to look at. Obviously the connector on the rectifier burning up.

Also, all of the backbox lights that indicate player count are out. This would be the 4 lights on the bottom left, each light behind the suits of the players, and a couple other lights along the bottom right. I assume it's a power issue since the bulbs are good.

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