Hello. I am a first time owner of a pinball machine and have been struggling to learn everything I can. The only issue that I am currently having on the machine is the backboard gi is not working. The flashers work though. I found from another post I need to check j120 and once I located it I see that it is plugged into a black port while all the others in the machine are white and there is either a burn or a solder directly above it. I’m not sure if things to check or how to check it. Any help is greatly appreciated and please explain in simple terms because I do not know a ton about the mechanical side of these. Thank you

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@LTB that was it! Holy cow! Such an easy thing that I have made so hard haha. Thank you so much! On a separate note while I was looking around back here I do not see a battery pack. My game saves everything fine and keeps high scores. If anybody has info on what is going on here I would really appreciate it. Sorry I’m a newbie.

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LTG thanks again! I wanted to make sure they weren’t hiding and rotting away!

I take it back... after having the machine on for about an hour or two and not playing it the fuse burned out again. Not really sure where to go from here.

Alrighty. So finally got the correct fuses and replaced the and wanted to make sure all of my gi was working first. Ran a test and it looks like only half of the lights are working. All of the lights that are connected to the solid yellow wire and the white and yellow striped wire are not working. After turning the game off I wanted to make sure that the fuses were placed back in properly and the fuse for f109 was extremely hot after about 2 min of the machine being on. Is this any clue to what could be going on? I have not done what LTG said to do yet. I just turned it on to make sure they were working. Thanks again!

So over the past two days I have done what LTG suggested testing each bulb and socket and no hot fuses. So then I started putting one light bulb in at a time and waiting a little and after putting 5-6 light bulbs in on the same string of wires we got heat from the fuses. I did check how much power is going into the sockets and was getting readings of 6.9 or 7.5 on the orange and white lines. On the yellow lines I was getting 6.4 or 6.3. I do not if that is any clue where to go from here. I have made sure the fuses are new, they are getting power, the wires are getting power, the sockets seem fine(unless those are high readings), and the light bulbs seem good. It may not be connected but could anybody tell me more about the solder job that was done on the board? I’m not sure what that is there to do. The picture is in the first post and thank you all again.

Pahuffman LTG wellll I switched them and the same two fuses got hot so something on the board. Is this something where I can replace small parts on the board or just get a new board? I also had read in one of the forums that somebody had wired all the wires to J121 and that you just have to disconnect them if you take backboard off the machine. Is this a safe option? I feel like that puts way more strain on those fuses but I’m still learning about all this.