Need a little help on a Sonic Mars Trek, but suspect this applies to most EM games. The lites in the head that show what player is up (player 1 - 4) and also the Ball In Play lites (1 - 5) are not coming up or VERY VERY dim at times. It looks like all of these sockets have a common wire running across all of them with separate individual wires to each as well. I notice that the lamp socket at the Player 1 lite is likely bad, it seems busted and very loose. As I recall this can cause a short that could affect other lamp sockets on the same circuit? What's weird is I can do a continuity test and get a beep on either side of all these sockets to the other side of any other socket. That seems odd to me. May not be explaining it well or using the correct terms either. I have asked similar continuity questions before and didn't full understand the responses. Kinda like what I am seeing is normal, but not sure how. Maybe the continuity could be there, but no "power" is going to the individual socket?
Guess the prime question is, could that one bad socket be causing all of the other sockets issues? And/Or, why would more than one socket have the same issue, especially if they are not general illumination? Lastly, trying to find these on the schematic, is there a relay or "something" that should be controlling all of these at a central point?
Thanks