My Big Hurt has been working fine for the longest time. Yesterday I turned it on and I'm hearing a constant sound coming from the speakers. It's like static or something along those lines. I'll try to post a video (audio) of the issue. Not sure where to start looking.

Thanks

#2 5 years ago

INK

Inkochnito

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Piershil

12y 91,650 3,169 12

Start with replacing the capacitors....

#3 5 years ago

BEN

Benhurr

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Carquefou

7y 30,550 226 1

1st: Unplug and clean any sound board connector when pinball off and wait until it is dry if you used a spray cleaner...sometimes I turn the black RCA on my pinball when i got sound troubles and works fine after that.
2nd check ground wires...if you got sound with noise that probably came from a bad ground connection a
But if you got noise without original pinball sound on the backgrounds you might change capa on the auxiliary power supply board( called A5 at the top centre in the backbox)

#4 5 years ago

DAD

rmillman

Pinside member

Branchburg, NJ

9y 31,900 165 6

I went to the gameroom and turned the machine on yesterday, no problems with the sound. Turned the machine off / on (10 minutes later) and the sound came back. I removed the translate and found some loose connectors in the back board, turned it back on and the sound was fine. I'll keep everyone posted if anything changes.

Thanks for the suggestions.

#5 5 years ago

BEN

Benhurr

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Carquefou

7y 30,550 226 1

Could you take a picture?
The connector is probably these used for plug a printer (on the right in the back box)

Also clean connectors, abrade pin on sound board on ribbon cable too

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