I knew the day would come...I've had my JD (w/DW mod) for about 4 months now and it's been running great, no issues at all. When researching this game initially I read alot about opto issues and problems in general but figured it would be a good learning experience if something cropped up. Noticed yesterday that JD was kicking out two balls at the beginning of the start of a ball. There was a ball on the DW ring so I pulled the glass and retrieved it, all seemed well, only one ball issued at the start of each ball. Alas, once I enabled MB and locked the 1st ball it started doing it again. I was going through the switch tests but not sure how to check the DW opto's. Anyone who might have seen this issue before or has a suggestion feel free to chime in. I'm going to look under the playfield and see about maybe cleaning the DW opto's. Thanks for any help.

Wayne

So after some digging, it's a problem w/ the trough switch for ball #5. There is a really ugly hack on the trough board for this LED. I'll reflow it and see if that does the trick. Think for long term i'll try and locate a set of the rottendog trough pcbs I've heard about. If someone knows of a place/pn where i can order a set please let me know.

Thanks.

Thanks for the link HYS. I pulled the board last night and found the resistor for ball #5 had a broken leg, the board has had some issues in the past it looks like. I'll order up a new set of boards, thanks again.