F6 on the PS board was blowing upon power up. I simply traced that back through to the PPB and found it was the 32V supply to some flashers as well as 4 coils (drops, outhole, trough & knocker)....once I realized the PS and PPB were good and the problem was coming from the PF or cabinet - I merely removed each wire from J2 on the PPB to see which was causing the problem - the odd thing here is when RD bought the pin it did NOT have a knocker BUT in the cabinet the two coil wires were crimp wire-nutted together (which didn't make sense to me) but it was that way from day 1 and the game had played for months & months prior...I saw this hack from the 1st second we started - but thought well it's always been this way - shouldn't be the problem, but sure enough I cut the wire nut off and low and behold no more fuses blowing, solenoids were firing again (except the knocker, which as already mentioned, not there) and a bank of 4 flashers that RD indicated had never worked - were working again (kind of, but that was a CPU-fried MOSFET problem I still have to get to)...in the end a few hours of schematics review and one swift movement of my dikes and all was good again.

Don't overlook Peter's gift here...those tech charts are f'n brilliant to have...great job Peter - I hadn't seen these before!