..that moment when you finish a couple hours of testing stuff on a pinball machine, trying to figure out why it has no playfield lighting, only to realize that LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 50+ light bulbs on the playfield is just burned out.
That's my life right now.
I feel like a dingus for not checking that earlier; I've actually had a game with every controlled lamp out before.Relieved it's not some inexplicable phantom issue that'll take months to track down, though.
Time to find my box of bulbs pulled from LED'd games, or order a ton of 555s, I suppose.
Quoted from Collin:50+ light bulbs on the playfield is just burned out.
Helped a guy out with an EM, then he asks about the 5 lights still working in the backbox. Quick peek behind the backglass and had to tell him that those other 20 or so bulbs were all toast.
It does happen.
Quoted from Collin:I've seen all controlled lamps out before, but never controlled and GI all out. Just blows my mind that someone presumably played it with no lamps last
Sometimes pins are woefully neglected by coin ops. I saw an Elvis last summer with no controlled lamps, partial GI, and the hound dog switch that was making contact constantly, so the dog howl kept going off every 3 seconds. Then, sometimes a home owner will get a busted pin like that and think that is how it is supposed to work, since they haven't seen otherwise.
Years ago, I knew a guy who told me he kept a bucket of burnt out bulbs, and if he sold a game to someone who he felt jacked him around, he'd ship the game with every last bulb in the entire game replaced with a burnt one, in order to drive the guy crazy in troubleshooting and then tick him off royal once he realized what has happened. Rotten.
Quoted from Collin:..that moment when you finish a couple hours of testing stuff on a pinball machine, trying to figure out why it has no playfield lighting, only to realize that LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 50+ light bulbs on the playfield is just burned out.
That's my life right now.
Been there, done that.
Quoted from I_P_D_B:Years ago, I knew a guy who told me he kept a bucket of burnt out bulbs, and if he sold a game to someone who he felt jacked him around, he'd ship the game with every last bulb in the entire game replaced with a burnt one, in order to drive the guy crazy in troubleshooting and then tick him off royal once he realized what has happened. Rotten.
That's a lot of work to piss someone off.
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