I never became too old for a split birthday... and to add insult to injury, my brother was always the same age as me for 1 week per year.

How do you accommodate the star rollovers with the hard top?

My Firepower started acting weird mid-game yesterday, symptoms make me believe it should be an easy fix but I don’t know where to start looking. I pulled the glass off and found three things that aren’t working correctly.

The lane change stopped working for the “fire” lanes.
The left saucer isn’t kicking out the ball
The star rollover into the left saucer isn’t registering

Also, the center target above the pops isn’t registering but I think that’s just an adjustment problem.

Does anyone know if these issues are related to a single board problem? Since all three happened simultaneously, leads me to believe they are related.

Any help would be appreciated

By “4” targets do mean ‘fire’ targets?

The white green switch matrix makes sense but some of the items on that row are working. Sorry for the newbie questions but, does the switch matrix translate to the boards in some way so connections and circuits can be identified? I tried reseating all my connectors but that had no effect. I tried tracing the wiring and cannot find a broken connection. Of the items on that row of the switch matrix the “4” and the lower right stand up work but the lane change, left saucer rollover, saucer switch and the lane changes don’t work.

With them all stopping together it would make sense to me that the issue is connected in some way. Any suggestions for next steps? I’m going to go and chase wiring again to double check

Thanks for the direction so far, it has created some good learning.

Well, I cannot find a loose wire, I’m stuck at this point, I guess it’s time for some professional help. Bummer, it seems like I should have been able to figure it out.

I’ll try that...

I think I figured it out, I have a broken connection between the star rollover and the “4” target. Can I just run a jumper or should I pull that wire out of the bundle? I’m thinking a jumper between the two should do it. I have continuity both sides of that, (from the four to the board and from the star rollover to the center target). The one thing I don’t see how to check is the lane change with the right flipper. Hopefully fixing the broken connection will make that work. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot that part of the circuit?

Fixed! Thanks for the help, especially Schwaggs, it was a wire the wasn’t disconnected but must have been broken somewhere and not visible. A lot of the wiring take some big direction changes, after 40 years of vibrating around I’m surprised I don’t have more jumpered wiring under the play field. Now back to trying to roll over the score...

I got this error code when I last turned on my game

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Also got 1497

I replaced the 5101 and get the same error...

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Should I try to replace the socket?

My firepower just started having a sound problem, the background sound doesn’t come on and it keeps making the tilt sound without a tilt, just tilt sound after tilt sound. It seems to be playing correctly otherwise. Any ideas on where to start?

Thanks for all the suggestions, I’ll dig in this weekend