Quoted from DakotaMike:I will next time I'm back at the location. I know that you need to pull them to be 100 percent sure, but never fully understood why. Since the fuse tested good, and didn't visually look blown to me, I wanted to save stress on the fuse holders.
Appreciate the advice. I'll be following those steps when I go back.
Yeah, our location has cameras and when I went back and reviewed the footage I wanted to cry. We have plenty of new Sterns and JJPs that would probably have been okay with that abuse. But they picked our oldest game to do that to. Probably because it was the cheapest game at 50 cents-a-play.
The kids are not the issue here. Pressing flipper buttons is a core function that you literally can do all day long if everything is working. It is likely the 40 year old components, connectors and header pins on the power board and/or end-of-stroke switches on the flippers. Blown fuses are a symptom of other issues.
Middletown, OH
