I’m stumped. I’m having a problem with the three lights under the spinning lamp on my TOTAN. While troubleshooting some other non-functioning lights (which I fixed) I realized only one of three lights under my lamp was working.

The photo below shows where the three lights are located. #3 is concealed, but you can see one of its two wires. (Actually, until I started investigating I never even knew this #3 socket existed. This light has probably been burned out for as long as I owned the machine.)

When I originally was looking at this, #1 and #2 had 6.3 volt LED flashers in them, and #3 had a burned out incandescent bulb. Only #2 was working. So I moved #2 to the #1 socket and couldn’t get it to light. At this point I’m thinking I must have damaged the prongs removing #2 because it never worked again – even in its original socket.

I had a box of 555 Eiko incandescent bulbs (again, 6.3 volts) so I next loaded up all the sockets with them. Only the bulb in socket #1 worked. Socket #2, which had been fine for years until I simply removed the original flasher, wasn’t working nor was socket #3.

To add to the mystery, my new bulb in socket #1 burned out after a single game. I tried another new bulb and the same thing happened – burned out after a single game.

So this is where I’m at now...

First, I was rather surprised how much nicer the incandescent looked (when it worked!) as there seemed to be a nice warm glow under the lamp – almost like fire. I think I would prefer to use incandescents for all three sockets, but obviously I can’t if they burn out after one game. I’m wondering if these need to be 12 volt instead?

Second, what on earth happened to socket #2? Switching out a light broke it?? (And, in turn, that broke #3 as well??) Part of me is confused by the fact if you look at that photo, #2 has a completely different set of wires than #1, while #3’s wires are a continuation off #2 (using a brown and white wire scheme). Since all three lights are supposed to flash on in unison, is #2 and #3 supposed to operate off a different circuit? Instead – shouldn’t my blue and red wire connected to #1 continue on to #2 and #3?

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Thanks LTG. I was suspecting I needed a 12 volt bulb. Should #2 & #3 run off different wiring from #1? Seems odd I can't get anything to light up in 2 & 3 now, but I can certainly buy the proper bulbs and try again.

Yeah, in the flasher test only #1 works. Part of my confusion is the manual shows these to be 24-8768 bulbs - but those are the 555 6.3 volts, right?

Well the manual does state the 24-8768 bulbs are the 555s so none of this is making sense. Did a previous owner completely rewire this lighting? Curious if other TOTAN owners have these lights wired the same way and what bulbs they use.

Well the other lights match up in the test. It's just the spinning lamp flashers I'm confused about. But again, sockets 2 and 3 run off different wires and don't work anymore for some reason, so those don't light up in the test (even though #2 worked for years with a 6 volt LED flasher until I took it out; no idea now if it would have lit up correctly under the diagnostic test). Only #1 works now - but only for a few minutes until a fresh bulb dies (even though it's the correct bulb according to the manual).

Yeah I see that now. I was confusing those with the "Lamp" bulbs on page 2-37 which is for something completely different. Alright - well I'm off to get the right bulbs and then see what happens next. Thank you.