Hey folks and pin-tech geniuses.
I'll post my early issue here and add pics with my phone after.

Story - I picked up a non-working Scorpion last week, previous owner said blowing solenoid fuse - SB 3.5A. (there was a 4 SB in there)
I figured, ok, lets chase that trouble down as see where it goes. When I was at his place, I flipped the power on, the GI came on and pretty much that was it. I turned it off and took it apart.

I came home, took PF out, started on that cleaning and shop out. BUT today I tossed the head back on, clipped the wire harnesses together- sans playfield and flipped the power on.

The displays, GI in head and looked like it fired up. I went through a few tests, illumination and displays tests to make sure it was good to go.
After a bit, I noticed that dusty "heat odor" and i flipped the power off. I could tell these big resistors were quite hot! Hot like the solder was soft where the leads hit the board. So, that's where I sit now.

Don't quite know where to continue here as I don't see what I should chase first. Having no playfield in? Did it need that? could that be why its hot as balls. I checked the rest of the fuses to make sure they weren't incorrect amperage
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"melt the solder" hot? wow

I don't mind trying to find out what to do. I can do a bit of soldering

HOLY SHIT - found it exactly, low, low down the page on pinwiki, THX

this pin had "some" bulletproofing done by Devron in Saskatoon, too bad he didn't get to this.

So, the pin was on, with only the head on, and no playfield plugged in, and this is how hot these got. FYI. unreal.

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Any other items I should be thinking about with these boards while i'm ordering transitors?

Already has off site battery holder and some upgraded rectifiers I think also

Ok, wowza, I'm pretty decent, but what's the locked up CPU? Blanking?

I just got it fired up enough that I was able do a solenoid test, it hit every coil, sound, all lamps on.

I bought enought TIP125's to do the 8 in the run an replace the hot ass resistors with 10K ones also.

I think my 40 pin connector is newer, it looks newer. This is my first SYS 6 so be easy on me with slang and acronyms on them please

Here’s what I’ve got going on

Here’s my current issue.
Game seems to play great, down to a display issue.

I’ve read the wiki about displays. Damn that’s hard to understand, I read it and my brain hardly comprehends it

Thx, I'll take it out and give it an inspection. At least I have a starting point. Maybe an old weakened solder point. If I have to reheat and reflow i'll tackle that job!

WOW, ordered transistors and resistors from digikey

Already arrived, can do to that board preventative maintenance .

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