Quoted from timlah79:

It's all of a sudden been issue after issue a few months out of warranty. I posted about my helicopter opto issue 2 days ago that I thought was my fault for making adjustments to the helicopter. However, what happened today is in a completely opposite end of the playfield. I have not been able to find an answer anywhere, I hope someone here can help.
I'll try to explain as best as possible:
Firing up the game today resulted in me noticing that my TOP GI-LEFT lights weren't working as expected. I have the Mezel Tower Mod and the T-Rex Gate Mod (that has LEDs in this area) - lights on both were out. Going into DIAG revealed alerts about CHECK NODE BOARD 9 OVERCURRENT PROTECTION. Digging in closer OVERCURRENT PROTECTION - UPPER PLAYFIELD - DRIVE: NONE LIGHT: TOP GI-LEFT. Doing OVERCURRENT TEST on Node 9 flashes all of the GI lights except for those in question and maybe another one? (noted as 154 in the manual). I also got an error along the way about TROUGH MALFUNCTION and I see the Raptor Cage / Gate try to initialize but stop halfway through.
I've checked all connections and nothing looks wrong. I also replaced the Tower Mod LED that wires into the Tower Lights. For about 5 min everything lit back up and there were no alerts. But within my first gameplay ball everything went out again, rinse and repeat with that Node 9 GI overcurrent alert and Trough malfunction messages . I then disconnected the two LED mods. No change. Some screenshots below.
I don't understand what is causing all of this all of a sudden. The mods have been in the machine forever without issue. I have no other mods that leverage the machines power and again eliminating them didn't change anything. The little monitor mod in the pics is powered outside of the machine BTW.
Any advice on what else to check? From what I've read the DRIVE value in diagnostics tells you where the problem is but in my case it's DRIVE: NONE
Should I buy and install a new node board?
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Added today: I posted a revised description of the issue here per recommendation: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/spike-2-node-9-overcurrent-protection-gi-failure-stern-jple

Quoted from J-Freeze:

My guess is that you have a short somewhere, either a bulb/socket or a wire.
From what I understand the overcurrent protection acts as a fuse.

Quoted from Jamwin:

Apologize in advance if this topic is in this thread but 131 pages of stuff is hard to search through. I did a word search and couldn't find anything. My T-Rex is randomly vibrating for no reason. Sometimes, when I start a game, she's just vibrating and stuck in one position. Then if I hit the ramp and engage her, it will stop vibrating and follow the gameplay. And, sometimes, during the game, will start to vibrate and then engage in the gameplay. One time, my wife was playing and she was unaware of this and once the game ended, she walked away and T-Rex continued vibrating even after the game was over. Anyone see this issue or know if it's in any JP forum threads? Thanks in advance.

Quoted from Faust:

I'm happy to have joined the club; I received my LE today.
Let's see how it plays...

Quoted from MrMikeman:

Why would you get a shaker for an LE. Shakers are pre-installed in LEs.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

I was playing my Premium tonight and right in the middle of a game, the game suddenly stopped and the lcd screen gave me a message about closing the coin door or pulling the interlock bar switch (orl something to rhat effect). I had no idea what happened so I opened the coin door (which was closed) and the game completely went off (including the screen).
Now the game will not even power up. After a few seconds, I here a fan whirring type of noise coming out of the silver box in the lower right corner of the backbox (see picture).
I have never had something like this happen with any machine I've ever owned and this was NIB in June. Anyone have an idea of what happened and the problem is? It is if the power supply is gone but I have no idea why. Not happy right now as this game isn't even a year old.
UPDATE: Now no whirring sound either. Zero power to the entire pin. Really concerned something really bad could have happened but have no idea why. No power surge or anything.
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Quoted from JP76:

Sorry to hear, that sucks. Good new is it’s covered under warranty. I would leave the game off and call or email Stern tomorrow. The whirring sound is a fan in the power supply. The fan doesn’t run all the time. It only runs when the power supply reaches a certain temperature. My guess is the power supply is fine and one of the boards is bad but Stern can give you some troubleshooting steps to try.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

I hope you're right and that the warranty covers it. I'm at about the 7 month mark and this is my first NIB.
I was hoping it was a power supply issue and that would just need to be replaced. It was really strange. Have never experienced anything like it with any other pin and it is deader than a door nail now .

Quoted from Utesichiban:

I was playing my Premium tonight and right in the middle of a game, the game suddenly stopped and the lcd screen gave me a message about closing the coin door or pulling the interlock bar switch (or something to that effect). I had no idea what happened so I opened the coin door (which was closed) and the game completely went off (including the screen).
Now the game will not even power up. After a few seconds, I here a fan whirring type of noise coming out of the silver box in the lower right corner of the backbox (see picture).
I have never had something like this happen with any machine I've ever owned and this was NIB in June. Anyone have an idea of what happened and the problem is? It is if the power supply is gone but I have no idea why.
UPDATE: Now no whirring sound either. Zero power to the entire pin. Really concerned something bad could have happened but have no idea why. No power surge or anything.
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Quoted from foxtrot603:

Similar to my issue this morning, on a 3 day old NIB Pro...I was playing and the entire machine went dark. Hope it’s a quick fix for both of us.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

Wow, sorry to hear that. I hadn't read anything about an issue like this happening. I am going to call my distributor and Stern tomorrow. I've just never had an issue like this happen but then again, this is my first spike II, LCD pin.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

Wow, sorry to hear that. I hadn't read anything about an issue like this happening. I am going to call my distributor and Stern tomorrow. I've just never had an issue like this happen but then again, this is my first spike II, LCD pin.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

I hope you're right and that the warranty covers it. I'm at about the 7 month mark and this is my first NIB.
I was hoping it was a power supply issue and that would just need to be replaced. It was really strange. Have never experienced anything like it with any other pin and it is deader than a door nail now .

Quoted from snaroff:

Technically, you are out of the 60 day PCB warranty (https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/sterns-warranty-is-terrible), but hopefully Stern will still take care of you.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

Do you think it is the PCB?
I was planning on buying a Elvira House of Horrors for the next Match/April run

Quoted from JP76:

Wow. Two of you with dead machines. Let us know when you figure out the problem.

Quoted from foxtrot603:

Figured out my problem...bad wall outlet! Had to get a volt meter and went through the SPIKE II game power troubleshooting flow chart. Had a low reading on last step. Moved the power cable to a different outlet...and power issue fixed!
24 hours without pinball...how ever did I keep my sanity!
PS: Sorry for invading the Premium/LE owner's group. I spend hours looking for similar problems and this was the closest I found.

Quoted from foxtrot603:

Figured out my problem...bad wall outlet! Had to get a volt meter and went through the SPIKE II game power troubleshooting flow chart. Had a low reading on last step. Moved the power cable to a different outlet...and power issue fixed!
24 hours without pinball...how ever did I keep my sanity!
PS: Sorry for invading the Premium/LE owner's group. I spend hours looking for similar problems and this was the closest I found.

Quoted from ProjektPat:

So it seems like this game just doesn't give you the replay sometimes? Is that a thing? I just passed by 2 replay scores and didn't get an extra ball at all.

Quoted from yzfguy:

You have to go into settings and select extra ball as the reward.

Quoted from ProjektPat:

Nor does it even give any kind of "Replay" cut scene or anything.

Quoted from brickbuilder14:

Good afternoon, Hoping you guys can help. My machine has been working perfectly since I got it. Unfortunately yesterday the T Rex decided to stop releasing the balls after he captures them. So for example when I start the first Multi Ball he simply never releases the ball and then T rex multi ball starts and once I lose the new ball the machine will attempt to "locate" the balls which will open its mouth and the ball will drop. I also noticed that in other situations the head will come down and have its mouth open when its not supposed to... after it catches the ball in that situation it immediately releases it.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Quoted from beaplayer:

I have had the exact same thing on my premium. Have you heard of any fix yet? I have not (or I would tell you what I found). Thanks.

Quoted from Utesichiban:

I hope you're right and that the warranty covers it. I'm at about the 7 month mark and this is my first NIB.
I was hoping it was a power supply issue and that would just need to be replaced. It was really strange. Have never experienced anything like it with any other pin and it is deader than a door nail now .

Quoted from JP76:

Just curious, did you talk to Stern or figure out the issue yet?

Quoted from wolfievtec:

Has anyone installed the "fence upgrade" and had an issue with the TREX hitting the left fence? I tried adjusting the left / right bias in settings and it helps but when TREX goes crazy at the beginning it always hits the left fence pretty hard. I don't think it's really hurting anything but I don't want to scratch up the TREX head, lol. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Quoted from wolfievtec:

Has anyone installed the "fence upgrade" and had an issue with the TREX hitting the left fence? I tried adjusting the left / right bias in settings and it helps but when TREX goes crazy at the beginning it always hits the left fence pretty hard. I don't think it's really hurting anything but I don't want to scratch up the TREX head, lol. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Quoted from wolfievtec:

Has anyone installed the "fence upgrade" and had an issue with the TREX hitting the left fence? I tried adjusting the left / right bias in settings and it helps but when TREX goes crazy at the beginning it always hits the left fence pretty hard. I don't think it's really hurting anything but I don't want to scratch up the TREX head, lol. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Quoted from woody76:

can someone please point me to the custom callouts audio/video file that everyone is raving about? I found some post talking about it but no download link.

Quoted from Manny65:

Due to the more recent licensing restrictions there are no public download links
Here is the thread https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-jurassic-park-2-custom-code-project - send timlah79 a PM and he'll share a private link

Quoted from Flynnyfalcon:

Regarding common adjustments people are making from factory, are they listed anywhere?
Key Posts in both the LE and Pro JP Club threads don't show anything other than the shooter adjustment. From memory some have removed a screw in the Tower ramp to good effect. Are there others?
I'm keen to make mine flip as well as possible as I still have some nagging issues. i.e. The right orbit shot will always (99%) hit the truck captive ball upon exit, a bricked "S" shot will not bounce to the left flipper/slingshot, typically it's SDTM, the Tower shot bricks quite a lot, balls will often drain through the gate at the pops... and yep the ball shooter makes it up maybe 80/20.

Quoted from per3per3:

Cliffy makes a carbon fiber flap that replaces the metal entrance ramp for both 180 ramps that gets rid of the screw problem all together. The screw down metal entrance flaps are removed and now tbe ball goes up both super smoothly

Quoted from Flynnyfalcon:

So you've added these mods and can attest to the improvements?

Quoted from per3per3:

Cliffy makes a carbon fiber flap that replaces the metal entrance ramp for both 180 ramps that gets rid of the screw problem all together. The screw down metal entrance flaps are removed and now tbe ball goes up both super smoothly

Quoted from Flynnyfalcon:

So you've added these mods and can attest to the improvements?

Quoted from per3per3:

Absolutely. They use 3M adhesive to stick to the playfield which is pre-applied to the cliffys. They work great, are the same shape as the existing metal protectors, and install quite easily. I was able to install the tower ramp one without removing anything, and for the helipad ramp I just unscrewed one thing to give me better access. All in all, probably took 20 mins total and the tower ramp especially shoots much more smoothly with no more rejects. The theory that about the ball hitting the left screw holding the tower ramp metal entrance flap which caused the ball to slow down enough for ramp rejects was definitely true.
Highly recommend for anyone having this issue.