Hello all, got an issue with my Whitewater. Flippers work great for awhile (brand new full assembly's from Pinball life.com) but every now and then the left flipper will go dead. By banging on the button a bit will bring it back to life and may play fine for an hour or more. The problem will resurface later on though.

Things I have tried...

1) looking for and reseating loose connections at left flipper button, coil assembly, fliptronics board.

2) replaced the fliptronics board in the backbox with a board from my Fishtales (thought this fixed the issue but problem resurfaced a day later)

Not sure where to go next, maybe swapping out the flipper opto board that sits behind the left button.

I HATE intermittent issues, I wish the flipper would either work or not work at all.

As always, any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

@ the Law - it's an opto board. Looks good to me but maybe I need to get in there and physically clean it out (I havn't done that)

@Bigbossfan - all solder joints look solid. I did them myself when I replaced the flippers with new full setups. I solder alot at work (sheet metal worker by trade but fully understand electronic soldering)

I think I'm gonna swap out the left flipper fliptronics board tomorrow and give it a go. Luckily I have a FT pin in pieces right now to harvest parts from! Thanks for the quick responses!

Okay sounds good, gonna try switching left and right flipper opto boards tomorrow and see what happens. Thank you!

I flipped the opto boards and the problem immediately switched to the right flipper. Took it back out, cleaned it up and adjusted it a bit and it seems to be working good (still keeping an eye on it). Thanks for all the replys!