The way Fast Draw counts down the bonus when there's no multiplier always bugged me. It decrements so fast that the #44s barely have a chance to start lighting up, goes by in a dim blur. So today I put warm no-ghosting LEDs in that strip and added a 22 ohm resistor between the strip and its ground wire to trim their brightness down to the level of the 44s in the other inserts. Looks much better. I'm not a huge fan of swapping incandescent for LEDs espec. an EM but will use them if it 'fixes' something or brightens up a really dark GI area.
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Played a 4-player game for the heck of it on Fast Draw last night. Shoulda won 2 credits on player 3, got nuthin'. Tested all players, only 3 wasn't giving score replays. Pulled its 1K decagon - common wire had broken loose from the circuit board. Wish the cause of every malfunction just popped up in front of my face like that!

Almost never need to work on my Fast Draw but lately it's been intermittently missing score replays and knocks. Narrowed it down to only player one, then to the 1000 reel score disc by wiggling things around while I held the 1000 relay pressed in at a replay score and it knocked and I saw a spark. Ground lug had the wire attached so it looked fine, but on the other side of the disc the solder around the lug had come loose so the lug and wire were just spinning loose in the solder. Resoldered, fixed.

While I was in there, noticed the 10 reel's two screws that hold the score disc down had worked themselves terribly loose. Tightened them but then the advance to '9' was now sluggish/iffy... readjusted the reel switches and now '9' advance is nice and smooth.