Nope. it's a known and chronic problem on Stern games. Both flipper transistors blew on my NIB LOTR LE within 5-6 months of home use. And TWO friends also blew them in about the same time. All with perfectly-connected diodes. Hold the flipper up a bit too long, and blown fuse and fried transistor. Happens on many other games too.

The solution is to replace it with an IRL540. The transistors Stern uses for the flippers are under-specced for the purpose. I have *never* heard of an IRL540 ailing in this application.

2/12: Demo Man elevator error. Wire broken on upper opto, and leads of connector on the elevator index board (lower opto) were bent and not connected. Fixed. (The various rarely-used claw option switches were activated to remove the credit dot too!)

Just for the record, it was NOT me that did this! But Stampede is playing fine at Cowgirl. Sherry says hi!