Freeport, FL
Hey guys need some advice as my Aerosmith Pro is giving me fits. Started off suddenly the toybox lid would not stay open. Kept falling shut as if it didnt have enough power to hold it up. Researched here on Pinside and talked to Stern, decided the problem was a poor design on the “ plunger head”, the part attached to the end of the plunger which pulls up and sticks to the magnet to hold the lid open.
I ordered the improved part, part number 530-5511-01, which has more surface area for the magnet to grab. A couple threads on here mention this same issue and the problem was resolved by replacing this part. Anyway, very simple to swap out the little part, remove a screw and put this new piece on, nothing to it. So after doing this the game worked great, played a dozen games, toybox lid worked great. Until the next day.
Turned it on and hit start, but wouldnt start a game. Also, the top half of the GI was out, and so were the feature lights and controlled pop bumper lights. Power cycled it and when it came back on the lights were still out but it started a game. Put the ball in play and after about 30 seconds the flippers got weaker and weaker and then the game shut down. And I then noticed an unpleasant burned plastic smell which turns out was the hot as hell toybox lid coil. And then the game would not boot up at all. I unplugged that toybox coils connector and the game booted right up with all GI etc working fine. Wont boot with it connected. So whats going on here? Node board? I dont want to try another node board in case something else is wrong and possibly damages it, if thats even the issue.
I dont know where to start trying to figure out whats wrong. Node boards all test good in test mode BTW. Thanks for any help with this.
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