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Quoted from davijc02:I’m ready to call and order my JP2 Pro but am very concerned with the node board issue.
Really wanting this game but don’t want to find myself in an electronics mess a few months down the road with no other fix than to shell out another several hundred dollars in boards which could fry themselves a few months down the road.
Stern will support you in the near term, it’s the longer term that’s more of a concern.
Quoted from TigerLaw:Is it correct that the node boards are not fused?
Well, they are internally fused in some way. If a short is detected, they shut down and come back up when the short is cleared. Doesn’t mean you can’t blow them up.
Quoted from paul_8788:I don't think we will in five years either. I have had three Spike machines (still have two) and have never had a node board problem (Zero defects, Spike is perfect!). That means just as little as one guy having two machines and having node board issues on both (100% crap! Spike is doomed). Without a reasonable, verifiable sample size of people with Spike pins with issues vs those without, it is kind of meaningless.
Personally, I will continue to buy Spike games because I think the issue is overblown on here, people will always post their problems vs successes so it presents a bit of a skewed reality. The vast majority of complaints on here have also been resolved, by Stern, for free even if out of warranty.
However, I think everyone would be a lot less concerned if Stern just dropped the profit margin on the boards. If you design a system where you expect the solution to problems to be simply swapping in a new board, the boards should be way more reasonable. I am all in favor of making a profit, but a $1000.00 cpu board is ridiculous. Feels like a cash grab at the expense of your customers so they won't have a several thousand dollar paper weight.
Search pinside, plenty of evidence of spike boards failing. I don’t think it’s overblown any more than non spike games. Is the failure rate any higher than other systems, unclear. Your boards may not have had an issue, but what if they do? Unlikely you can fix it and the boards are very expensive to replace, IF you can even find them. I hope the spike boards become more available and at more reasonable prices because stern spike games are a lot of fun, just feels like kind of rolling the dice.
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