I picked one up this weekend. I have a problem with bigfoot's head. It was working but then just quit. Course the error shows on start up...no movement at all. Been looking at the schematics and will continue to but wanted to see if anyone has some quick checks I can make. I do have 14v at J118 on the driver board but in the test mode nothing at the motor. Any thoughts as I dig in....? It is turned on in the adjustments menu.

Hello? Anybody out there? Was hoping at least for a welcome...

Yep....found the posts and yep....bad cap.
Thanks for the responses.

I didn't know there was a listing for one in Tucson. On pinside? Huh!
I have a wanted ad for a fishtails and a few other titles and was contacted to see if I would be interested in a WH20.
Sold a POTC and JM so had to do something.

Been searching this board for solutions to the annoying loud sound I have when shutting down my WH2O. I have found a few interesting ideas and even a components list for a suppression circuit using radio shack p/ns. I think radio shack is dead. Anyway....anyone have any new ideas or fixes that I could try....I am worried about damage to my speakers. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the link

What would the repair be? Everything seems to work fine....just the noise when shut off. If it's just the caps....I can do that. Not sure that would fix it...guess I could try it. Not expensive and not hard to do.

I'll see if I can post a video....
I just don't want to pop a speaker...I can't imagine this being "normal" but maybe it is.

So... posted a while back about bigfoot head problems and I was pointed to the direction of the driver board and a cap that fails. And sure enough....I had a blown cap. So after replacing that... still had problems and have been chasing them ever since. In the meantime I bought a new board and installed it...works like a champ....so decided to replace the transistors and op amp and a few diodes and pretty much rebuild my old board just to see if I could get it working....guess it's the challenge. Success....plug the old board in today and works great. Had to fix a few traces/runs that were bad also. Anyway....bottom line....I now have an extra driver board. So if anyone needs one....let me know. I will part with either one....

Guess I might as well look at those....should be easy enough to replace.

Can do....not sure when I'll get to it though.

I had to repair/replace mine awhile ago....when you lift the playfield it is on the left side toward....I think about in the middle. Very easy to get to. BTW....I have a repaired board if you are interested....

Looks like this.....

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Check that infamous cap and the all the runs on the board...I did replace all the transistors and a few diodes but did find a couple of runs that needed repaired also.