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Who Dunnit - Flasher over powered?

By hisokajp

8 years ago



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#1 8 years ago

I was trying to reply two dead flasher bulb when I found the previous owner had let them out for a reason. The new bulb were lighting up like crazy (video http://1drv.ms/1AeppLY)!

When checking the board I saw the GI were in a pretty bad shape. I have never tackled GI connectors troubleshooting yet so I am not too sure where to go from there.
The rest works fine even if it seems all flashers are rather dim...

Looking in the manual, from what I understand (limited understanding at this point...) it seems the lower right flasher should have voltage connected to J105-5 and drive to J125-6 with Blu-Grn.
105 in top right corner is completely empty... I think blu-grn also connect to 125-5 if I count it right?

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#2 8 years ago
Quoted from hisokajp:

Looking in the manual, from what I understand (limited understanding at this point...) it seems the lower right flasher should have voltage connected to J105-5

Manual is wrong, should be J106-5 and is in correct place on photo #3

Quoted from hisokajp:

and drive to J125-6 with Blu-Grn...... I think blu-grn also connect to 125-5 if I count it right?

Counting from right to left it looks in correct place as well on photo #1+2

#3 8 years ago

Time to learn board work lol Gonna need a new transistor for them flashers they are probably on the same one.
Also the gi looks like its directly soldered to the header pins so you will probably wanna get 2 molex connectors and redo that .ill try to find all the stuff you need and what transistor needs replaced anc get back to you .

#4 8 years ago

thanks guys, not sure I completely understand quite yet, needs to do quite a bit of reading on that.
I was going to try and redo J120/121 with male/female connector in my next order.

I just wasn't sure those GI really had an effect on the 2 flashers going nuts Since J106-5 is apparently correct as well

I was also trying to find in the manual the information on the other translate flasher, but I couldn't quite find the page where those are listed?

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#5 8 years ago
Quoted from bigd1979:

Time to learn board work lol Gonna need a new transistor for them flashers they are probably on the same one.
Also the gi looks like its directly soldered to the header pins so you will probably wanna get 2 molex connectors and redo that .ill try to find all the stuff you need and what transistor needs replaced anc get back to you .

hey Bigd, I was wondering if you had time to get some more info for this one?

#6 8 years ago

Looks familiar - I think the same guy that wired your Who Dunnit wired mine too!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/whodunnit-gi-issues

I got mine back together and working, just soldered on some new header pins and re-wired the connectors.

Just take a lot of pictures before disconnecting the wires from the board - you can label the connectors with a sharpie as well to help you when re-connecting.

Here's my before and after...

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#7 8 years ago

thanks!

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