I'm pretty sure you're screwed until you get a new power supply

How did you add this? Between the wall and the game? Or in the 5v after the lighting power supply? Has it helped?

Maybe he avoids threads like these because:

1) everyone gets up in arms and has an emotional coronary every time he posts something
2) this is the business of owners who can read in his forums not here where all the trolls that didn't even buy the machine to comment.

You people have made Pinside an extremely hostile place for anyone making a pinball machine to hang out. Then staff bans people like Alex and that just leaves a bunch of whiners that can only complain about code and prices. Its a shame.

I think the machines that were burning through boards had power supply issues. My game had been solid since the new oiwer supply went in.

I haven't changed anything other then the power supply and everything stabilized. I was blowing 7v boards every game before. I can say that in my game, it was the power supply. I like the power conditioner idea.

You have to after doing a power supply swap otherwise all the 5v boards will blow up from being driven by 7.5v. But before swapping the power supply I had many 7.5v boards already in and they were blowing up also. In fact, whatever I put into 15 would blow up after every skill shit or extra ball animation 7.5v or not. The new power supply solved it.

Maybe I should mount the conditioner inside the machine and run a new power cable from conditioner to wall. They way it's just part of the woz.

Where are those flashes coming from?

Like were they from the LEDs? Or flashes from inside the cabinet?

That seems like some sort of bad surges

I'm not sure what you see, but I just see regular led boards in those images.

Dcfan: thanks. I really didn't notice it until you circled it haha