Well, here's an interesting one for you tech guys.

The single red (with white stripes) wire broke off of plug J106. According to the manual, this wire supplies 20v to the 4 flashers in the backbox.

I ordered the tool to enable me to reconnect the wire to the plug but, in the meantime, all 4 flashers still work, both during the game and in test mode. How can this be?

I physically traced the red wire back to the 4 flashers, just to be sure and, yes, sure enough, it's the wire that dropped off of the plug, so it is not getting power from anywhere!

This makes no sense to me. Where are the flashers getting their 20v from?

Thanks for your input guys.

Roger

ToM

Wow, Zaza. You are good! Thank you.

But, if the flashers in the Backbox can pick up the current from the playfield flashers through J107, then why does the machine need the 20v from J106 in the first place?

Roger

Great... thank you for the explanation