New to the Xenon club!

Mine turns on ( some solid backglass+ playfield lights) but the game does not boot. I looked and the MPU it has (alltek) was not getting ANY power whatsoever. It actually has an Alltek solenoid driver board and newly repaired soundboards, so I think the only original boards left are the lamp driver and rectifier boards, both of which seem undamaged but dirty.

Checked the rectifier board underneath and the F3 fuse was blown.

Is there anything else I should consider ordering other than replacement fuses for the Xenon? It does need two posts for the outlanes on each side, but other than that I'm not sure what else would be smart to have on hand.

Thanks so much!!

Does anyone happen to know the sizing on these metal posts (in front of the ball guide wire) ? I cant seem to find an exact substitute.
Wondering if this would work as replacements : https://www.pinballlife.com/1-78-tall-metal-post-with-10-32-threaded-base-15430.html

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I follow Suzanne Ciani on social media and this was on the website she linked about it:

This disc presents the full extent of Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking musical effects for Xenon, in their isolated form, for the first time ever heard outside of the confines of the machine which recently earned the composer her own induction to the Pinball Expo Hall Of Fame.

https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/xenon?fbclid=IwAR1EkL-IYwrDSyATkXoMxn462D-v43T8HHjeiTfSlH20OLijKe5p6BFELKA

Wow, I didn't know that! I have game #1033 so I guess that would be game 33.

I now have my Xenon fully playable with the exception of the sound during gameplay. Pressing the red test button on the sounds plus board cycles through the vocals (so the speaker definitely works) and the sound setting is on mode #3.

Sound test from the coin door does not work.. at one point after messing with the sound settings I got one sound when the game boots up, but still no sound in gameplay. Trying to figure out what could be going on using the schematics but I'm stumped!

EDIT: I think it could have to do with one of the adjustment volume pot parts.. one controls volume while the other seems to do almost nothing.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1GE7ZP1qZNe24nQe8

Status on the volume pots! Top one works, sounds come through loud and clear. The lower one seems to control some type of feedback and has no effect on the test sounds.

I noticed a few resistors on my solenoid driver board look swollen and burnt, but I also see the board has had some mods to it. Can anyone confirm these resistors look bad? Wouldn't want to replace the board if it turned out that it was fine and just the board itself looked bad from previous usage/damage.

Lastly...There is a solid yellow wire that had been broken and alligator clipped to connect to Ground, but it seems to have no effect on the game whether it is connected or not.. thoughts? It goes into the upper part of J3 on the solenoid driver board. Not sure if I'm looking at the correct thing here but it might be one of the unused wires.

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My Xenon finally has sound in-game! Huge shout out to geeteoh for his replacement board. I was in a genuine state of shock after hearing just the startup sounds. lol!

It arrived quickly and came with its own instruction manual. The board also fits perfectly into the place where the Sounds plus board was once mounted.
Mine came programmed for an alternate background sound, but I have the "original" soundbank playing right now.

Posted about it here: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/she-finally-speaks-well-moans-shout-out-to-jeff-geeteoh#post-6620677

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Another Xenon mystery.. When the pinball goes through the Xenon spinner, it's occasionally causing the turn to end or the game to restart. Is that a wiring problem? Tried searching the forums but haven't found related issues!