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Spike 2 Slam Tilt issue

kevlar

kevlar

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I've had my Foo premium since last June and it's played flawlessly until yesterday, the day I hosted a league meet icon_evil.gif. In practice while I was playing it the shot sounds stopped playing, then SLAM TILT followed by a full reset. l played again straight after, same again. Now in December/January I replaced 8 x GI lamp sockets that had just exploded so my first call was to lift the playfield and look for a short off any GI socket, straight away found 2 more just fallen apart! FFS Stern quality at its best! I don't think either of these sockets were causing the problem but taped up the loose GI connections anyway. A few games later it slam tilted and reset again so it was turned off for the day. Has anyone else had this issue? I don't think it's an actual slam tilt, there is no slam tilt switch. Also the machine went a bit wonky for about 10 seconds with loss of sounds before the slam tilt message. If the GI lamps falling apart did cause a short I believe the result is normally a message about a short on whichever string is affected, not a slam tilt. There's a thread on pinside about the same issue with no conclusions reached ( a few people have had it happen ).
 
Pick Holder said:
Sounds like a cabinet node issue.
Does the premium come with a shaker?
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No but I added a shaker supplied by Phil. I've temporarily unplugged the shaker and had 1 game this evening which went fine ( it played fine for 30 minutes yesterday after the initial 2 x slam tilts before it did it again ). I'll play test some more, and maybe swap cab node board with another machine tomorrow, see if I can isolate the issue.

Thanks for the reply @Pick Holder
 
I'd say it was a bug in the operating system.

Have you replaced the SD card with a decent branded one like SanDisk?
 
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Was there not a capacitor kit released to resolve slam tilt issues?
Pretty sure I fitted one on mine when I fitted my shaker.
 
Andydn said:
Was there not a capacitor kit released to resolve slam tilt issues?
Pretty sure I fitted one on mine when I fitted my shaker.
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Yes and I've fitted them too, but that was to older versions of the cabinet node board, shouldn't need 1 on Foo Fighters ( I believe). Good shout though, I'm going to double check that. I could swap a cap kit off another machine and try it.
 
kevlar said:
Yes and I've fitted them too, but that was to older versions of the cabinet node board, shouldn't need 1 on Foo Fighters ( I believe). Good shout though, I'm going to double check that. I could swap a cap kit off another machine and try it.
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One of the shaker motor kits I installed (supplied by Phil) had the inline capacitor.

It was the pinsound shaker kit.

You could of killed the node if it was supplied and unfitted......
 
Pick Holder said:
One of the shaker motor kits I installed (supplied by Phil) had the inline capacitor.

It was the pinsound shaker kit.

You could of killed the node if it was supplied and unfitted......
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I think all the shakers I've had off Phil have been Pinball Life shakers. No inline caps.

I've had about a dozen games ( and a code update last night ) since Sundays slam tilts without issue. Monitoring.....
 
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