SOF GI Fuse blowing

[Matt Adams]

Hi Guys,

On my SOF the right sling shot and ball guide GI was out with the 5A S/B fuse on the interconnect board having blown. I replaced the fuse just in case it was a dodgy one. When I powered back up the GI came on for a little while but then the fuse popped again.

Any idea's what I should be looking at?

Cheers,

Matt.

 

[Spandangler]

Mate. I've had similar problems on taxi. Replace GI fuse. After a random amount of time (seconds. Minutes, hours) it would blow. I couldn't find any shorts.

I was running out of fuses fast so thought I should actually try and fault find it!!!!
I found the header pins on the relay boards which flash the GI (one on the backbox lamp board and one under the playfield bottom right corner) were toast. Replaced those pins and connectors and never had a problem since.

Not sure if SOF has those relay boards but worth a look.

 

[Matt Adams]

Thanks Gaz,

Yes it does have those relays, I had to replace the back box one when I first got it as it was fried, top tip, will check later

 

[Matt Adams]

Finally got a bit of time to mess about with this, both relays looked fine so I swapped them round to see if the fault moved but its been fine, I have had it running for an hour with no problems, go figure! There was a blown bulb in the sling shot that I didn't notice before, I am wondering if that was causing it somehow?

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

I blame Lionman.

LIONMAN !!!

LIONMAN !!!

 

[Matt Adams]

Never could work out why he shouts it twice!

 

[replicas]

Could it be a echo ???

 

[Matt Adams]

Its a bloody annoying one if it is