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New pin: Lethal Weapon 3 (Update: FIXED)

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shardian:
Trading the 2 leftover boards toward the new board. I am quite happy with the deal. New board should be here on Wednesday or Thursday.

Will probably be sending off the PSU to the guy for a rebuild too. I will be happy to abandon board work on this one and concentrate on the playfield work that I like the best.

shardian:
Got the board in. Plugged it in this evening and it works great. Considering he is taking both of my other boards that are now in crappy condition (I treated the rev 2 like a parts board after that driver melted down) in trade, I came out pretty well. I would have preffered better, but I'll take what I can get at this point.
Of course the DMD is still splotchy. I'm going to pull the PS again and look it over good. I reflowed everything questionable on it, so don't know why it would be doing this. IIRC, it was fine before I did the reflowing. Weird... I apparently just don't get along with this machine!

shardian:
I put the power board back in this morning, and decided to check the fuses and verify they were correct. I thought I had done this before...

Anyways, there was a 10A fuse in F6 - F6 is the solenoid fuse... So yeah, I know why I melted down that Rev. 2 board now... can't believe I overlooked this before!! I was convinced I had checked it out!
After making a mad dash special trip to Rat shack and realizing the employee was a moron (told me they had 5A slo blows), I had to settle on a pack of 4A and 6A fuses. I went with the 6A since I figured it would still pop if there was a problem, but not pop because a kid was wailing on the flippers during multiball.

Game ran perfectly with a ton of play for about 4 hours. Matter of fact, the 'splotchy' effect on the DMD almost went away. There was only the tiniest amount of splotch after about an hour. Something is up with the police light at the top of the cab though. The fuse was blown before, so I replaced it. I know it was working for at least a while, but after a while it was not on during M-ball. I'll have to figure out why the 1A fuse is popping on that, though it is a pretty minor thing. I never notice the light while I'm playing anyways.

Now it is time to clean her up good. Like I've said before, this pin is just a great all around game to slap the ball around. Everyone seems to enjoy Whodunnit, but the rules confuse the hell out of them. With LW3, there is no confusion.

shardian:
No no, the splotches magically showed up a a few months back after I took out the PSU to give it a once over. Today the splotchiness actually almost completely went away after the machine was on for a while. I'm thinking it may just be the temperature or some cold solder on the DMD board. Who knows. That room is normally pretty cold, but it was pretty warm in there this evening with all the people, games, and heater on.

shardian:
Sure enough, the splotch effect was in full force with the room cold last night.

makes me wonder if the problem is in the power supply, or just a DMD going bad. Yes Jim, I know swapping DMD's is the test. If I get a spare hour sometime in the near future, I will swap the displays.

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