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Re: These b*stards hate me - they REALLY hate me !
« on: February 26, 2012, 06:19:05 PM »
How'd you go , have you sorted it out ?


Uh oh  *!@

Just found this at RGP - could this be me now  !@#

> I have a '92 Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon and Column 4 on the switch
> matrix is dead.  I've done some basic checking and I'm thinking that I may have
> blown a line on the LN2803 IC.  I was changing a right slingshot GI bulb near
> one of the switches on Column 4 (the right slingshot switch!) of the matrix and
> think I may have shorted the switch and blown a line on the 2803.

Yep ... common problem.

If your U20 (the ULN 2803) isn't already in a socket, make sure you put
one in prior to replacement -- those chips fail often.  Newer CPU's
(the security and WPC 95 cpu) put 'em in sockets at the factory.