Hi guys, I have the same problem on my fish tale and Hurricane. I have a complete row of lights dead (see picture). I checked and the voltage is 10 times higher on the line that have a problem (on the Hurricane).
What should be the next step? Is it a broken transistor on the board? What is the list of the root causes for that kind of bug?
Thanks!
Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
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Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
Lights controlled by the CPU (not the General Illumination lights), are controlled in a
similar fashion as a switch matrix. That is, there are eight lamp rows, and eight lamp
columns. This gives a total of 64 CPU controllable lamps. These lamps are powered
by +18 volts DC. This voltage is strobed (turned on and off very quickly), and hence
the final power to the lamps is about 6 volts.
The lamp columns are controlled by TIP107 transistors that switch the +18 volts on
and off many times within a second. The lamp rows are controlled by TIP102
transistors that switch the ground on and off. Because the TIP107's source the
current (instead of sinking the ground like a TIP102), lamp column TIP107 transistors
go bad more often than TIP102 lamp row transistors.
similar fashion as a switch matrix. That is, there are eight lamp rows, and eight lamp
columns. This gives a total of 64 CPU controllable lamps. These lamps are powered
by +18 volts DC. This voltage is strobed (turned on and off very quickly), and hence
the final power to the lamps is about 6 volts.
The lamp columns are controlled by TIP107 transistors that switch the +18 volts on
and off many times within a second. The lamp rows are controlled by TIP102
transistors that switch the ground on and off. Because the TIP107's source the
current (instead of sinking the ground like a TIP102), lamp column TIP107 transistors
go bad more often than TIP102 lamp row transistors.
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
Thanks for the help. Do you know where I can find good "Do it yourself" videos that explain all this with real example?
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
Merci!
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
I think that for your Fish Tales at least you'll likely find a bad / burnt connection on j120 / J121 on the driver board. You can follow the colour of wire to the connector from the backbox insert lamps.
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Re: Need help to trouble shoot a light problem
It was a burned connector for the fish tale
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