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my backlite reels will work fine but none of the bulbs wont come on? i tried another set of reels same thing no bulbs turn on but they reels work fine? dont no where to start? all of a sudden this happened reels were working fine all along.....

Start by checking all you connections. Make sure there are no lose connections

checked the connections everything looks fit.....

Maybe your backlit controller is bad. If you have multiple machines, put your reels from the original problem machine into a different one.

could a backlite controller just go bad ?  i only have one s2k...

It could, yes. It appears you're not getting any juice to the reel bulbs. Important question = are the bulbs dim when idle????

Yes, all the time

im getting no dimness at all on any of the reels on idle heres a pic of my controller i think thats the controller.....

Therefore no power to the reel lights. I'm sure someone else with more experience can stamp my opinion. Wish you had another controller to test with...

does anyone have a extra board for sale? im thinking thats my alternative to swap out controller boards....

I doubt it would be hard to find one. Just post an ad in the classifieds... Staz, have you noticed that at the casinos that more than half of the s2000's have a reel light problem??, :30-

It annoys the crap outta me! Of course unless I have a nice hit - then who gives a rats ass right?!!?

If the machine is a 3 reel I have an extra I can part with.  PM me.

yes its a 3 reel.....what would cuase  the lights not to get any juice? the machine didnt even notice that in i/o test mode i tested the lights and it thinks the lights work?  allways something with this machine....

it feels weird playing my machine with no backlitereels lol.... im waiting on a backlite controller to swap out..... hopefully thats the problem if it isnt any suggestion what else it can be?

before i reinstall the new bc  i wanna make sure it will work cuz the one in there looks different.... 1st pic is the one i just took out and 2nd pic is the one i just got to put in....is there a difference?????????? what a pain in the ass to take out :279-

yeyyy :89- it works i got backlite lights again....... i wanna thank every one on this thread for the help!!! :259-

Glad to hear you're backlit again. Now take a picture when you land all three 5X pay symbols!  :88-

Danny

i just turned my machine on and again the backlite lights arnt working..... :37- :37- :37- what the hell is happining...... i replaced the controller board yesterday and they worked all night now today i get no dim lights nothing!!!! what do i do now???????

Staz, any chance you're using LED bulbs in those reels? Or anything other than the origionals? I ask because I burned a controller trying to switch to LEDs

im using reg bulbs

if the controller was bad it wouldnt of worked all day yesterday..... i even swapped mpu boards still no lights i cant think of what can be cuaseing this?

Faulty cabinet IO card maybe? Or a short in the reel harness/reel assemblies is a possibility also I suppose

after i took it appart and put it back together now it works again?? very strange.....

Sounds like a harness wire or plug issue

i was affraid of that.... it has to be a royal pain in the ark to take the old harness out and replace it.......so i think my next move is to get a new harness...... if problem continues.....

while we are all here and on the same page...does anyone have the pinout for the harness that goes from the B/L controller board to the Cab i/o. Might come in handy here and I could use it too....sorry to hijack the thread.

That's what I was thinking. It's not that bad to swap though. Six plugs and 3 clips after you get the reels out, could be worse...

look at the disaster of wires lol where do i begin.....

Check the ones that go from your bc to the reels.
Wiggle the harness with the power on and watch the reel lamps.

i wiggled them nothing..... could it be the bc ant getting power at times :103-

Could be an intermittent P.S. too.

what does that mean?

Power Supply could be going bad...

I still think it's just a loose receptor pin in the harness though.
You seemed to get life into the lamps after every bc change.
I'd be wiggling those wires too - while watching the reel lamps.

If it was a bad PS he'd lose more than backlit reals I would think. Bunker's probably on the right track

which plugs on the bc controll the lamps?

The 14-pin and 10-pin Molexes on the backlit control board control and power the lamps.
If you pull them off the board, the game works fine - just no lights though...  :5-

The 14-pin Molex powers the lamps for reels 1-3.
The 10-pin Molex powers reel lamps 4-5 on a 5 reel machine.

whats the 4 pin molex for?

Power for the bc board.

so pretty much my problem could be either molex harness..... i might have to get a whole new harness

Hardly...all you need to do is find the cuplrit receptor pin and bend it with a needle.
This way it will "grab" a male pin better.
Have you've NEVER seen all the posts on "De-Oxit" de-oxidzation spray ?
Go to Radio Schnack and get yourself a can of it and spray it into the Molexes.
Let dry then wiggle the plugs back on.

For now though - you can get by by pushing the wires from the back of the connectors into the housings.
I'll bet you pulled one out of the connector housing ever so slightly.
Most people pull on the wires instead of the sides of the housings then report that something's not working.
In your case, somebody could have pulled on the wires a bit and wiggle one loose.
Since you're the only in there - my guess is that it's you.... :72-

Since you have a 3 reel game...I'd really inspect  :209- the heck out of the 10-pin Molex.

Last week we had a guy crying all week his machine wasn't working
when it turned out that he was messing around with it and bent a pin.

well its working so far so ill leave it alone till it happens again...... i was trying to understand what everything does.... the harness that connects to the io what does that do? also what does this part do? im learning slowly lol.....

The harness to the cabinet IO is the interface to the mpu and controls the backlighting. Your picture is the mpu to sas interface I think