Why Would Hitting My Contactors Trigger Non Controlled Lights?

[Dazz]

So, my cab has been working great. I packed it up and took it to the show and got it setup. All of a sudden when I hit anything that triggers a contactor it causes my non-controlled lights to trigger. These are just button lights that are plugged into my 5v and terminal ground strip.

Any ideas what would cause that?

[bent98]

Sounds like hey are ground out or a loose connection.

[zebulon]

Yup, sounds like the lights lost their ground and are sinking through the contactors. Either that or they have shorted the ground line somewhere closer to the contactors and are using that instead of the ground terminal.

 

Try hooking the ground for the lights directly to a ground lead from the psu. 

[Dazz]

Figured it out. As you guys said it was a ground issue. One of my ground wires wasn't making contact on my terminal strip. Tracked it down with a meter and once fixed all is well. I would have never seen the problem wire.

Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction.

Got to play some Wizard of Oz... I WANT one!

[maxxsinner]

Great to hear you got it sorted Dazz.

[shimoda]

I guess I hadn't seen about WIzard of Oz yet. I was just thinking about a theme for a game to make and thought about this. Darn...too late. Table looks great. Expensive, but great.

[Loafmeister]

Dazz: sorry for off topic post but you started it . Is the WOZ shown at the show using more complete software? All previous sightings have had it missing many features.

I understand the pinball arcade guys are supposed to be there and they are supposed to show something cool for the iPad. Let us know what that is or if there is some news on pc version

[Loafmeister]

I gather that is your cab Dazz shown here? Nice!!!

http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/tpf2013/index.html

[Dazz]

Yup, thats my cab and the modded Zizzle is my buddy top1percent.

[ViriiGuy]

Looking Good Dazz!