{"id":146,"date":"2008-12-12T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:40","slug":"a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"A breakthrough!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>As far as the intermittent fault with the Opto Board is concerned, I have established that the problem lies with either the 12V or ground wires going to the plug. I established this by carefully pushing the cables into the plug receptacles ever so slightly with a small screwdriver. Whereas the problem didn&#8217;t go away, it improved significantly. So I just need to improve the connection to the plug to solve this problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And, I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t think of this before, but having removed the opto board from the plug, I took one of my 1N4004 diodes, put the cathode in receptacle 4 and the anode in receptacle 5 of the plug, to simulate an &#8220;on&#8221; opto switch. I then actuated the left outer lane switch of the main play field and the pseudo opto switch didn&#8217;t switch off!!!! So my long running problem is definitely with the opto board.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough&#8230;.. As far as the intermittent fault with the Opto Board is concerned, I have established that the problem lies with either the 12V or ground wires going to the plug. I established this by carefully pushing the cables into the plug receptacles ever so slightly with a small screwdriver. Whereas the problem didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}