{"id":1937,"date":"2011-03-10T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:44:40","slug":"opto-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Opto problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the problem reported in my last post regarding the intermittent fault on one pair of optos wasn&#8217;t simply solved by cleaning. In fact it didn&#8217;t matter how often I cleaned the opto pair, the fault would repeatedly come back &#8211; but not permanently. Time to investigate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>On taking the necessary opto apart I was horified to discover a lead which had never been soldered. This means that this pinball machine has had this intermittent fault since its birth:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1938\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1938\" title=\"IMG_2126\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2126-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2126-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2126.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source of an intermittent problem<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the problem reported in my last post regarding the intermittent fault on one pair of optos wasn&#8217;t simply solved by cleaning. In fact it didn&#8217;t matter how often I cleaned the opto pair, the fault would repeatedly come back &#8211; but not permanently. Time to investigate&#8230;. On taking the necessary opto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sttng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}