Odd Display Issue in Gottlieb Haunted House pin

So I was helping a friend with his Haunted House (HH) pin. The bottom playfield stopped kicking the ball back onto the main playfield, and the two right score displays and the center credit/ball display would distort on a cyclic basis – they would show all segments in a flash-flash-pause, flash-flash-pause pattern, and this happened when the game was in attract mode, test mode, or being played. 

The playfield problem was from the three connectors for the bottom playfield not being routed correctly and he accidentally unplugged them when lifting the main playfield – two of the three of them were disconnected. We routed them through the little slot at the back of the bottom playfield, connected everything up and it all started working again. Continue reading Odd Display Issue in Gottlieb Haunted House pin