Some or all character positions on a display are blank in display test.
Characters missing from a display
Cause: A failed UDN6118 digit driver; one bad leg blanks one character position, a dead chip blanks many (all of one display on pre-Taxi games).
Fix
- Replace the UDN6118 for those positions.
Systems
Related tips
- UDN display driver chips
- UDN display driver chips
- Segment missing or stuck only on certain characters
- System 9 versus System 11 display data
- Display board chips shown as 4050 are really 4049
- Telling a shorted UDN chip from a shorted display glass
- One segment lit on many characters of the top display: unsoldered leg on a driver chip
- Displays dead after the CPU board was removed
Source: Repairing Williams System 11 Pinball 1986 to 1990, Part Three, Clay Harrell