Update:
Well the playfield has gone back in and all the wiring connected so the time came to fire the ol' girl up. As I had not ever had this pin running before, I decided to do it in stages, with fingers crossed:
- Transformer with nothing connected, then
- CPU board - yay it booted
- with GI connected
- with solenoids connected
No house fuse tripped, and no 'magic smoke' escaped, so I was pretty happy.
So far so good, so I now decided to put it into test mode to see how things were going. Here came my first problem, the 'escape' and 'up' buttons didn't work. A few hours later and some jumpers on the CPU board between U13, U14, and U15 and I had all the coin door buttons active.
Next I tried the solenoid test, this was mixed, some fired, some didn't, some were intermittent. I found that a number of fuse holders were loose, so tightened them up and a few solenoids started to fire and the intermittent ones stopped being intermittent. I still have to find what's stopping the lower jet bumper and diverter from working
The next test was the flippers - Hmm, only one working, which was the upper right. Both the lower flippers didn't even budge. I had hoped it was a fuse issue again, but it was not to be. Someone managed to solder the outside coil wires the wrong way around
. That little rooky mistake cost me a few fuses, a couple of drivers on the fliptronic board and new diodes on the coils.
I still have a number of lights to trouble-shoot, but I am hopeful that many of these will be simple little problems. I was thinking that the pin would be ready for a game in the next few days, but it's probably going to be another couple of weeks. I still need to order a new set of mountains as I'm a couple short - hopefully he will be back from fishing soon.
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That reminds me, seeing as there are a few people who aren't topper fans does anyone have a white water topper tucked away? I know I've got buckleys, but thought I'd ask (beg). Maybe Twisted Pins will finally get their repo made soon
Cheers,
Andy
