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Offline Mr Pinbologist

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Re: Genie back from the dead
« on: September 28, 2012, 10:50:45 PM »

Glad it made it to its new home safe and sound  ^^^

Cool game - Probably my favorite alongside Joker Poker. I think the Genie will look fantastic after Mitch weaves his magic.

Cheers Nino, the work has started  *%*

First thing i suggested was that we get the game up and running first, as i always do to any pin i'm bringing back from the dead and restoring.

So the first thing i did was to remove all the boards and displays to take with me to check them over and repair as needed. The first few pics here show what i was confronted with when i lifted the p/f  for a look see... Hmmm...  Kenwood car speaker.. wouldn't have worried too much about that except for the fact its 4 ohms, and the LM380 in the sound board wants to see an 8 ohm speaker  *!@ this was replaced with a spare original system 1 speaker i had.
 
And 2nd pic; someone had gone to a lot of trouble putting spade connector terminals onto the fuse clips.. another pointless mod that i promptly removed and resoldered the wires back onto the fuse holders. I reckon these connector terminals would've been a pretty major source for problems if left.

And now... 3rd pic... someones attempt to replace the original bridge rectifiers!! WTF were they thinking  ^&^ using 1 amp diodes for f#$Ks sake  !!@
i think its pretty safe to say this is NOT Nino's work here !!

Needless to say this was all the first job i undertook to correct all this mess, in the last pic its all been redone. The line filter had also been disconnected so i assumed it had shorted at some stage in its life (i've seen it happen on a few sys 1 pins) so i replaced that as well. Another thing i do is to rewire the mains fuse holder BEFORE the line filter.. that way if the filter shorts again it'll blow the fuse rather than trip the house's circuit breaker. I also removed the useless US type service power outlet.

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