Thanks to Dan on Tuesday for detouring after work to come and check out Hot Tip and have a couple of games of Metallica Pro with me. Especially on such a hot day! We went over the operation of an EM and Dan checked out some of the switches. Still no further, but it's a new start.

Oldpins, I had time tonight to go over Hot Tip and what you suggested. I went over the coin relay, made sure all the switches were making proper contact and gave them a clean. With the machine on, I also checked operation and manually pressed the relay. It acted the same.

I reset all the stepper units to zero by hand to make sure they are all at zero. The Game Over relay is latched. I press start and the machine goes through its paces, but does not kick the ball out and the drop targets don't reset. It is getting stuck before the Outhole Relay is activated. I can press the Outhole Relay manually and the drop targets reset and with Dan checking the outhole kicker, the coil actually fires.

Tonight, I manually pressed the bonus unit switch with a bit of cardboard when the machine was turned on and this also reset the drop targets and fired the outhole kicker. I now need to find the missing link in the startup sequence. The flippers work, can manually kick the ball out, but when it drains, nothing registers on the switch.

So close!!!!!

Adam.