Cue Ball Wizard problems

[soundasleep]

Given how many people have owned one of these over the years, I'm hoping this will be a relatively easy fix...

The Skill Shot isn't working anymore. Was fine yesterday, went to play a game tonight and nothing.

The Opto on the ramp is detecting the ball (if I run my finger past it I get the "Weak shot" sound effect) and the motor is moving the 8-Ball Shooter, but I can't get it to actually shoot anymore.

Where should I start looking?

[studley67]

does the coil fire in test mode?

[soundasleep]

I think the 8 Ball Coil is "Solenoid 10: Ball Shooter" and no, it doesn't.

Looks like I didn't pay enough attention to the fuses - F27 is blown and guess what it controls ;)

I'll pay Altronics a visit tomorrow morning and hopefully that's all that's wrong. Never a spare fuse around when you need one...

On the bright side I also need to replace the power lead and that looks to be much easier than I was expecting it to be.

[studley67]

good stuff.lets hope it is only the fuse.
I have had my cbw for 10 years now and it has NEVER had a single problem.

[Strangeways]

I think the 8 Ball Coil is "Solenoid 10: Ball Shooter" and no, it doesn't.

Looks like I didn't pay enough attention to the fuses - F27 is blown and guess what it controls ;)

I'll pay Altronics a visit tomorrow morning and hopefully that's all that's wrong. Never a spare fuse around when you need one...

On the bright side I also need to replace the power lead and that looks to be much easier than I was expecting it to be.

Also check the mains fuse. If the game was from the USA, it will have the wrong fuse.

[soundasleep]

Replaced the fuse and everything is working as it should again :)

The machine originally came from Germany so it was already 240v, all that's left now is to put on an Aussie power lead so it can be Tested N Tagged :)

[studley67]

easy fix

[soundasleep]

I replaced the power cable today, and now that the ground actually goes anywhere I've noticed the strange replay score bug (Showing scores like 523,??3,000).

However the 8 Ball Launcher keeps blowing fuses. First one lasted about an hour. Second one lasted less than 5 minutes.

I'm tempting to try a higher rated fuse but I'm concerned I'll just blow something more important. Tips?

[humpalot]

Replace the 2 round white targets at the front of the horseshoe with normal switch blade targets and add foam to absorb the ball impact.  Bet those original smart switches are shot.

[soundasleep]

Well it worked perfectly for a few weeks anyway...

The fuse that kept blowing? Looks like it was protecting the coil. I foolishly over-fused it and the 8-Ball coil let out the magical blue smoke tonight.

I notice neither RTBB nor PBSP seem to carry a Gottlieb A19300. Is there anyway to work out if there is a suitable "similar"?

[humpalot]

blown for a reason, replace those targets 

Most likely need to repair the driver board now too