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Offline Caveoftreasures

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Thankyou daics3522/Beaky
« on: November 27, 2009, 07:55:40 PM »
A quick note to say a big thankyou to Craig (daics3522) for sending me some photos of the under playfield of FRANKENSTEIN.

The FRANKENSTEIN on my playfield had never really moved since I have had the machine for 12 months.
Beaky (Andrew) came over and after checking out the pin, felt the electronic servo that controls Franks head (which turn side to side) had been replaced but with a different wiring set up on the 3 x pins.

After recieving photos from daics3522 (craig) we were able to confirm the wiring was wrong and that the servo was also on the wrong set of jumpers. Now, Franky works fine and my wife will start playing her favourite pin again.
Thanks Daics and Beaky. Two top blokes for going out of their way to help the caveman. cheers fellas !

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Re: Thankyou daics3522/Beaky
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 12:18:45 AM »
no probs mate.

as per usual repairs are always a little more challenging when some one else with a little knowledge (with enough knowledge to be dangerous) has attempted to repair a pin.

And i liked the excuse the fellow who attempted to fix it gave you, "I repaired it but if it doesn't work when you plug it in then the opto's have gone out of alignment , its a common problem with this pin, when you transport it the optos always seem to go out of alignment"

I found that explanation strange because of the lack of optos in that part of the pin.

So in transportation 2 pins on the socket jumped out of their positions and managed to swap them selves around then jump back into the socket. then the socket managed to jump off the first set of headers and jump onto the second set of headers. Then you have the solenoid controlled arms that dont go back far enough for thr balls to land on them. And last there is the problem of one of the gates sticking in the open position.

Yeah right the optos have moved  !!@
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Re: Thankyou daics3522/Beaky
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2009, 03:22:56 AM »
no probs matey.
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Re: Thankyou daics3522/Beaky
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2009, 12:36:18 PM »
So in transportation 2 pins on the socket jumped out of their positions and managed to swap them selves around then jump back into the socket. then the socket managed to jump off the first set of headers and jump onto the second set of headers. Then you have the solenoid controlled arms that dont go back far enough for thr balls to land on them. And last there is the problem of one of the gates sticking in the open position.

Wow, and I thought it was just some connectors came loose when transporting a pin - don't think I like the way they can fully rewire themselves, last time I ship a game.
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Re: Thankyou daics3522/Beaky
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2009, 06:48:59 PM »
So in transportation 2 pins on the socket jumped out of their positions and managed to swap them selves around then jump back into the socket. then the socket managed to jump off the first set of headers and jump onto the second set of headers. Then you have the solenoid controlled arms that dont go back far enough for thr balls to land on them. And last there is the problem of one of the gates sticking in the open position.

Wow, and I thought it was just some connectors came loose when transporting a pin - don't think I like the way they can fully rewire themselves, last time I ship a game.
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