My fish tales resets

[pinball-collector]

hello,, hope every one had a good easter,,just pulled my fish tales out of storage, starts up fine, but when l hit the flippers, dont matter what one, the machine turns off and resets, sound like a voltage problem, have not had time to look yet, what would the most likely problem would be? any ideas.. was working fine befor l stored it.

[Caveoftreasures]

check the 5 Volt reg on the power supply board. sounds like its low. grab a multi-meter.

if you are not sure what to do, PM Beaky, or he can post some info.

[beaky]

Sounds like faulty capacitors for the +5 volt. Or broken / missing diodes on the flipper coils.
If it is the capacitors then more than likely all the other electrolytic capacitors are cactus or on their way out also.
also try reseating the plugs on J102 & J114 on the power driver board and J210 on the CPU board in case its just a bad Connection.
Bad solder joints on those plugs ,the bridge rectifier or the 5 volt reg can also cause this to happen. 

[Strangeways]

Rule of thumb on the Bally / Williams machines - change all the Bridge rectifiers and capacitors. Caps are usually rated to 10 years, so they are overdue anyway ! I covered the process on my Addams Family thread, Page 4 - http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=2969.45

The parts are available from RTBB. You can also replace just the corresponding +5VDC cap ad BR. You could also replace C4 It's a 100uf, 10V cap (from memory).

As Beaky mentioned, check the diodes on the flipper coils as this would be the easiest and cheapest fix.

[pinball-collector]

ok, thank you, will try the connectors, have done nothing to it, yet,l do have a new MM here, will check the voltage, l did get a couple of games out of it, befor it started to play up,,will get that board to you soon Strangeways.. thank you

[beaky]

ok, thank you, will try the connectors, have done nothing to it, yet,l do have a new MM here, will check the voltage, l did get a couple of games out of it, befor it started to play up,,will get that board to you soon Strangeways.. thank you

did u mean beaky or strangeways regarding the board?
if it was me and you still have problems with the fishtales and you cant sort it out send the power driver board up with the system 11 power supply and i will fix it also.

[pinball-collector]

ok, thank you, will try the connectors, have done nothing to it, yet,l do have a new MM here, will check the voltage, l did get a couple of games out of it, befor it started to play up,,will get that board to you soon Strangeways.. thank you

did u mean beaky or strangeways regarding the board?
if it was me and you still have problems with the fishtales and you cant sort it out send the power driver board up with the system 11 power supply and i will fix it also.

he he he,, it was you Beaky, l ment,, l got curious, and went out for a play,, got it working, end up being a connector, dont know what one, but l unplugged and plugged , also most of the board mounting screws were, almost out, may had a earth problem aswall. paid for the real driver rubber, that should not be to far way,then should be running fine, for a while, thanx everyone.

[beaky]

well done. if it starts resetting again check the +5 voltage.