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HI All,
New to the pinball game, I thought I'd start with something easy, Atari Middle Earth :lol
Yeah OK I didn't do my research.
The Cab is in good condition, paint a bit faded, chrome a bit tarnished with surface rust.
Backlight art is pretty good.
Playfield is very good with all the plastics there and none cracked.
No glass.
So I got the idea from PO there was something wrong with the transformer. I checked as best I could all the outgoing voltages and found either correct values or nothing. I am not totally sure I stuck the multimeter in the right places though.
Having seen no radically high voltages I thought let's give it a spin...
PO also indicated the main board had been tested and seemed ok.
Results
1. Lights on, and seemed to go into attract mode, but so real sound just a loud HUMMMM!
2. Test switch seemed to go through 4 different modes before back to attract mode. Some of the score display worked.
3. Triggered the coin microswitch credits came up.
4. Pressed start button, drop targets reset, right flippers worked but a bit sticky. Hitting targets seemed to light things up and add to P1 score. then the score just kept going up by about 100 per second with no more input. left flipper blew the solenoid fuse!
5. So I went searching for the short / problem that blew a fuse. Found a few terminals unplugged, broken microswitches, checked every microswitch for action and continuity, found a couple of duds.
6. Turned it back on, then all hell broke loose!:o Every solenoid triggered over and over and over again, all the lights flashed on and off at the same rate of about 3 times a second!:o
At least I know which solenoids work now!
7. Shut it down quickly!
So... Anyone had a similar experience?
Where to go from here?
And yes I now know Atari .....
I'm leaning FAST!
Cheers,
Graham
I have a big garage Bro!
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