Quoted from indypinhead:After enjoying my WOZ for the last couple months, it finally quit playing.
The problem...the ball lock won't release the balls. At first, I could shake the machine, and the arm would raise and release a ball. Then, when locking ball #2, I noticed that the arm would twitch a bit, like it was wanting to lift, but it wouldn't.
The arm won't raise in coil test.
I also noticed I now have an issure in test report. It is telling me to check matrixed switch #70 RESCU(E).
Not sure what's up.
OP, you have two issues. Let's just take them one at a time.
The RESCU(E) switch. From what I noticed, they added a lot of new counts in 4.0. Just by position the (E) switch doesn't get hit that often. Plus, after the upgrade, the new counts seemed to find things that just haven't been hit in a while. As others said, pop the glass off, go into switch test and just trigger it with your finger. It is probably just gapped a bit too far.
My opinion is that they may change the counts in a later revision for this stuff. Some of them seemed to be too small. Kind of like the older Williams game that would report switch errors, like 74 on Getaway which simply meant you were playing crappy for too long, or the triggers on the Demo Man handles.
The other one (ball lock) is a problem a few people have had. And it can be a bit difficult to understand. But really what is going on is that the U in the front of that wireform gets a bit too low and hooks the front of the first ball. That coil is not strong enough to move the wireform up, and it gets worse the more balls that are behind it because they lean on the first ball in the lock increasing it's effective weight against the wireform.
The easiest solution for that is to first release the balls, and then test that coil in the test menus. If it reacts normally with no balls there, you will need to bend the wireform up a bit so the middle of the ball rests against the bottom of the U at the front of the wireform. If the release does NOT work in the tests, most likely it is a bad connection / broken solder joint. Both of them are pretty quick fixes.
And yes, the posting topic was inflammatory in my opinion. You might want to try something like "Balls not releasing from lock on WOZ", or something stating the actual issue rather than "My WOZ finally broke down". But hey, if that is the way you want to state it, have at it.
And if you need a picture describing what I mean by the U shape in the wireform, let me know. I'd be happy to help. And if you're not comfortable adjusting that yourself, you can set the locks to be virtual until someone more comfortable with it can look at it. And just so you are aware, sometimes when you adjust that wireform it changes the timings of the locks. So if you start getting two balls when it should only release one you will need to shorten the time the gate is open (That last one is just FYI).
Dave