Aladdin's Castle
Bally, 1976Start of game, reels reset, ball kicks out. However motor keeps spinning and relay marked#7 keeps pulling in, coil on coin door keeps firing, outhole kicker keeps firing. Flippers work and each time you score points the ball count unit steps forward . Issue is in the playfield because the motor stops when I pull the right Jones plug . Not used to Ballys or their schematics I'm mostly a Gottlieb guy. Any help would be appreciated . Thanks in advance .
Hi DeltaQueen
I wonder what Your #7 Relay is - I do not see it in the List of coils and relays - do You have a paper tag in the pin telling You #7 ?
I assume Your description is not complete. OK, the Outhole-Kicker fires rhythmically - this is because the Outhole-Relay is pulling steady (does it ?) and faulty does "not let go" (((and the Score-Motor runs and actuates all its switches, rhythmically))). I suspect the Make-and-Brake-Switch on Score-Motor - SCM-8-C. The middle blade has soldered-on wire-yellow, the outer blades have soldered-on wire-white-black, wire-grey-red. When the Switchstack on wheel-8 actuates: connection is cut - connection (in a fully functioning A-Castle) yellow to white-black. You see this in the schematics at F/G/H/J-15.
Here http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=EM_Repair#Bally_Score_Motor good text / good pictures. Wheel-1 is closest to the "real motor".
Maybe You find the fault - maybe we must look further - with a more detailled description (((is the Bonus-Score-Relay pulling ? is the Bonus-Unit stepped down to Zero and actuates the Position-Zero-Switches ? Other relays pulling ?))) Greetings Rolf
P.S.: Did the pin ever run satisfactory in Your possession ?
Yes Rolf it was running correctly this is an intermittent thing that is now stuck . The "7" is written in ink no paper as you can see in photo .
DW74
Rolf,
I have labeled all the relays, found the owners manual. The outhole relay is firing, pulling in and out, causing the coil in the outhole kicker to continually fire. I am wondering if the bonus count unit is stuck and not resetting to 1000 like on all Bally's of this era. I have another Bally, mostly Gottlieb. These schematics I a not used to...
I am going to trace the coil wire for the kicker back to see where it leads.
DQ74
Rolf,
As I suspected the bonus count unit does not reset to 1000 and this start up sequence is not competed.If I manually advance the bonus unit to 1000 the game plays perfectly until the bal drains. Without the bonus until at 1000 the outhole relay pulls in and out indefinitely while the score motor runs, and the ball kicker in the outhole continually fires
DQ
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