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Bad Cats 5 drop targets and Seafood wheel HELP! please..

By smersh

10 years ago



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#1 10 years ago

Hi. I have a Bad cats im restoring and have two questions that I need help on.

First... When I coin up the game all the drop targets reset, great, but when any or all of the 5 drop targets drop they give no points and don't reset until game is coined up again.

Second.... My seafood wheel just twitches will not turn. I have bought a new williams stepper motor installed it and it did the same as the motor that was in it. I even just but the motor in my hand and did a wheel test, no shaft spinning. Also the motor seems to bind when energized.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#2 10 years ago

#1 - the game isn't sensing the targets are down. I would guess the +12 that the opto board needs isn't making it there. Check the power connector at the opto board to make sure it's plugged in. If it is, go into the backbox and on the left side of the interconnect board, there are 2 connectors that are 3 pins - 1 brings the +12 to the interconnect board, the 2nd one takes it from the interconnect board to the playfield - perhaps one of those is unplugged.

Regarding the motor, check the voltage at the motor, perhaps it's not getting the correct voltage to run.

#3 10 years ago

Also regarding the motor. check the circuitry on its driver board, I had lots of issues, a few problem components just pulled off board but the main culprit turned out to be a bad lm339.

#4 10 years ago

Pull the connectors off the interconnect board and look for any burnt pins.
I had burnt pins on mine that kept my seafood wheel from turning. Wish I recall which connector that it most likely would be.

#5 10 years ago

What John says. Both the drop target optos and the stepper motors use 12V, so most likely it's either disconnected either at the input or output of the interconnect board or where it leaves the power supply (but the power supply itself should be fine as the CPU wouldn't boot without 12V.)

#6 10 years ago

Thanks. Im going to pull the interconnector board out later today and check for cold solder joints. Also, I did notice one of the 3 pin connector on the interconnector board seemed to conect very loosely.

#7 10 years ago
Quoted from smersh:

seafood wheel just twitches will not turn

Quoted from smersh:

Also the motor seems to bind when energized

because of these 2 observations, I would say 12 volt and Gnd is present on the stepper-motor-driver-pcb.
I would first check data A and B input on this board and follow these wires to other board.

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#8 10 years ago

UPDATE. The 5 tagets are fixed, it was the 3 pin connector on the interconnector board. Thanks folks

I'm going now to trace the wires back on the stepper motor to see if I can get it to spin.... Zaza... Thanks for the tip...

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