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Bally driver board repair issue

By Ballypalooza

2 years ago


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    #2 2 years ago

    Can you post some pictures of this board - let's see what you're dealing with. Maybe something peculiar will stand out.

    For all coils to lock on at power-up you're looking at multiple failures.

    Disconnect connectors J1, J2, and J5 from the solenoid driver board. If your knocker is in the head, disconnect it too. This will isolate all solenoids from the driver board.

    Measure the following locations on the solenoid driver board - these are the circuit drive for the flipper enable relay. In attract mode the relay should be off. Let us know what you measure.

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    #4 2 years ago
    Quoted from Ballypalooza:

    Hope this makes sense.

    Sure does.
    The readings you have on U4 indicate it's bad. If you're familiar reading the schematics, U4 is a CA3081 transistor array chip that simply contains seven transistors.
    U4 pin 3 is the base of a transistor. It must never go above 0.9 volts. Your reading was 5 volts indicating that pin has internally gone open circuit. This results in that transistor being unable to switch off the flipper enable relay.

    When the transistor arrays fail, it's usually just a single transistor failure in the chip. For every single coil to lock on means there was some catastrophic event to damage all the transistors in the arrays, maybe the solenoid voltage got shorted to the 5V logic supply.

    These are all the base pins of the three transistor array chips on the board. Any pins that measure higher than 0.9 volts means that chip is bad.

    U1 pin 3
    U1 pin 6
    U1 pin 8
    U1 pin 10
    U1 pin 11
    U1 pin 13
    U1 pin 16

    U3 pin 3
    U3 pin 6
    U3 pin 8
    U3 pin 10
    U3 pin 11
    U3 pin 13
    U3 pin 16

    U4 pin 3 <--- You already measured this one as bad
    U4 pin 6
    U4 pin 8
    U4 pin 10
    U4 pin 11
    U4 pin 13
    U4 pin 16

    #9 2 years ago

    Your flipper enable relay voltages all look good now.

    Time to check the voltages on all those other pins I mentioned that control all the other coils.

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