(Topic ID: 226787)

Bally Powerplay fires the wrong solenoids

By Pk98

5 years ago



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  • 4 posts
  • 2 Pinsiders participating
  • Latest reply 5 years ago by Quench
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#1 5 years ago

Some friends kids were having fun on the machine for a while,
when they came over to say the ball got stuck.
Having a look it was in the kickout hole and wouldn't leave.
Restarted the pin and noticed it was "playing" the startup tune on the bumpers instead of the chimes.

The machine played fine for the last years so trying to figure out what is causing this now.
I took a look at the mpu it still boots up with 7 flashes
test mode: Lights all ok, displays all ok, switch test gives a 0
but the solenoid test shows the following coils activated:

Self test #..Should fire................Does fire
1...............Outhole kicker...........Outhole kicker
2...............Knocker....................RIGHT SLINGSHOT
3...............Tophole saucer..........0
4...............Post down................LEFT THUMPER
5...............Chime 10.................RIGHT THUMPER
6...............Chime 100...............BOTTEM THUMPER
7...............Chime 1000.............LEFT SLINGSHOT
8...............Chime Extra.............LEFT DROP TARGET
9...............Left thumper bumper........Left thumper bumper
10.............Right thumper bumper......Right thumper bumper
11.............Bottom thumper bumper..Bottom thumper bumper
12.............Left drop target........Left drop target
13.............Right drop target......Right drop target
14.............Left slingshot............Left slingshot
15.............Right slingshot..........Right slingshot
16.............Post up....................0
17.............Coin lockout door.....Coin lockout door
18.............K1 relay...................K1 relay

Anyone ever had this occur before? And could give a pointer on where to start to look.
Thanks to all!

#2 5 years ago

It looks like you have a bad connection between the MPU board and Solenoid Driver Board on the "Momentary Solenoid Select PB3" signal.

It is a Red-White wire that goes from the MPU board at connector J4 pin 1 and goes to the Solenoid Driver Board at connector J4 pin 3. One of these connections on either end of this wire is not making good contact.

#3 5 years ago

Quench you are brilliant!

I wiggled the red and white wire on the two ends and gave it a go.
Machine started up perfectly again.
Tomorrow i'll repin these anyway to make sure they stay fine.
Big thanks for the fast fix!

#4 5 years ago

Great! It saves a lot of time when people post detailed information about their fault

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