Okay, so I thought Id fixed my Sea Ray earlier. Had an issue with stuck 100 pt relay again, which i managed to fix earlier today. It was a stuck mushroom bumper switch. Made it Normally Open again, and everything worked. perfectly. For 3-4 games. Then suddenly, in the middle of the game...
Everything happened at once!!
Suddenly the score reels started turning around crazy, the bonus collect started constantly collecting, and light just on and off and something got stuck in the back, probably a relay..just heard the sound. I was so demotivated since I finally thought I had gotten it into a good state, so have to look into it some other day.
Just thought Id ask if anyone know what could cause a sudden reaction like this, it was like the whole game suffered an epileptic seizure?
A short?
A sidenote:
When I lifted the playfield up and to the front, the wire assembly to the jones plug seemed to tear loose a coil spring for one of the relays in the back of the bottom of the cabinet.
It disappeared somewhere, but since another relay next to it seemed to work without the spring feather, i thought Id try without. And the game worked for some games before all hell broke loose. I could not see it lying across any relay switches etc, but theoretically, if the spring fell into the score motor switch stack or similar, could that create this sort of erratic behavior?
