Hello all,

I just recently acquired a Bally Space Time, and everything seemed to be working fine with the machine until I manually reset the credit counter and fired it up.

When pressing the credit button, the score reels go through their reset sequence, but for every tick, the knocker also activates and a credit is added to the machine. Same thing also happens when scoring 5000 point values; a credit is added along with a knock for every tick (not exactly sure about lower values, but the 100 doesn't seem to do it).

I have a feeling the problem is localized to the score motor, since I think it also controls the score reel reset. Before I go in and start trying to mess with things, I wanted to get some guidance from you guys to see what the potential problem might be.

The person I bought it from mentioned that a previous owner wired it for free play. Maybe his rewiring did this?

I would really appreciate any direction on how to fix this. I want to revert everything on the machine back to the original coin-op configuration.

Thank you.

Thanks Mark,

I just manually stepped it down to 1 credit; it was sitting at its max of 25 credits.
Good to know the knocker is behaving normally.

So I did some investigation, and it seems like it's not the 1000 point relay or any point relays after all; it's the collect tunnel value that activates it.
Any time I press a collect tunnel switch it consistently adds 6 credits regardless of what the tunnel value actually is. It also adds 6 credits when cycling between players.

It seems like every revolution of the score motor is adding 6 credits no matter what.

Kevin

I think I found the culprit. There's a bit of solder shorting one of the switches on the 2nd coin chute relay. I'll try removing it later and seeing if the problem goes away.

Thanks Mark!
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