Trying to help a neighbor here on Emerald Isle, NC. Unfortunately, I have zero experience with this era of games. Manual does not seem accurate. No boards match.

Any help diagnosing the problem would be helpful. Thanks.

Dan

Thanks Bill.

Zacaj, found many inaccuracies in manuals over twenty years of collecting. For example, his manual designates flipper connections on a P board not what is the J driver board.

BK, thanks for the reply, obviously no good deed goes unpunished. Have done nothing since I dont own the game and do not want to work on it since nothing has made sense to me. For example, does this system have flipper RAM? I thought I read it does
No idea about that. If you are part of the solution, happy to have your help.

Smitty, no, seems to be an original. Thanks.

Dan

Lloyd, thanks. Had looked at that and of course section 4.10 Flippers was empty!

Zacaj, I will take a pic of the manual and the boards and post them so you can see what I may be misinterpreting.

Travis, yes, rom, not ram. Typo.

Zacaj,

Thanks for the explanations. Very helpful.

It is just the right side. Gonna try and grab some time with the game today. Will report back.

Dan

Yes, I did. Thx, Lloyd

Finally got the game in order.

Smitty, you were right. The game is a BK2K. When I first looked at it, I guess I was not at my best it being a little over a month since having had a major "widows maker" heart attack on June 8. Missed some details when I first looked at the game.

It was a process of step by step, which seemed be uncovering next weakest link in the chain once one got fixed.

Cleaned and gapped the cabinet and EOS switches as suggested, which brought life back to the game.

Flipper flutter developed, and blue spark evident on lug where hold coil attaches. Resoldered the wire and diode, reinstalled but still wasn't right. Clipped the diodes and they tested .8 each, above the .4 to .6 range, so I just replaced the coil.

Game would play fine for twenty minutes or even longer and F5 fuse would still blow intermittently.

Inspected the right upper flipper and found that there was no heat shrink tubing on the arm of the pawl that opens the EOS switch. Wrapped the arm of the pawl well with electrical tape (short term fix I know until rebuild kits installed), and the game seems to behave. Gonna pick up some 2A slo blo fuses today at a parts house nearby where I have Cardio rehab, and the game should be set.

Until the next link in the chain reveals itself.

Played it a long time yesterday with no blown fuses, cleaned it up as best I could without fully shopping it and my neighbor has a fully working game now and was very appreciative. He has helped me over the last years with issues of our home here in NC where we are absent, and it was good to be able to bless him in a unique way. Next summer, I will fully shop it for him.

Thanks to those who helped.

Dan