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Couple Remaining Wizard! Issues

By JRC6000

2 years ago



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#1 2 years ago

Hey Folks,

I'm bringing a Wizard! back to life and almost have it done. I have two remining issues that I thought I'd get some advice on. They are:

1. There is an extra 1,000 bonus each time the ball drains. If the bonus is 1,000, it'll award 2,000. If 7,000, it'll award 8,000, etc. There is something causing one extra bonus pulse, but I can't figure out what. Any ideas?

2. Occasionally an extra player is activated when the credit button is pushed. It doesn't happen every time, so I imagine there is some switch that is a little too close but not close enough to trigger every time. For an example, I had the following sequence: button, P1, button, P2, button, P3,P4. Other sequences also. But often the credit button works fine and I can push to a P3 game without extras. I'm thinking a switch gap somewhere needs to be widened just a little...but certainly could be wrong.

I greatly appreciate any thoughts on these two items. Thanks in advance.

#4 2 years ago

Thanks MarkG and @howardr. I did some hard looking at the machine last night and have these notes from your questions:

1. The bonus unit seems to step up and down correctly when manually operated. The zero switch definitely opens at the bottom as it should then pulse up to 1,000 to start a new ball. What I noticed after watching closely over and over again, was that the first pulse down is the double. It seems to take two pulses for the first number to move. All of the teeth on the gear look good as do all of the springs. What's curious about this is that it happens no matter what number it starts on (same thing for double bonus). Is there something different about the first pulse than all the others? I'm wondering if maybe a different switch on the score motor initiates the first pulse then another continues the countdown. IF that is the case, maybe that first switch isn't adjusted close enough. Any clues here?

2. The score motor definitely keeps turning when the extra players are added. So maybe something isn't dropping out as it should? Still occasional. When I tested last night. The players stepped up correctly a few times. Then I pressed the credit button once and it went all the way to player 4. The score motor kept spinning.

#6 2 years ago

Thanks guys. Turns out #1 was a mechanical issue. I worked out #2 by cleaning out the motor rotor and axel as MarkG described in the link above.

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