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Hey guys, fairly new to the pinball world. I inherited my Cyclone pinball machine from my father-in-law. I recently took all the plastics off and cleaned the machine and put down some wax. I am now getting an Adjust Switch 57 error message as well as an Adjust Switch 58. I assume these are the flipper switches as the machine also wont allow me to enter initials if you get a high score or switch the gates at the top of the play field. Any help would be appreciated.
Quoted from jaytrem:Welcome to the club! You are correct, those switches are the right and left "flipper lane change" switches. Probably a good idea to download the manual if you don't have it....
https://www.ipdb.org/files/617/Williams_1988_Cyclone_Manual_Schematics.pdf
See page 30 for the switch matrix and test/diagnostics. Were they working before you worked on the machine?
I know before I got the machine he was having issues with the gates at the top but I am not sure about the initials part. I do have the manual, I will take a look at it. Thanks for the help!!
Quoted from jaytrem:This is what things should look like by your flipper coils....
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The switches that are open are the ones you should be checking. Make sure they're open when the flipper is down and that they close when the flipper is up. Also make sure wires and diodes are still attached.
Thanks for the pictures. That really helped me understand what I should be looking at. From what I can see, it looks like they are open when the flippers are down and do close when the flippers are up. I gently tugged on all the wires and they all seem to be attached tightly. Could the switches contacts just need cleaned?
Quoted from jaytrem:Hmmm, are you slingshots and jet bumper all firing and scoring? They're all in the same column in the switch matrix with the lane change. You can just take a dollar bill and run it through the switch while you hold it closed. You don't want to do any hard core cleaning or filing on those switches. Seems suspicious that both would be not working due to them being dirty.
Everything else seems to be working fine. I took a business card and ran that between the switches. That didnt seem to do anything. Might just be something I will have to wait and have someone with more experience come to my house and look at once all this craziness is all done. Thanks for all your help!!
Quoted from jaytrem:No problem, glad to at least try to help. One last easy thing you can try is reseating the connectors on the MPU. That's all I had to do to get some of the lights working on my Comet a little while ago. You would be looking for 1J8 and 1J10, they should be on the opposite side of the batteries. While you're at it just take a look at the wires there and make sure nothing is suspicious. If that doesn't fix the problem you are indeed getting into deeper stuff.
Since I mentioned batteries, be sure to change them often if they're still on the board. If they did leak already, that could cause lots of issues. Options to get the batteries off the board are NVRAM (no more batteries) or out in a remote holder so they're away from all the boards.
Thanks, I had someone put a NVRAM on my board a few weeks ago so I had both of those connectors off when I took the board off. I appreciate the help. If I figure it out or have someone out to fix it, Ill let you know what it was. At least I can still play it with this issue and it just isnt sitting there collecting dust.
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