Data East Star Wars R2D2 &amp; Death Star not rotating?

Thanks Paul, I moved them carefully by hand while the game is on and seem to move fine. But they don't spin by themselves.

#4 4 years ago

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pinmike

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Bossier City, LA

13y 56,600 5,368

Do they work properly in the test menus?

#5 4 years ago

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RestonVA

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Quoted from pinmike:
Do they work properly in the test menus?

I don't think there is a specific test for them, but I did try burn in mode, and they don't move during burn in.

#6 4 years ago

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pinmike

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Bossier City, LA

13y 56,600 5,368

OP
Quoted from RestonVA:
I don't think there is a specific test for them, but I did try burn in mode, and they don't move during burn in.

I really don’t know if there is or not but how about trying a factory reset

#7 4 years ago

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pinmike

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Bossier City, LA

13y 56,600 5,368

Are they opto controlled?

#8 4 years ago

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PinMonk

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Quoted from RestonVA:
I don't think there is a specific test for them, but I did try burn in mode, and they don't move during burn in.

There's a motor test for the death star, I think it's under the coil section. You can step through each in the diagnostics. More than likely the motor's gears are all stripped out or the motor's dead. Since you've seen both work occasionally, this seems most likely. If they were totally dead, I'd say check the transistor Q24 which controls the death star motor.

Could also be an intermittently working relay.

#9 4 years ago

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chad

Game Guy

11y 140K 15,202 9 4

Cold solder joints on the relay board?

#10 4 years ago

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Astill

Pinballrom

Collingwood, ON

11y 74,300 822 18

chad is right , either that or both motors are bad , which does happen.

1 week later

#11 4 years ago

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RestonVA

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I did reflow both relay boards and they work now, thank you all!!!

They start moving after the first time R2D2 bobs; the Death Star stutters in the beginning and after a few seconds changes direction and after that keeps rotating normally.
Could that have to do with my ROM? it is very old: USA CPU 1.02

I got a 1.07 file from a shady source, are these the correct checksums?
CRC32 1a801b7e
MD5 b98aa0b1b9b163f98d1a20da382a692a
SHA1 fef567126dff87a2cb31401b029c3050438072b7

#12 4 years ago

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PinMonk

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Quoted from RestonVA:
I did reflow both relay boards and they work now, thank you all!!!
They start moving after the first time R2D2 bobs; the Death Star stutters in the beginning and after a few seconds changes direction and after that keeps rotating normally.
Could that have to do with my ROM? it is very old: USA CPU 1.02
I got a 1.07 file from a shady source, are these the correct checksums?
CRC32 1a801b7e
MD5 b98aa0b1b9b163f98d1a20da382a692a
SHA1 fef567126dff87a2cb31401b029c3050438072b7

If you're not sure about it, just get it from pinballcode.com and patch your own so you're 100% sure.

#13 4 years ago

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RestonVA

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#14 4 years ago

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PinMonk

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Quoted from RestonVA:
www.pinballroms.com is "temporarily" offline since 9/26/2017

Sorry. Brain fart. www.pinballcode.com

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#15 3 years ago

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Ed-g-hog

Inactive member

Quoted from chad:
Cold solder joints on the relay board?

Hi Chad are these the 2 small relay boards under the mid play field ?

Both my r2 and Death Star stopped although both working a couple of weeks ago and I swear I see r2 move slightly every now and again

#16 3 years ago

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PinMonk

Quoted from Ed-g-hog:
Hi Chad are these the 2 small relay boards under the mid play field ?
Both my r2 and Death Star stopped although both working a couple of weeks ago and I swear I see r2 move slightly every now and again

If you turn them on in test and check the voltage at the motor connectors and it has voltage, then you likely have one or two bad motors. It's pretty common that they stop turning on that machine.

#17 3 years ago

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Ed-g-hog

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Quoted from PinMonk:
If you turn them on in test and check the voltage at the motor connectors and it has voltage, then you likely have one or two bad motors. It's pretty common that they stop turning on that machine.

Apologies for being ignorant...how do I turn on within test ??? I did go into the coils menu and it cycles the coils, can I pick which to switch on ???

#18 3 years ago

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pinzrfun

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Belleville, MI

11y 90,300 4,310 20

The grease inside those motors has solidified on a lot of these older games - my Death Star only turns if I give it a little nudge. Unfortunately the motors are enclosed, but they can be cut open and cleaned up. I think Marco carries them too, if you aren't lucky enough to just re-flow the relay board -

#19 3 years ago

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Ed-g-hog

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Just switched the machine on and both R2 and death star rotating and then they stop so I will try the relay board and have now found a picture from a previous post showing where it is. There is a second relay board under the playfield, does anyone know what that one is for ??

#20 3 years ago

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robertg130

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Bayamon

8y 42,300 545 17

I’m the test menu under coils,are a test for both the R2 and Death Star rotation

#21 3 years ago

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Ed-g-hog

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