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Data East Star Wars R2D2 & Death Star not rotating?

By RestonVA

4 years ago


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#8 4 years ago
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.

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#12 4 years ago
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.

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#14 4 years ago
Quoted from RestonVA:

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Sorry. Brain fart. www.pinballcode.com

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#16 3 years ago
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.

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