(Topic ID: 87286)

Demo Man Switch Column Stuck Open

By Smurrill1

10 years ago



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  • Latest reply 10 years ago by markmon
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#1 10 years ago

So I bought a Demo Man not too long ago. Shopped it and in the process wound up having to buy a replacement Rottendog CPU board. After putting everything back together the game worked flawlessly for about 4-5 hours of play. Then the entire column of green-black switches stopped working. This column contains rollovers, ramp switches, and 3 standups (no optos involved). In test mode the switches are all stuck open and do not respond to closing them manually. The entire column has continuity and is receiving its 12 volts along the whole column when the machine is turned on. The test mode says switch error on all of the switches on the column even when the molex connector with all the switch columns is removed from the cpu board (in which case it says check fuse 14 and 15 and then proceeds to list a switch error on all the same switches in the exact same way). I intend to replace all the microswitches and the standups in the machine anyway, so if an old corroded microswitch or standup is the problem those will be replaced. Perhaps one of the chips on the rottendog board is bad? Its odd though that the machine would work perfectly for a few hours and then without prompting have a whole column stop working. Thanks in advance for any help

Spencer

#2 10 years ago

morning bump

#3 10 years ago

Go to switch edge test, while there, pull the switch row and col connectors fm the board, and test the col and row pins by using a jumper wire. If you can activate the col this way then issue is wiring. If not, it's your board. Likely the u20 chip. See pinwiki for details on how to jump the wire as I described.

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