Cleveland, OH
This monopoly will be the death of me. It keeps developing odd solonoid behaviors. Originally, it was with the 20v solonoids. They'd pulse very weakly - weakly enough that the electric company couldn't kick out. They'd behave fine in test mode, but during the game they'd just barely fire. We brought it in from the field. I changed out the driver board, the solonoid, the ROM, the transformer...everything I could think of. Didn't fix the problem. I just gave up and started stealing parts from it.
I stole both boards for other games, and the CPU board seemed to be messed up. So I thought I'd try getting it working again. Put back the parts I stole, put in a brand-spankin'-new CPU board, a known working driver board, and turned her on. Original prblem gone (yay!). New problem arises. The Chance kickout solonoid now won't kick out properly. Similar symptoms. I can literally put a ball into it during play, and watch it struggle and not kick it out, then hit the test mode button, and watch it kick the ball like a mule. What the heck is going on? If it were a code issue, other people would have this problem. If it were a transistor, wiring, or solonoid fault, it wouldn't be able to kick during test mode. I've tried turning off both the bank, motor, and motor relay. No dice. Any ideas, anyone?
