Get out your schematic, find out what else is connected to the wires the stand-up target uses. There is a short somewhere. Use your multimeter to find it.

The switch is probably related to a relay which would run on the 25V circuit; as stated, you need to schematic to diagnose (unless there is a clearly burnt coil somewhere).

If that lamp socket lead is making contact with your target mounting bracket it will blow a fuse. Looks very close in the picture.

And definitely by a cheap circuit breaker and some alligator clips. I like to clip the wires to it to both ends of the fuse holder. It will save you a lot of fuses and aggravation till you locate what’s causing the short.

Is it me or is that an unusual switch for a stand-up?

On my Bank Shot, the #8-#14 stand-up is a single N.O. switch with the red+wh wires both running to the rear blade and an or+red to the target blade.

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Must be a different rule set for lighting the lower pop bumper on Bank Shot than Sure Shot would be my guess.

My Sure Shot switches look like the OP’s.

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I think I have had the exact same issue on my Sure Shot. It seems like the ball ejects into the shooter lane before the score reels completely reset, therefore the Ball Count Unit does not step up to Ball 1, so you have to place it back into the outhole again and it steps up to ball 1 and it plays correctly.

On mine it doesn’t do that every time but more than half the time. Sometimes the score reels reset more quickly and it works fine. I was just getting ready to break out the schematics to see if I can figure it out. Maybe someone else will weigh in.

I think the tilt light is supposed to be on when you first power on the machine. The tilt light being on or off depends on the state of the H relay. The schematic is drawn with a game started and the machine unplugged, so the H relay switch here is the state it's in when the H coil is unpowered.

Sure Shot Tilt light (resized).JPGWhen you power on the machine, but haven't started a game, the switches on the AX relay as shown on the schematic. So as you can see in the snippet below, the H relay will not be powered until you start a game and AX relay changes state while the reset process is happening, providing a path to power on the H relay.

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So don't worry about it.

Yes tilt light is normally on, on power up.

Hey seawolf - if your ball is being kicked out too early, it looks like the Motor 4C switch should be looked at. There are only 2 switches involved in energizing the Ball Return relay - a switch on the O relay and the Motor 4C switch. Look at it closely, maybe widen the gap a bit, make sure the switch dog is in the correct position.

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Ah, thanks paulace I'll look at 4c tonight. It’s a minor inconvenience but it sucks when you nail the 1 Ball rollover on the first plunger shot only to see that the Ball Count Unit didn’t advance to ball 1.

I had some weirdness with a Quick Draw once where the trough switch was closing too early, causing some problems. I widened the trough switch so that it just made contact when the ball passed over it....fixed that problem. Just a thought.