Jungle Princess
Gottlieb, 1977Machine resets perfect all reels go to 0 and everything resets but the ball doesn't kick out
If I manually push it to the shooter lane the trough switch is working
Once the ball leaves the playing field it gives you your bonus point but doesn/t kick the ball back to the shooter lane
the kicker works
checked AX BX O and P nothing out of place all switches are good
I jumped power to the yellow and red on the O and the ball eject relay fires fine
someone help me please?
Check the bonus stepper unit, mounted on the underside of the PF. There should be a switch on that unit that closes to enable the ball return when the bonus count goes to zero. If that switch isn't making good contact, you will get the problem you are seeing.
- TimMe
If you push in the O relay by hand, does it lock itself on, run the score motor, and fire the ball return kicker?
OK - What I was asking was, does the O relay coil itself energize and lock on, or does the relay drop open as soon as you stop pushing on it with your finger?
OK, that's a good place to look next.
First, try jumpering power directly to the non-black-wire solder lug of the O relay coil and see if you can manually energize it. This will tell you if the coil itself is good.
If the coil is good, and you have the schematic, next you can check the switches in the circuit to the O relay coil and see if any N.C. switch is not making good contact. This would be a switch in the circuit after the O relay lock-in, so that narrows things down.
I don't have a schematic for your game, but on GTB games of this era, usually there is an NC switch on the AX relay and also on the game over relay that shut off all power to the O relay.
- TimMe
went thru all the motor switches and they are fine
then I went back to Q and tweaked it and now when you manually push in O the score motor turns and the kicker firres
but the O relay doesn't lock in ... so I' m fixing to go back thru AX again
solved I followed the start sequence in the user manual step by step and check every switch at every step tiln I finally traced the problem
problem 1 was the q relay a NC switch looked close but wasn't
problem 2 was the AX I traced the O to the AX and it said the slate with a green trace I tweak that and it worked
HOOOORAAAAH
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