Hello everyone!

I recently acquired a 77 Lucky Hand I’ve been working to bring back to playing condition. This is my first pin, so I’m in a bit of information overload!

I just put in my first PBR order, so still waiting on the schematics, but figured maybe someone here had some ideas.

My current issue I can’t solve:

Gameplay starts great, the start sequence seems to be firing properly. I typically can play for a few minutes, but then I notice my scoring is no longer incrementing.

When this happens, I still get chimes, and I see my back switches (N-M-etc) all engaging when a roll over/target is hit. I’ve gone through and checked to make sure no playfield targets were sticking (can manually active all), and I cleaned my decagon scoring wheels (all move smoothly and can increment properly).

I do see my “score wheel” (I think it’s called”) still rotates when I manually trip targets.

So I’m a bit stuck on what to check! Any other relays? I would think the N,M and thousands (can’t recall its letter) would be triggering the scoring wheel solenoid to turn...if I start a fresh game manually triggering these makes the decagon wheel move.

I’m at a bit of a loss! Game still progresses fine (add a balls, drop targets, chimes)...just no scores randomly. If I drop in fresh credits, my wheels properly reset and scoring comes back for a while. Happens randomly, can’t seem to replicate a pattern, or score.

Cheers!!

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Relay R was the culprit, thanks for the information and explaining what it does. There’s so much to learn! I don’t have my gator clips yet (on order from Amazon), but I did give her a nice cleaning. She’s working nicely again, was able to get a solid few games in.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply- there wasn’t anything consistent, I tried every which combination I could think of!

Good to know about 4a too, I’ll look at that in the future if it comes back.

As of now, I think my R relay was acting up. After a bit of cleaning/fresh file game scoring stays on until I run out of balls. Even tried manually racking up the score and it held nicely

Only things left on my list are to clean my center pop/rebuild (it’s a slow return up) and rebuild the flippers once my PBR order comes in. Knock on wood!

Is it normal to hear “we are the champions” playing every time a bug is fixed?