Hi Pinside,
Hoping you can help me out with this one. I have a Gottlieb Soccer (2 player '75) that I am trying to get ready for MGC and it is having issues resetting player 1's 10s and sometimes now the 100s score reels to 0 when starting a new game. Here are the symptoms and what I observed happening:
The initial problem is/was that player 1's 10 reel never moved from the number from the previous game when restarting a new game. The 10k, 1k, and 100 move back to 0 but nothing out of the 10s. The score motor will keep on turning and the "F" relay (described as the "00-90 unit relay" on the schematic) in the backbox will chatter sometimes spinning the 2 arms around the contacts on the circuit board, sometimes not, but it always makes it around just not smoothly. I can manually move the 10s reel back to 0 and the game will start. Everything works fine and scores properly. Start a new game and repeat the issue.
I noticed that the metal bracket with the plastic hook at the end of it in the "F" relay wasn't seated properly. I took the spring off it and pulled it out. I cleaned everything up a bit and put it back together.
I turned the power back on and it actually reset the 10s to 0, everything looked good and I played a few games without any issues. Thought I had the issue solved. But after a few games the 100s reel would move a few digits and stop, not at 0, but the 10s would reset to 0 and a new game would start with the 100s not zeroed.
I took the "F" relay out and reseated everything in it again. Now I am back to the original player 1 10s problem again. I've never had any issues what so ever with player 2's score resetting to 0 after player 1 is zeroed out. Sometimes if i leave the machine running (score motor and "F" relay chattering) for a while the 10s will kick in and reset to 0, most of the time not though.
Any ideas on what this might be? Thanks in advance. Pinside rocks!
Thanks,
Brent