(Topic ID: 321865)

Gottlieb System 1 Cleopatra Blows Display Fuse after ~6 hours

By Knxwledge

1 year ago



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#1 1 year ago

Got a Cleo that works fine, displays all look bright, power supply rebuilt, most connectors repinned, ground mods done. Been leaving it on all day to burn-in-test it, and consistently, after about 6 hours or so, the display fuse blows. Put another one in right away and itll work fine for another 6 hours. Any ideas? Im thinking of testing the game with all the displays unplugged, see the results, then plug one display in, see the results, etc etc.

#2 1 year ago

Have you checked the display voltages, score displays 60V and credit/ball display 42V ?

#3 1 year ago
Quoted from Tuukka:

Have you checked the display voltages, score displays 60V and credit/ball display 42V ?

Yeah theyre almost exactly on the money, 60v and 42.5v. This is on cold boot

#4 1 year ago

One of factory displays may be slowly taking out the fuse. Disconnect players 3 and 4 and let it run for a while. If no blow, add one display at a time to see which one might be causing the fuse to blow. Displays that show any issue at all, dimmer than the others, one rough digit, whatever, are going to be your likely suspects.

#5 1 year ago
Quoted from phishrace:

One of factory displays may be slowly taking out the fuse. Disconnect players 3 and 4 and let it run for a while. If no blow, add one display at a time to see which one might be causing the fuse to blow. Displays that show any issue at all, dimmer than the others, one rough digit, whatever, are going to be your likely suspects.

All of them look good, nothing wonky. Gonna try what you suggested with unplugging 3 and 4, see if the fuse blows

1 week later
#6 1 year ago

Fiddle-fucked around with plugging/unplugging displays, didnt really see any pattern, didn't get better. Repinned one of the MPU connectors for the display logic, then the fuse started blowing every 30 mins or so. Fiddle-fucked with it for a bit, didn't get anywhere. Added the fuses to protect the small transformer. Put a new Gulf pinball power supply in it, now the fuse blows instantly. I'm gonna change the two bridges in the bottom of the cabinet, as they were changed when I got them but it's kind of a hackjob. Can't think of anything else to do at this point besides just throwing the old displays in the fucking dumpster.

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