Wild Wild West
Gottlieb, 1969I searched this forum first to see if I could find a schematic posted from a previous post, but no luck.
Upon turning on the game, the 1amp fuse in the cabinet is blowing. I do not have a schematic for the game, so was hoping someone who does could find what is linked to this circuit and post here for me. I pic of the circuit would be better! The game is at a friends house so reply's of my progress may be tardy! Thanks in advance!
Upon your limited description I would look for a short in the general illumination, either a trace or a bad socket(s).
The first thing to do is to buy a schematic. You can't expect to work on a game without one. http://www.pbresource.com/
Quoted from phil-lee:Upon your limited description I would look for a short in the general illumination, either a trace or a bad socket(s).
Thats what I was curious about, what that circuit is involved in. So all the GI works as well as the pops. What doesn't work is the two drains '100 points when lit' light. We disconnected the two lead wires(not the common) and the fuse still blows. So its still possible that the wire from those sockets to the fuse block may be grounded as well? May just need to buy the schematic, that light alternately lights between each other, so the gremlin could be where that alternation takes place. Just don't know which stack.
Apart from buying a schematic, I would also buy a few circuit breakers of 1, 5, and 10 amp values and solder their legs onto some blown fuses. Then you can at least test and look for your fault without having to keep replacing fuses.
Quoted from Vintage-Pinball:Apart from buying a schematic, I would also buy a few circuit breakers of 1, 5, and 10 amp values and solder their legs onto some blown fuses. Then you can at least test and look for your fault without having to keep replacing fuses.
http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=EM_Repair#Electrical_short_troubleshooting_Fuse_helper
Quoted from Cash_Riprock:Did you change any bulbs or work on anything prior to this problem?
No, I came into this after the fact. But was told all bulbs were replaced and they looked it.
I love the CB trick, I use it in all my EM's. Thanks for the heads up though, Ill make one to assist in tackle this gremlin.
Quoted from ibis:No, I came into this after the fact. But was told all bulbs were replaced and they looked it.
I love the CB trick, I use it in all my EM's. Thanks for the heads up though, Ill make one to assist in tackle this gremlin.
Since all bulbs replaced, you could look for a bent tab touching causing a short...unless you know that after bulbs were replaced it did work. CB will save in fuses for sure. You could take out all bulbs and one by one replace till you find the culprit.
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