My wife won Rock in a raffle late last year (still hard to believe!). The group of guys who maintained machines at the bar took great care of it, but mentioned that it had power cycled once or twice on them in the past.

I was playing it a few days ago and the machine cycled twice in a row and then a rather strong electrical burning smell was present.
Our machine is plugged into a power strip w/ nothing else plugged in, but I was wondering if maybe the game is surging because of how we have it plugged in?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks zacaj!
I will step through these post back later

Just gave all the boards in the backbox a serious look over and they were alright. Going to check in the cabinet now.

Checking 5V power supply is actually putting out 5Vs, and then using this awesome vid to do the ground mods (which seem like a near necessity for System80s)

Thanks again

ForceFlow Indeed the burning smell was from a coil locking on.

Also @zacaj, sounds like you've seen this before. Do you have a Gottlieb Sys80 game this happened to you on? (Also can I get an amen for the Surf N' Safari )

zacaj YeOldPinPlayer ForceFlow So i'm in the middle of the Rock ground mod - and have a wiring question. Heard/read a few different things at this point, but the bigger gauge wire I got to twist w/ the Rock wiring is copper and for the the life of me have not found silver wire anywhere. I want to match it w/ what Rock has, but thought i'd ask if if it's safe to combine copper/silver wiring?

My instinct tells me no, but I've never done this before so \(o_o)/