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Help with a Stern Dracula problem

By tombags

2 years ago



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    #2 2 years ago
    Quoted from tombags:

    Hello, I am working on a Stern Dracula and the boards were toast so I replace all 4 of them with Alltek boards. After replacing the boards the lights, solenoids, displays all worked. After sitting for a short time, the displays, lights still work however the solenoids stopped working with the exception of the knocker, coin lockout. I measured the voltages and they are all there, I checked the fuses out of circuit with a meter and they all fine. I have a spare Alltek MPU and put it in and still no solenoids or flippers. The new driver board does not show any errors. The switches are scoring correctly just the solenoids, flippers are not working. Any idea where I should look? Thanks in advance for any help.

    Did you check the playfield fuse, or just the fuses at the power board?

    #4 2 years ago
    Quoted from tombags:

    Yes I checked the playfield fuses and the board fuses. When the coil is engaged it makes a noise but doesn't pull in.

    You didn’t by chance change out the rectifier board? The replacement ones pin outs are off by one. A couple of times I have been off by a pin and was trying to drive the flippers with the wrong voltage.

    I had a similar problem when I did my Trident restore and swapped the rectifier board and redid the connectors.
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/trident-2020-restoration-/page/2#post-6421555

    #5 2 years ago

    Were you able to figure it out? I'm curious what the solution was.

    #9 2 years ago
    Quoted from tombags:

    Problem solve, and bigguybbr was correct, the rectifier board is one pin off. I measured the voltage at the pins of J1 on the Alltek board and matched them up with the wires according to the schematics and all the coils and lights function correctly. Thanks to bigguybbr for the help. Now on to the next probem, no sound from the SB-100.

    Glad you were able to learn from my mistake

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