HI all I am new to this club as I am new to owning a Sys 1 Genie. I am having 2 main problems. So first off when I turn the game on sometimes it does now fully turn off and then after a few off and ons it will fully come on. My second and most frustrating problem is my damn drop targets. When I have the 2A fuse under the playfield in, The drops will not come up, sometimes the front 4 will but then the fuse blows. If I manually put them up and turn the game on then knock them down, the score perfectly but will not come back up. Now I do not know how bad of an idea this was but I was told that SOMETIMES you can put a 2.5A or even a 3A. I put a 2.5A in and all the drops came up and the back ones worked almost perfectly but the front 4 were locked up so the coil was locked I am assuming. Any help would be fantastic and thanks in advance. By the way I suck at reading the switch matrix, since I am relatively new but have been doing a ton of research and watch videos etc. These are pretty much the only 2 things I have left to have the game working 100% (I did do the ground mods on all 3 boards)

Has anyone had any power issues with their system 1? Mine will turn on and fully play but it sometimes takes 3-5 On/Off switch button presses.

I do get some lights and back glass lights to come on when it doesn’t boot fully. It’s never fully dead when I turn it on

Ok... I’ve been posting a ton about my dumb genie... so I have the game working perfectly for about 5-8 games and then the 2amp fuse blows. WTF

It says slow blow and I have a slow blow in there

Not sure what you mean. There’s 7 fuses on the bottom panel and 1 underside of the playfield and it’s that one.

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I do

Right into a huge bundle and I printed the manual so maybe I don’t have the full thing but I’ll look now for color code numbers

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Yes the drops don’t reset and I’m thinking it’s connected more to the 4 bank of drops. I’ll put a 2A fuse in and they’ll all work great and reset then after about 5-10 games it’ll blow

I put a 2.5 amp in the holder to see what happened a while ago and the coil locked on and didn’t unlock til I turned the game of the coil has never locked on with a 2 A in it and after about 5 games of the machine working great the machine doesn’t turn on consistently but eventually will play and then a few games after it’ll blow the fuse

I just put a 2.5 A in and it’s not locking on now... I’m leaving the game on a while to see what happens. If this was the problem I’m going to be happy yet pissed off. I’ll keep you posted and thanks!!

Not that I know of cause I tested the bumpers nd rest of the game switches with out that fuse in and the 3 bumpers worked

So I put a 2.5 A in I’ve left the game on and it’s not locking on and the banks are working well and no blown fuse yet. The only problem I’m seeing now with the 2.5 A in is it might take 3-5 times to turn on fully. If it doesn’t I’ll hear some strange noises and the slam tilt or knocker, knocks but it turns after a few on and offs and and works great so far. I’m fine with having to click it on a few times as long as it consistently works

voltages were all good on the PS and pins seem fine.

all stock boards

thanks ill look into the power

So I recapped my power supply cause I had a lot so why not. It’s still turning on currently here and there but not much has changed until it blew my 1amp primary fuse next to me transformer so I put back the other power supply I had which works fine it seems and I checked the bridges one was reading between .4 and .6 from both ground and + but the other one was reading about .393 from both ground and + is that a big enough difference for it to affect the game? Should I replace it?

How concerning is it if my Bridge rectifier is reading .393 instead of between .4-.6? Replace? Or is it fine?
Also my 2 12A fuses have covers around the glass. is that normal?

I do have all the ground mods one the back box boards, (not the sound board yet) but an hour ago I changed the diode on the coil with a new one and put back the 2A fuse and ive played about 10 games so far and everything is working and the game is turning on every try. cross your finders for me.