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Install shaker motor in spike 2

By flashinstinct

4 years ago



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    #1 4 years ago

    Got my game last week and now want to install the shaker motor. It didn't come with instructions and I don't want to mess things up. I assume you hook up to CN16. But what is this for?

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    #2 4 years ago

    Shaker motor does plug into CN16.

    Here are the instructions for the cap kit.
    https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Stern-ShakerMotorAdvisory.pdf

    #3 4 years ago

    Can I play without the capacitor kit. For some reason the capacitor blew up on power up. Called distributor for replacement. Is there such a thing as a bad capacitor?

    #4 4 years ago

    Ouch. Did you connect the capacitor in the correct direction? I don't know if there is more than one way to connect it. Unfortunately, I know extremely little about these things.

    The service bulletin says the cap kit is to prevent mysterious slam tilt switch activation. You should be able to play the game without it, but if the game registers a slam tilt, you'll know why.

    #5 4 years ago
    Quoted from SKWilson:

    Ouch. Did you connect the capacitor in the correct direction?
    The service bulletin says the cap kit is to prevent mysterious slam tilt switch activation. You should be able to play the game without it, but if the game registers a slam tilt, you'll know why.

    Yup everything was connect per instructions. I powered down immediately after the nuclear cloud. Checked everything and my only guess is capacitor failure.

    I mean worst comes to worst I have to buy a new capacitor

    #6 4 years ago

    I thought the newer Spike games had the capacitors built in and didn't need this modification. What game did you try connecting it to?

    #8 4 years ago

    Got a new cap kit. Everything works.

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