(Topic ID: 151422)

Lost Upper Playfield GI

By KloggMonkey

8 years ago



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#1 8 years ago

The upper GI went out during a game. I assumed that something shook lose, shorted and blew a fuse.

All fuses test good. Don't see anything shorted under the PF. Just the upper half including the pop lamps and even coin door lights. Any idea on what to be looking at next?

#2 8 years ago

I think I have narrowed it down, the top yellow yellow-white pair here has no voltage.

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The bottom purple purple-white and middle yellow yellow white get 6.5v ac as expected.

Now for the important part why?

#3 8 years ago

First, did you remove the fuse to test it? No, then remove it and retest it.

#4 8 years ago

I tested the fuse in, then removed and tested it out. Just in case.

#5 8 years ago

From the connector above, only the purple pair and the middle yellow pair come back to this plug and the fuse block, where do the top yellow pair go?

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#6 8 years ago
Quoted from KloggMonkey:

where do the top yellow pair go?

I'm not following you here. But lets see if I can help you. Looks like you have a Rottendog p/s here. The plug J86 is the input power for the GI. One of the those wires goes to the relay next to CR3, then to the 9 pin connector, to the white/striped wires. The solid colored wires are the power return wires. To measure voltage you check them in pairs because they are A/C. So white/purple to purple should read 6.5 AC and so on. Now the brown and green pairs go to the back box. The yellow and purple pairs go to the play field. The yellow pair also does the coin door. So start at the p/s and check the 9 pin connector for voltage on the yellow and the white/yellow wires. If thats good then leave the test lead on the yellow wire and move the other lead to the fuse with the white/yellow wire and check on both sides. If voltage is good there then you will need to follow the white/yellow down to the play field to the first bulb and check there for voltage.

#7 8 years ago

Sorry I was not very clear.

All of the pairs from the 9 pin GI plug on the power supply give 6.5 AC.
I am not getting any voltage at the yellow pair on the playfield.

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This plug seems to go to the playfield so was testing at this plug first. The purple pair (pins 1,2)go back to the p/s and the middle yellow pair(3,4) go back to the p/s both give 6.5 AC as expected.
The top pair of yellow (5,6)do not give any voltage, but I can't seem to trace them back to the p/s so I was wondering where they come from?

#8 8 years ago

Found the problem, the 9 pin connector going to the p/s is the problem. If I wiggle it I get my GI back, it is a little brown on one side so I am going to replace thanks for the help.

#9 8 years ago

Thats the problem with measuring voltage, it can read good but a poor connection wont flow any current.

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