(Topic ID: 160574)

Medusa lamp and solenoid failure

By 5280wzrd

7 years ago



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#1 7 years ago

Ok so we have a party for my daughters high school graduation and the pins are all doing fine. I come down after the party to turn every thing off and medusa has a ball in the shooter lane, sound is going, no feature light on, flippers, pops, kickers all work. Looks like some solenoids are not working such as the eject hole, Olympus targets are not progressing properly. The machine will reboot. On reboot, the Olympus targets don't set properly and the ball kicks out to the sooner lane.

I have not dug in too far yet, fuses appear ok, game plays. Just no feature lights and expanded solenoids ( I'm guessing)

Any thoughts on where to start?


#2 7 years ago

Is the clue in the attract light pattern before lamp failure?

#3 7 years ago

The solenoid expander relay is controlled from the lampdriver board.
So if there is a problem with the lampdriver for the feature lamps it is likely the solenoid expander fails as well.

2 weeks later
#4 7 years ago

So it appears to be in the power supply in the cabinet. I swaped it with my vector and the machine is now working. When I put the original power supply back in, the high voltage 3/4 amp fuse blew as soon as I turned the switch to on.

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