Ramona, CA
I bought a Wild Kingdom a while back, and recently started tearing into it. I rewired the power switch, and the unit now gets power, which is good! Before, it would trip my outlet every time and not power on, but now there are many problems, very likely due to the previous owner's wiring hackjob. Some of the backglass lights were coming on, such as the top row, and the top score lights, but after I was undoing the previous owner's mess, they no longer do. The game over light never came on, and still doesn't. The only way I can get the game to start is to manually trip the Start coil, and when I do this, the Top Score Motor Unit spins infinitely. As soon as the cab is turned on, the Game Over relay pulls closed, so I think that the game knows it's supposed to be in Game Over mode, and that's not the problem.
I've tried establishing a better connection via soldering between the yellow wire leading from the transformer to the BG lights, as well as the white wire leading from the lights to the fuse block. Some smaller strands of the wire weren't soldered. Doing this, as well as trying to use alligator clips to test it yielded no lights coming on behind the backglass.
Any help appreciated, especially which problem to tackle first, there's so many I'm a little overwhelmed.
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