Quoted from GRUMPY:Then you lost your freeplay setting. This can happen if the batteries went dead or were changed. This can also happen if there was a short that pulled the five volts down briefly, like a CPU reset or cracked header pin on the power cable. Drop a quarter in and try to start a game.
THANK YOU GRUMPY! I feel like a ninny, but that was in fact the issue. This machine has always been set on free play so I guess I never knew how it behaved when it is set up for taking coin.
Interesting side note, when I dropped in a quarter nothing happened...so I opened the door and realized that the coin mechs had been stripped out. I’ve opened that door a hundred times and never realized it!
Before I swap the old power supply back in this thing and return the new rottendog supply to my High Speed...I’d like an opinion on whether to put the original power supply in or swap in the original power supply from High Speed. The coating over the traces on the Pinbot supply are toast and the jumper wire seems like a bit of a hack. Several of the solder points are pretty sloppy too. I believe that I can just solder in the old Molex connector for the power, and everything else looks to be the same? Visually anyway, the HS power supply looks to be in much better condition so I just wanted to check and see if there are any red flags with making the change.
Here are photos for comparison, with the Pinbot supply being on the right.
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