Spider-Man, The Amazing
Gottlieb, 1980I bought a new Pascal board & installed it in my Gottlieb Spiderman. I have everything wired correctly, game set to Spiderman. I go to start a game & it says slam. I check the door & it looks like the switch is missing. I don't have an extra around. Is there a way to bypass it? Am I looking in the wrong place?
The slam switch on the door is a normally closed switch. Just jumper the two wires together as a temporary measure (the two wires to the right of the lock)
Is there a setting on the pascal board to disable the slam switch?
How about the switch on the tilt assembly? That one is supposed to be normally closed as well. It opens when the ball rolls over it.
I just checked the manual too--there are two pins you can add a jumper to in order to disable the slam switches.
Quoted from lb45:Did you check the pins of connectors as usual ,
Remember that serie has always BAD connectors. Take a look on pins.
The game actually worked fine before I switched the boards. I had another game that needed a board, so I figured I would upgrade my keeper machine. Do you know which plug it might be?
Quoted from ForceFlow:How about the switch on the tilt assembly? That one is supposed to be normally closed as well. It opens when the ball rolls over it.
I just checked the manual too--there are two pins you can add a jumper to in order to disable the slam switches.
I was thinking it was that also but the system 80 guide says it's coin door only. I did play around with it a bit thinking the same thing. I really don't want to start jumpering this new board, I spent way more than I wanted to on it & I don't want to void any warranty. Plus I don't do board work. I suck at soldering.
Quoted from Butch2099:I was thinking it was that also but the system 80 guide says it's coin door only.
I read that in the manual too but the ball tilt on my The Amazing Spider-Man sure looks like a normally closed switch to me - very confusing. 
Quoted from Butch2099:The game actually worked fine before I switched the boards. I had another game that needed a board, so I figured I would upgrade my keeper machine. Do you know which plug it might be?
If it's a keeper, repin the connectors on sys1 and sys80. I'm not saying this is it, but I just ordered a pascal board for a machine, and won't even think of installing it until the connectors are repinned.
Quoted from Butch2099:The game actually worked fine before I switched the boards. I had another game that needed a board, so I figured I would upgrade my keeper machine. Do you know which plug it might be?
I was thinking it was that also but the system 80 guide says it's coin door only. I did play around with it a bit thinking the same thing. I really don't want to start jumpering this new board, I spent way more than I wanted to on it & I don't want to void any warranty. Plus I don't do board work. I suck at soldering.
No soldering involved. It is designed to have a rectangular jumper placed on two pins. Take a look at the pascal manual.
Both the coin door switch and tilt assembly switch trigger the slam feature.
maybe the board is expecting it to be an open switch and it's closed? I'll try separating the wires later when I get home
Quoted from Butch2099:maybe the board is expecting it to be an open switch and it's closed? I'll try separating the wires later when I get home
I don't see why that would be. Both slam switches are supposed to be normally closed.
I got 2 jumpers and was about to do the modification. However it looks different in the picture than what the actual board looks like. It almost looks like it's upside down. The markings look different also. Picture attached..[attachment=0,undefined caption="20150915_173423.jpg"]
I checked the schematics fort the original Gottlieb board, and the pin for the slam switch is A1J5-10.
But with the discrepancy between the manual photos and actual board, I'm not quite sure what the correct approach is to jumper the slam switch on this board. Maybe contact Pascal?
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Larodde
Milford, CT