Just picked up a Spy Hunter. It’s been sitting for several years. No power to anything except the GI lights in the head. All fuses are good. Tried resetting all plugs. Any help on where to start from here
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No lights at all. No power to boards. The transformer is putting out the correct voltage. Just replaced the power module. I has the original battery. Not sure if that would be it.
I checked the voltage all the way to the solenoid driver all test well. I bought a new Solenoid driver board. We will see.
I thought my voltages were good but after installing my new solenoid driver board following the new rectifier board. I don’t have 12 or 5 volts on the driver board. And no dcv voltage on the rectifier. I do have the correct voltage on the acv. I do have 43 vdc and 180 vdc only on driver nothing else. No power to mpu. I tested J5 and J6 plugs from transformer. All volts are correct on J5, J6 I tested pin 3 to 6 and got 9.5 volts but 1 to 5, or any other combo for that matter, nothing. Could it be the transformer?
All the wires are all in their original loops and is un hacked. I bought this from a family who had it for the last 30 years. However it was in the garage. Does smell musty.
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I just realized yes I just put the new rectifier is brand new but it keeps blowing f3 4 amp fuse. Not sure where to go from here.
Update. I did a process of elimination. I bought 20 4 volt fuses. I unplugged everything except J6 and turned on the game, of course fuse didn’t blow. I turned it off and plugged the rest of the rectifier plugs one by one, good so far. I plugged in J3 and turned on. Lights came on on the solenoid board. I repeated this process through the solenoid board with no issues. I next plugged in J1 in the sound board and fuse blew. I unplugged it and plugged in everything else. The MPU light it solid no flashes. I slowly plugged in J1 again and looking closely pin 10 sparks and fuse blows. Orange wire with yellow trace. Pulled play field and eliminate that. Unplugged coin door still lights on. Can’t find any grounded wires.
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