Blue Chip
Williams, 1976It's been a few months since I last played my Blue Chip. When I played it earlier today I discovered a strange problem- if I hit the center hole, I immediately drops the ball count unit by 1. In looking at the schematic, I can see no relationship between the two. Thoughts?
Quoted from drsfmd:It's been a few months since I last played my Blue Chip. When I played it earlier today I discovered a strange problem- if I hit the center hole, I immediately drops the ball count unit by 1. In looking at the schematic, I can see no relationship between the two. Thoughts?
Isn't the ball count unit a step up / full reset unit? Can you actually see the reset coil on it firing?
Hi drsfmd
I like to have the JPGs I post in a form "746 times less" --- I show a snippet of the ipdb-schematics --- squeezed.
I can create an connection when I make the Score-Motor-Switch "1-B" (encircled red in the JPG) FAULTY ALWAYS closed. The "marked green" switches are entitled to close / to be closed at the time Your fault happens --- and it happens in the pin to be SCM-2A and SCM-2B: They sit on the SAME Wheel --- actuated AT THE SAME TIME.
Do not hurry with "adjusting SCM-1B" --- check my theory: I assume Your pin starts every new ball given with ONE bonus given --- if so: With my "faulty always closed SCM-1B" - when Your pin changes to next ball: You should see Your Bonus-Unit-Step-UP-Coil pulling, pulling, pulling all the time the Outhole-Relay is pulling. So look in Your pin --- play a ball, loose the ball ... Outhole-Relay starts pulling, stays pulling for a while --- question: What does the mentioned Bonus-Unit-Step-UP-Coil do at this time ? Pull and let go as the SCM-1B is good ? --- or: Pulling as long as the Outhole-Relay is pulling means SCM-1B is faulty always closed (?). Greetings Rolf
Rolf, I don't know how you do it, but you're absolutely brilliant! If we had "gold" like Reddit here at Pinside, I would buy it for you!
You were absolutely correct about 1b. It was tightly pressing together, and I'm a little befuddled about it, as it played fine a few months ago... maybe the recent high humidity we've had caused it. Either way, it's fixed now. Now I'm on to trying to figure out my most recent acquisition... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/anybody-good-with-genco-schematics#post-3814400
Cheers!
Sigh. I had to move the game from one side of my game room to the other, and now when it drops from 2 balls to go to 1 ball to go it also goes into game over. I don't know why a game that has been 100% reliable for years is suddenly giving me these odd problems.
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