Pinbot is my favorite pin and I finally landed one for a decent price. After getting it home I have a number of issues to resolve. I have been in the hobby for about two years and feel comfortable with Bally SS machine but this will be first dive in the Williams machines outside of a few battery circuit rebuilds in a Rollergames and Comet.
Forgive me, but I have not done a lot diagnostic work on the machine, but I have two main issues I am hoping someone here would guide into the right direction.
First, the bottom jet bumper will not fire. In fact, on occasion when turning the machine on, it will tell you with an adjust switch error. I went to the switch edge test and the switch will engage for a 10pt. The coil will not fire in self test. I am unable to manually engage the bumper. The shaft will not enter coil sleeve. I have not tried to force the coil to fire by grounding to drive transistor. If I cannot force it with my hands there is no since in doing that now.
I suspect I may have a dead fried coil and perhaps damage to the transistor and hopefully nothing further upstream. Hoping for some guidance from other pinsiders to assist in my diagnosis.
The other issues I have is the machine will shutdown during play and then enter attract mode. My guess is that perhaps the MPU is not getting consistent 5v from ps. Seems difficult to test as it doesn't do it all the time. Perhaps I should rebuild entire power supply anyway? All the components seem like originals.
Appreciate your help in advanced. I am so exciting to add this machine to the collection.