Police Force
Williams, 1989
Taxi
Williams, 1988I hadn't played my Taxi in a while so I played a few on it yesterday. The last time I played it, a few months ago, the jackpot meter display worked and yesterday it didn't. I took a look at it and it appears the only thing going to the display is one ribbon cable. I reset the both ends of the ribbon cable, but nothing.
Can anyone tell me what to look at next? I'm not sure maybe if the display gave up the ghost, but would like to verify that before buying a replacement.
You could try plugging it into one of your other games that uses the same display and see if works there.
Quoted from Chuck_Sherman:Police Force is the only other pin that uses that display.
great, I doubt I will be able to find a Police Force to try my display on. Does anyone know how to test the display or do any troubleshooting on this problem?
Read over the Pinwiki for some ideas on troubleshooting. http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_System_9_-_11#Display_Panel_Problems
Quoted from YeOldPinPlayer:Read over the Pinwiki for some ideas on troubleshooting. http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_System_9_-_11#Display_Panel_Problems
Quoted from pindude80:great, I doubt I will be able to find a Police Force to try my display on. Does anyone know how to test the display or do any troubleshooting on this problem?
The jackpot display on Police Force and Taxi doesn't care what game it comes from, only the main display is unique.
You will need a Williams 7 digit A/N - I bought one off ebay for $34 that originally came out of a Road Kings and it works fine. Just swap one in from your other game and be careful removing it as those plastic tabs holding it in place love to snap off
Quoted from boscokid:The jackpot display on Police Force and Taxi doesn't care what game it comes from, only the main display is unique.
You will need a Williams 7 digit A/N - I bought one off ebay for $34 that originally came out of a Road Kings and it works fine. Just swap one in from your other game and be careful removing it as those plastic tabs holding it in place love to snap off
I do have a Road Kings, are you saying I can swap one of the player score displays in on the Taxi jackpot and it will work? If so that would be easy!
Quoted from pindude80:I do have a Road Kings, are you saying I can swap one of the player score displays in on the Taxi jackpot and it will work? If so that would be easy!
Yes. Swap them out. Obviously if your known good display doesn't work then we have a different issue but you can test the display easily
I did as you guys suggested and pulled the display out of Taxi and put in Road Kings, sure enough it didn't work. I got to looking and this display is not A/N, it only displays numbers, I guess since it doesn't need to display any letters. The one thing I did notice is that the display out of Taxi has black paint around the perimeter of the display and the RK display doesn't, but they have the same part #. I'm not sure if I need to find with the black perimeter or not?
Quoted from theGiven:I think the top two displays on RK are A/N and the bottom two are numeric only. The black around the display is just a shield to block light around the edges of your display against the backglass.
Quoted from loneranger:The black perimeter is just a cosmetic thing. They look better with it on.
Ok, I'll try and find one with the black perimeter on it. Are they called something other than "7 digit display?" I searched in the parts for sale section here and didn't come up with anything. Is there a good place to buy used ones? I was going to try ebay next.
7 digit numeric and should have part number 5762-10933-00 on the back. It seems to be hit or miss if they have the black shield or not, so make sure you see a picture of the actual item you are getting.
I apologize for misleading you about the displays, I was told that earlier when I needed a display for my Taxi
I have a working single display from my Police Force that i changed to a new Pinscore set. It is working fine my problem was with the big display. If you are interested in $30 shipped let me know.
Quoted from indy5mike:I have a working single display from my Police Force that i changed to a new Pinscore set. It is working fine my problem was with the big display. If you are interested in $30 shipped let me know.
I'm interested!! Does it have the black perimeter?
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