Need a little help,
During a game the machine shuts down and immediately starts back up again. At first I thought it would restart while on the battlefield then, when it it the pop bumpers then, flippers so no rhyme or reason. Reconnected all the connectors on the the power board, transformer etc but didn't do much. The frequency in which this happens is increasing. It sits in my garage and it's pretty hot and humid, seems like a power issue but don't have much else to go on
Thoughts

#2 3 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

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Ann Arbor, MI

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OP
Quoted from lowcountryearl:
... but don't have much else to go on

Plenty to look into here. Good luck.

http://techniek.flipperwinkel.nl/wpc/index2.htm#reset

#3 3 years ago

???

lowcountryearl

Inactive member

Ravenel, SC

4y 13,900 30 1

Omgosh, that's quite the troubleshooting ordeal. Kinda like I just got the kiss of death for the machine..
So much for a simple resolution

#4 3 years ago

JEC

bluespin

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OP
Quoted from lowcountryearl:
Omgosh, that's quite the troubleshooting ordeal. Kinda like I just got the kiss of death for the machine..
So much for a simple resolution

The simple resolution is to sell it to me. But seriously almost all WPC pins suffer from the reset issue.

#5 3 years ago

SPB

onemoresean

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8y 97,050 812

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Quoted from lowcountryearl:
At first I thought it would restart while on the battlefield then, when it hit the pop bumpers
Thoughts

The Shadow doesn’t like pop bumpers

#6 3 years ago

LER

Lermods

Lermods Pinball Co.

11y 201K 10,854 58

OP
Quoted from lowcountryearl:
Omgosh, that's quite the troubleshooting ordeal. Kinda like I just got the kiss of death for the machine..
So much for a simple resolution

Start simple, unplug and reseat j101 and j114 on driver board, see if it happens again.

#7 3 years ago

MAN

manadams

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Loveland, CO

8y 124K 4,325 12

Re-seat everything that you can on CPU board also as well as pushing in on CPU square chip itself, fixed my Congo from resetting this way.

#8 3 years ago

BTF

PinballManiac40

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Quoted from Lermods:
Start simple, unplug and reseat j101 and j114 on driver board, see if it happens again.

and J210 on the MPU

#9 3 years ago

???

lowcountryearl

Inactive member

Ravenel, SC

4y 13,900 30 1

Well, went through all the suggestions and, found that the previous owner had all,,all the mounting screws for the drive board completely backed out not making a good ground. Tightened all that and play 4 games without issues.Thanks you for your assistance!

#10 3 years ago

JAM

NPO

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OP
Quoted from lowcountryearl:
Well, went through all the suggestions and, found that the previous owner had all,,all the mounting screws for the drive board completely backed out not making a good ground. Tightened all that and play 4 games without issues.Thanks you for your assistance!

Man, if all the WPC reset issues were that easy........

You were very blessed on this one.

#11 3 years ago

BOB

Bwilson

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Quoted from onemoresean:
The Shadow doesn’t like pop bumpers

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