(Topic ID: 208746)

Unusual Bally -35 MPU behavior

By Ballypalooza

6 years ago


Topic Heartbeat

Topic Stats

  • 27 posts
  • 10 Pinsiders participating
  • Latest reply 6 years ago by Sonora70
  • Topic is favorited by 2 Pinsiders

You

Linked Games

No games have been linked to this topic.

    Topic Gallery

    View topic image gallery

    42789AB2-3AED-47A3-8484-F9A87698287D (resized).jpeg
    874D97A0-0F29-4814-95F0-A6224F7F3F9F (resized).jpeg
    7245D2F2-9A96-49F4-895D-C05E10D7DE33 (resized).jpeg

    You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider quench.
    Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.

    #14 6 years ago

    First thing you need to do is get the game straight into switch test mode when cold and watch what switch numbers the MPU board *thinks* are closed until it reports "0". These switch numbers will help pinpoint which switch strobe/return lines on the MPU board you need to concentrate diagnosis on.
    Just make sure J2 is disconnected from the MPU board before you power on so no actual closed playfield switches invalidate this cold test.

    BTW, is this a battery corroded MPU board? Can you post a picture of it?

    #17 6 years ago

    Thanks. Some corrosion around the edge but otherwise clean.
    The important part of the equation is the switch mode test result. What did you get?

    #23 6 years ago

    If you put your multimeter on high resistance measuring scale, do you measure anything across that suspect Miss January switch capacitor (out of circuit)?

    This suspect MPU board could have some slight resistive short (commonly caused by corrosion) between switch return lines.

    Grab your multimeter and set it to read resistance. If your meter isn't auto-ranging set it to 200k ohms scale.

    With the MPU board cold, machine OFF and J2 and J3 disconnected, measure the resistance across the following pins - the readings should all be around 114k ohms:

    J2 pin 1 to pin 2 =
    J2 pin 2 to pin 3 =
    J2 pin 3 to pin 4 =
    J2 pin 4 to pin 5 =

    J2 pin 8 to pin 9 =
    J2 pin 9 to pin 10 =
    J2 pin 10 to pin 11 =
    J2 pin 11 to pin 12 =
    J2 pin 12 to pin 13 =
    J2 pin 13 to pin 14 =
    J2 pin 14 to pin 15 =

    #26 6 years ago
    Quoted from Ballypalooza:

    2 and J3 disconnected. Cold board.
    Measure J2 pins
    1-2. 115.1
    2-3. 114.8
    3-4. 115.1
    4-5. 114.5

    8-9. 113.6
    9-10. 114.0
    10-11. 114.8
    11-12. 115.6
    12-13. 116.4
    13-14. 115.3
    14-15. 114.5
    Anything stand out of line?

    Those readings all looks fine to me.
    Install a new capacitor on that Miss January standup target like CactusJack said and see what happens.

    You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider quench.
    Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.

    Reply

    Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

    Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

    Donate to Pinside

    Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!


    This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/unusual-bally-35-mpu-behavior?tu=quench and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

    Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.