I'm working on a friend's "Slick Chick" and am chasing down a problem where the score motor just keeps running when the game is finished. I notice the O relay isn't de-energizing, and it's not a complicated circuit. I know where most of the switches are, but there's a n/c switch labeled "On Ball Release" over on the right side of the schematic. Where is that physically on the machine? Is the ball release that metal plate that rises to let the balls into the area where they can then be pushed into the shooter lane?

I know this is easy stuff for you old hands - I'm still learning Gottlieb's nomenclature.

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Thanks everyone. Yes, pinball419, what you said makes perfect sense. And yes, the other wire on that switch should be that common power side (red/white).

I won't be at the machine until tomorrow, but I'll take a pic or two just to confirm, and I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks David - I think I'll have some time with the machine today, so I'll see if I can identify the ball release coil definitely. I'll let you know what I find.

According to the schematic, the ball release coil should have an OR-BL wire as the "interesting" one. So this must be the coil (second picture). And indeed, if I manually open that switch farthest to the left in the first photo (farthest away from the mech), then the motor stops running, so that must be the switch in series with the motor on the far right side of the first schematic snippet I posted (even though the wire colors are hard to decipher).

So the game ends, the score motor continues to run, the "O" relay is locked on (energized) and will get very hot quickly. If I manually trip the ball release lever, it does stop the score motor from running, and the balls fall into the area from which they can be pushed into the shooter lane. The score motor will stop running if I press the replay button to start another game as well. But shouldn't it stop running without having to do that? I've attached a bit more of the "O" relay circuit and it looks like the only thing that will turn off the "O" relay is that switch on the ball release. Am I understanding that correctly?
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On a side note, the pop bumpers were pretty lame on this particular game, so I tried unwrapping layers of wire on the pop bumper coils. I hadn't done it before, and was a little cautious, so I only took off 2 layers of wire and dropped the resistance of the coils from 2.4 ohms to about 1.9 ohms. And it really worked nicely - livened up the action among the pop bumpers which you really need for this game. I probably should have taken a little more wire off....maybe later. But it's easy to do, and pretty effective if you haven't tried that particular trick yet.

Hi pinball419 - When I pull in the coil manually, it does work as you'd think from the schematic - it cuts off power to the "O" relay, the balls roll into the "ready" position, which opens the 4th and 5th ball trough position switches, so the power to "O" stays off. When I press the replay button on the front of the coin door, it does the same thing - energizes the ball return coil and everything is fine. The problem is that when the game ends, the "O" stays energized and the score motor keeps running. There should be something that cuts off the score motor as it sits there in the game over state without having to start another game, right?

Hi dmarston - relay "O" is the match relay. There are 4 normally open switches on it. One is the hold switch in series with the relay. (It's pictured above)

2 more are in series with the XB (Game Over) relay - picture attached here.

The final switch is one of several switches in parallel with each other that can turn on the score motor - picture attached.

That should be it for the switches on the O relay.

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It might make sense in context...

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So I'm trying to understand what happens when a game ends... The 4th and 5th ball trough switches close (see post 1), which completes a circuit to turn on the O relay. The 4 n/o switches on A then close, keeping O energized even if motor 1C opens. Another switch on O turns on the score motor. There is no score motor sequence chart on the schematic, but I'm assuming that at some point, motor 1A and 2C must close at the same time, completing the XB relay circuit (post 14) and energizing it. At that point, doesn't the XB n/c switch circled in green then open and cut off power to everything above it? So why is the O relay still energized?

I'll look at that XB switch and see if it is really opening.

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Thanks dmarston - I went in today to look at it. With the game over and the score motor running, I tripped the XB relay manually (it's a latching relay) and the machine shut off normally. So I wondered if the coil that trips it was getting a pulse - it was hard to tell with a multimeter, but I hooked a light up to it and sure enough, it's getting a 27V pulse. It should be tripping and turning the game off. I'm guessing the coil is just open, but I'll check it out with a meter next time I get there.

Just cleaning up this thread - yes, the XB relay coil was open. I ordered one from PBR, put it in the machine, and that problem was taken care of.

This is a really fun machine, by the way!