The games starts up fine, the bull's-eye target works as it should. When you hit it, the light flashes and the sound beeps. The card board overlay then lowers and the skull comes up. The problem is, when you hit the skull, the light and sound comes on and stays on. That's the problem, the only thing a found was the flash relay engages as it should at the beginning of the game, but when the bull’s-eye is hit it disengages but does not re-engage. If I manually engage it, it stays engaged and when I hit the skull, the sound and hit light come on and go off as they should, but I have to manually re-engage it every time if I want it to work properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's probably a simple problem, but I'm stumped.

You are correct, the skull target hit relay is staying energized. I have booth the schematic and manual. I have adjusted the skull target hit relay, and I cleaned and adjusted every contact on the motor control, I even cleaned and adjusted the skull target run relay. and it still does it. (pulling out hair now.)

I will check continuity through the motor switch and through the relay hold switch. So far after a few hours of staring at the schematic trying to track this problem down, I'm starting to think the problem has something to do with the period relay not energizing when the skull is moving. I'm currently looking where P2K mentioned, " On the schematic there is another path to something (Y) at schematic location E13. Maybe that signal is affecting all this?" this is a path to the witch motor circuit at the bottom of the machine. It is basically one of the last things I haven't looked at. Probably pull out the unit tomorrow morning and have a look. Wish me luck.

Wow, I have been to your web site. Great sight, A lot of good information. That was the first thing I looked at. Funny thing is the spooks machine I have does not have that relay. It has two small relays right on the board. But I have great news, I found the problem. you’ll never guess what it was. This morning I went over the entire lower unit and still had the problem. So I read the manual again but found nothing new. So I decided to go back and start from the beginning. Generally, the first thing I do when I get a and old machine that has been sitting for a while is go over all mechanical devices,( motors, stepper units, switches, and so on), making sure they work mechanically. So I started this process again, I started with the two stepper units in the top of the machine, the period stepper and the bonus stepper. To my surprise, the reset armature was frozen solid on the bonus stepper ( I missed it the first time) . I dismantled the stepper and freed the arm so it worked properly. I then started the game, and to my relief the machine is now working. I can’t believe it was that of all things. P2K thank you for all your help and patience.

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