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WPC reset and new WPC Power Fix does not solve

By swinks

8 years ago


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#1 8 years ago

Any help would be much appreicated, game reset once a few weeks ago on a very warm day so ordered a WPC Power Fix Daughterboard from Pinballlife. Today being a day of celebtration (b'day) so wanted to have a few games and quite a warm day mid 30's deg c and game reset straight away on turn on and somethimes when you play a game right at the beginning through to maybe a minute into the game. I pulled out the new WPC power fix board and install and still resets when playing.

any tips, only thing that I have done recently is flipper bats, coil sleeves and pivot bracket.

any help would be much appreciated

game is a CFTBL

#7 8 years ago

cheers guys, currently only have the tail fin mod running off linked inserts and snackbar running off GI and poster static mod running off GI so not alot of mods

air was not one so game on in a mid to low 30 degree cel environment, as a nice sea breeze coming through.

I know the the wpc fix board is a band aid so will get the board serviced soon, more hoping to enjoy a few games today as down to one pin at the moment. I re-seated all the connectors on the dmd and driver board as the game hasn't moved or boards been touched for a few years (been hassle free) and managed to get a few games without issue so far with out the fix board installed. see how we go....

thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated and will go through the guides over the next day or so to try and pin point a basic issue if any

#8 8 years ago
Quoted from rotordave:

Yes, follow that guide (or Clays guide) 9/10 times the repairs to the main power board will fix it.
However, we have found lately that a number of early WPC boards are being effected by the blue Philips caps (there are some on each board) drying out. They are over 20 years old now ... we have had a Dredd and a WCS both effected by this, we did all the usual fixes to the main power board, and they were better, but they would still occasionally reset. Going through each board and replacing the blue caps sorted it. Both these machines had been in storage a long time ... I don't know if that had played a part in the caps demise.
Do all the tantalum caps while you're at it, they are 20 years old now and are all about to die. I had a Fish Tales sound board shoot out sparks like the 4th of July a few weeks ago, luckily I was standing there staring at it when I fired it up. All from a expired tantalum.
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are the tanalum caps the long white blockie components - sorry, should read the guide.

#12 8 years ago

cheers guys, will look at it tomorrow

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