Hi all

I have a hard time to figure out
what is wrong with my old Williams TEN SPOT
pinball.
Score board works but "game" board isn't
no broken wires on fuses,
no life on board even lights are off
nothing . .. .
game wont reset or do anything '
help !!

Hi all

I have a hard time to figure out
what is wrong with my old Williams TEN SPOT
pinball.
Score board works but "game" board isn't
no broken wires on fuses,
no life on board even lights are off
nothing . .. .
game wont reset or do anything '
help !!

I don't know squat about pinball machines. But as a general rule, if
nothing works, look at the power supply.


Ron Thompson
On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

http://www.plansandprojects.com

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

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Hi all

I have a hard time to figure out
what is wrong with my old Williams TEN SPOT
pinball.
Score board works but "game" board isn't
no broken wires on fuses,
no life on board even lights are off
nothing . .. .
game wont reset or do anything '
help !!

I don't know squat about pinball machines. But as a general rule, if
nothing works, look at the power supply.


Ron Thompson
On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space
Center, USA

http://www.plansandprojects.com

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is
to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

Sorry!
Message got lost in wrong group . .huh ?
(Btw Supply is very alive ..)

jeppe wrote:

Hi all

I have a hard time to figure out
what is wrong with my old Williams TEN SPOT
pinball.
Score board works but "game" board isn't
no broken wires on fuses,
no life on board even lights are off
nothing . .. .
game wont reset or do anything '
help !!

I don't know the vintage of that machine, but I've seen that happen when a
connector or two are loose near where the head meets the playfield. It
usually happens when the head is folded down for transport. All of the
drive transistors for the coils and lights power the playfield through
these connectors.

Hope this helps
--
John L. Weatherly
Nashville, TN

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things! Matter of fact they were teaching a class in hacking pinball
machine parts for robotic art projects at the Crucible this summer. Wish I
coulda taken it! :-)

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : Somewhere in Texas a
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : village has lost an idiot...
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

Check your on-board battery - sort of a bios type thing/system. Otherwise
(as another poster mentioned) check all the connectors - and there are one
hell of a lot of them. Dirt, corrosion and just plain 'murphy' type stuff
will do you in. There should be a self diagnostic system in the machine, a
little red button (just inside the coin slot door) that, when pushed should
toggle the display through a series of messages. You will need to know what
those messages mean and for that go to one of the many sites mentioned in
previous posts in this thread.
Regards.
Ken (one time owner of 'Haunted House' pinball machine - and I sold it at a
loss just to get it off my mind)

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jeppe wrote:

Hi all

I have a hard time to figure out
what is wrong with my old Williams TEN SPOT
pinball.
Score board works but "game" board isn't
no broken wires on fuses,
no life on board even lights are off
nothing . .. .
game wont reset or do anything '
help !!

I don't know the vintage of that machine, but I've seen that happen when a
connector or two are loose near where the head meets the playfield. It
usually happens when the head is folded down for transport. All of the
drive transistors for the coils and lights power the playfield through
these connectors.

Hope this helps
--
John L. Weatherly
Nashville, TN

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