Data East Time machine pinball blowing 8 amp fuse.

arcades4ever

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My Time machine is blowing the 8 am fuse at the service plug assembly as soon as I plug the game in. There is an filter inside and a capacitor that seems to be burned out? Do I just need to replace this capacitor or the whole filter assembly. If so what do I purchase or where can i find part info. Can I eliminate it for now to see if it works and replace it later? It has been a while since I have turned this on and i remember a pretty good lighting strike about the time I noticed It stopped working. I can not get my picture to load.
 
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yes you can just leave out the linefilter to test, and it's probably not a capacitor but a MOV or NTC, see here : http://www.flippers.be/basics/101_sys11_house_fuse_trips.html

you can skip all these parts to test but it's safest to reinstall them later to protect the game again in the future.

Thank you for the tip. I went to radioshack and they had a varistor. I installed it and everything is working well. Thank you.
 
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