Divine intervention, maybe?

jar155

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I've been gritting my teeth lately whenever I flip the switch to my game room and my pins and vids power up because for the past month or two I've had three vids out of commission. The one I miss most is my Spy Hunter, but I've simply not had time to work on it since it died on me. In the mean time I've been enjoying mostly my pins and the vids that are working, all the while thinking that I should just get to work on my Spy Hunter.

I'm not sure if anybody will remember, but the last time I had an issue with the game it took me a good year to figure it out. I was NOT happy about having to possibly go through that again.

Well anyway, just a couple of days ago I was moving an Addams Family pin downstairs and one of the neighbor kids saw me taking it into the house and he came running over. He begged to come in and see the games, so I had him kick of his shoes and follow me down the stairs. We get to the game room and I roll the Addams in place and show him the switch for the games and he flips it. I go about putting the legs on the machine with my back to him and all of a sudden I hear that beautiful music pumping out of the Spy Hunter. It was working!

Now this game has been dead for a while now, and not just dead, but D-E-A-D dead. I've flipped that switch a hundred times and no sign of life came from the machine until that point, and since then it's worked perfectly. I've even given the cabinet a little shake to see if it's going to go out, and it hasn't. Either I have repair elves in my house or else that thing just got blessed by God to resurrect itself.
 
Thats the moment that you claim you "spent hundreds of dollars and 3 days of work to completely rebuild this classic machine" ;)
 
Wow awesome post.
How can that be? what really was the reason it didn't work and now does?

I experienced this with a Puch moped when I was in my teens, It was trown away because the owner was fed up with this spooky moped that worked and then out of the blue gave up on you.
When we found it it didn't work a lot of kids tried to get it running to claim it, some had tools and some experience with fixing a moped
After a long day it was left for dead.
I decided that those blue bmx type star wheels looked to cool to go to waste and took it home, cleaned the carburator, sparkplug that was in it was fine, fuellines worked< yess there was fuel in it :) etc etc.
Everything was ok but it did not start, after two days i gave up on it and locked it.
A week latere a friend asked me if I had any luck with it, I told him what i all tried and wanted to show him that it didn't work how hard i tried, guess what first go, I heard the engine sound that I never heard before.
Rode it to school for nearly a year without it ever giving up on me.
I parted from it because I traded it in later when I bought a better moped.

Today i still wonder, what was the reason it worked again.
 
Too much draw on that circuit maybe?
Could be it just happened to steal enough juice this time to fire up, afterall games draw more current on startup than when they're up and running post start.
 
The mere fact that him turning on the switch would lead me to suspect you never continuity checked the power switch wiring. Did you?

I already replaced the power supply during the first round of fixes. That wasn't the issue. I have no idea what the issue was or why it turned on this time.
 
Coincidentally, my SH stopped playing the Peter Gunn music once, and I was too lazy to do much about it. When I moved it into my gameroom, the music came back. I told myself it wanted to put it's best foot forward in it's new location. Perhaps your SH wanted to impress the new AF pin?
 
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