I just picked up a Captain Kidd pin, which doesn't work.
It was advertised as having a loud buzzing noise coming from it. When I got it home, I played one game, and the buzzing got louder. After that it doesn't play any more. Moving the playfield up, I noticed the buzzing noise is coming from the reset 'wheel' that's mounted on the underside of the playfield, and from the harness that connects to it, the two pins on each end are unplugged. I can turn the wheel by hand, so it's not seized up, however i'm not sure what the issue is. If I move the switch on the left side of the wheel apart, the buzzing noise goes away, however it comes back the second the switch makes contact.
I was able to play one game after moving the leaf switch apart, however after hitting start to play another game, when everything reset (score wheels, etc) the buzzing noise came back, and it lights up but won't do anything else, almost like a tilt mode.
Anyone have any ideas?
also, i have been looking at marvin3m's Em page, but didn't see anything that exactly tells me what i should be looking at.
if you look at the main pic on this page, that's the reset part on the bottom left that makes the buzzing noise when the switch is connected.
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=437&picno=11361&zoom=1
edit - also, the score motor does seem to run all the time, i don't know if this is related or will help anyone with this...
It was advertised as having a loud buzzing noise coming from it. When I got it home, I played one game, and the buzzing got louder. After that it doesn't play any more. Moving the playfield up, I noticed the buzzing noise is coming from the reset 'wheel' that's mounted on the underside of the playfield, and from the harness that connects to it, the two pins on each end are unplugged. I can turn the wheel by hand, so it's not seized up, however i'm not sure what the issue is. If I move the switch on the left side of the wheel apart, the buzzing noise goes away, however it comes back the second the switch makes contact.
I was able to play one game after moving the leaf switch apart, however after hitting start to play another game, when everything reset (score wheels, etc) the buzzing noise came back, and it lights up but won't do anything else, almost like a tilt mode.
Anyone have any ideas?
also, i have been looking at marvin3m's Em page, but didn't see anything that exactly tells me what i should be looking at.
if you look at the main pic on this page, that's the reset part on the bottom left that makes the buzzing noise when the switch is connected.
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=437&picno=11361&zoom=1
edit - also, the score motor does seem to run all the time, i don't know if this is related or will help anyone with this...
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