Help in finding wire location

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Could someone possibly help me with this?

I have no idea where this wire goes to? Its for my Ms Pac CT and by the looks of it, it either goes to the door slam switch, or crosses over to the other con door micro switch, judging by its length of course. It coming off the one micro switches lug, but without being positive, I'm not just going to connect it.


The manual does not have a coin door schematic either, so that's no help... Thanks,
 

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Should be a ground anyways...

Where does the red wire on the slam/tilt/vibration switch come from ?
(almost looks to have maybe been added)
 
The machine did not have a slam switch when I got it, wires were taped off. I got one and found the blue and red wire in the manual were for the slam switch, so I installed it that way. Both red & blue wires for it go to the wire harness for the coin door, I could verify again later tonight on the machine though.

I'm pretty good at finding where wires go and have looked closely many times, but just cannot pin point where this wire broke off of, or was taken off of.
 
Both red & blue wires for it go to the wire harness for the coin door, I could verify again later tonight on the machine though.

Yeah, I'd just be curious if the RED one looks like it was added in for some reason.
One Midway door I have has that one coming off the coin switch. (like your dangling red wire)
I only had one parts door handy to glance at though.

A continuity check with a meter should have the dangling one going to ground, worth double checking that too.
 
Yeah, I'd just be curious if the RED one looks like it was added in for some reason.
One Midway door I have has that one coming off the coin switch. (like your dangling red wire)
I only had one parts door handy to glance at though.

A continuity check with a meter should have the dangling one going to ground, worth double checking that too.

So it could be a ground, coming off the micro switch? Should each micro be grounded then?

I can't power the machine up now, its in pieces, but both mirco switches did register credits when I tripped them.

I can certainly check cont for ground tonight. Thanks for the help too!
 
So it could be a ground, coming off the micro switch?

That's what I'm thinking the stray red wire was originally. (check ground continuity like we spoke of)

Should each micro be grounded then?

A daisy chained ground from one switch to the other at the least....otherwise they wouldn't work.



I'm much better at these "mystery wire" scenarios when I can put my hands on them though.
 
Well I tested the switches and both are grounded, thus I got cont. I also checked from teh switch directly to the ground strap on the door. Tested the switches when the wire is tripped and got cont as well, but no surprise there. I then put a lead on each opposite micro lug end, to the opposite end of each micro and got cont. If that makes sense... Like your daisy chain comment I suppose. So, I'm strongly thinking the wire goes to the other micro switch. Looks to be same gaige wire too. The slam switch has thicker wires.

My other Bally from 1987 has a similar coin door but the micros are wired slightly differen and have a diode, but the wires look daisy changed too.

Thanks for the help. I think once the machine is up and running, Ill connect it to the other micro lug and see what happens. Hope I don't blow anything!
 
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On all three of my machines 2 MS pac amd one pac the slam switch has two red wires adn one blue connected .So maybe thats the other red wire that is supposed to be connected .Its connected to the same spot.Just a thought .Hope thats it .Peace!!!
 
On all three of my machines 2 MS pac amd one pac the slam switch has two red wires adn one blue connected .So maybe thats the other red wire that is supposed to be connected .Its connected to the same spot.Just a thought .Hope thats it .Peace!!!

Ahh haaa! You are probably right. Since my machine did not have a slam switch when I got it, it very well could go to it. Makes more sense and thanks for looking!

I think I'll go that route then.
 
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