Help with a Fire! pinball

roland13

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I bought a nonworking Fire! Pinball a couple of months ago. Just got around to taking a look at it. This is my first attempt at fixing a Pinball Machine.Hoping I am not getting to far over my head. When I power it up, I hear a couple of relays/solenoids click once and then shut off. The diagnostics light just flashes continuously. Any ideas on where I should start with this?

Thanks
Eaon
 
Nothing, Just the large fire wheel lights up for a half second and some of the solenoids click then go silent. I have checked all the fuses and changed the batteries, It had some duracells in there that had expired in 2009. Doesn't look like they leaked.
 
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This is a "Series-11" pinball. It is highly recomended that you put two extra, after market fuses in the headboard to the right top corner. Do a little research to find the exact placement to wire in the new fuses. Without these new fuses, Series-11's, have been to catch on "FIRE", no joke. You really don't want your "FIRE" pinball catching on fire.
 
Ive never heard of a Series 11 game catching on fire,
A system 11 either for that matter...

Did you check the fuses with a meter or just visually?
 
See here: http://techniek.flipperwinkel.nl/wms11/index1.html

Adding Fuses to System 11 games Fire! and before.
Williams made a design error on games before Fire!. They forgot to add a fuse going from the transformer to the bridge rectifiers powering the +25 volts for the solenoids, and the +18 volts for the lamp matrix. If either of these bridges shorts, or capacitors that smooth the voltages fails, you game could start on fire (no joke!). This has happened, so it is recommended that you add fuses.


It is very easy to modify your game (Fire! and before) and install these fuses. Just buy two fuse blocks at Radio shack. Then find the two bridges mounted on the inside of the backbox. There should be a lead on the bridge that is labeled "AC". Remove the wire going to this lead, and connect it to one lead of a fuse block. Connect the other lead of the fuse block back to the bridge. Do this for both the +25 volt solenoid voltage bridge, and for the +18 volt lamp matrix bridge. Install 8 amp slow blow fuses. Note some bridges will have both "AC" leads labeled. You can connect the fuse to either of these two "AC" leads.



There is a photo in the link.

Chris
 
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