How hard can it be?!

Mudge

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I have 2 pinball machines, Cleopatra and Blackout. As an owner I cut my teeth on the Cleopatra when I won it at an auction for 100 us. I was warned after the purchase of the issues I would encounter and I did. Thanks to Ace @Niwumpf the problems were short lived.

The Blackout has been a different story though. I've had it almost 2 years now and I can't figure it out and 2 self professed pinball repair people have failed too.

I got a refurbished MPU board from a place in the mid-west and tried that. No dice. No boot routine. The voice works, the lights light but no boot. My thoughts were that it was the master display board because I only got an occasional flicker from all 4 but they never displayed anything sensable.

Then I thought, contacts, so I repinned ALL the harnesses from board to board and checked for continuity. All connections good. I had the FLIPPER ROM's replaced....no change.

Noow it's sitting in the last attempted repairman's garage awaiting pick up by me. IF any of you reading this no a really good, really smart, repair person in the central Calif area would you let me know.

You can't say I haven't been persistant! ;)

Mudge
 
I've got a similar problem with a Bally Playboy, replaced so much and it seems like I'm getting nowhere so I can relate.

I seen your list of things tried\repaired - did not see the 40-pin interconnect mentioned, has this been addressed? The mpu was rebuilt, was the battery holder replaced\removed and remoted, or ??

As far as sensable display output, was it complete junk or was it numbers, all zeros, or ??

Did you check the switch matrix, making sure no problems were there?
 
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