Kickman kicked the bucket at CAX....with fire!

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Early Sunday at CAX, I was informed my Kick was off and seemed not to turn on. Jkoolpe happened to be walking by at the same time so we checked it out. When we opened the back, the smell of burning something was super intense. It didnt smell like burning electronics but a mixture of burning wood and something really explainable.

It was pretty dark and all I saw was charred wire on the power brick. We discussed the stink and debated what it could be while I buttoned it up to look at later.

Fast forward to yesterday. I went back to the hall to pick up the last 5 games. I have the Kick on the truck, open it up to find this:

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Charro!

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Among the charred goodness was some of this [the plastic shield, I think]:

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and part of the connector?

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CA Extreme closeup. Notice the charred [biological?] blob on the bottom. Also, the connector has blued from heat :eek::

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Before I had taken the pics, there seemed to be an abundance of carbonized something that floated away with the wind. The fuse didnt even blow. The blue lead is off of the AC filter then a piggy backed white lead going to the fuse block which goes back to blue up to the power switch. The white piggyback is not in the schematics and it looks sort of factoryish - who knows.

I cut off some of the charred white wire and crammed it in the blue connector to test the game:

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Success!

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I think an insect [roach?] was in the wrong place at the wrong time and electrocuted itself and cooked. It certainly would explain the smell.

Tom
 
I would've reconnected the wire and tested it also. Some of us like to live dangerously.
I once had a mouse think the wires were delicious and killed my Playchoice. Just had to reconnect the wires and all was good. I think he left like one wire strand because when I powered it on, all I heard was POP.
 
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Whoa, still rockin' the original Bally fuse holders?
They absolutely must be replaced.
 
Whoa, still rockin' the original Bally fuse holders?
They absolutely must be replaced.

Thanks for reminding me! I've been meaning to do this on my Pac Man for months. Thanks to smalltownguy2, I'm told this is the Fuse Holder to get:

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/FHSM4



I'm always freaked out when I smell "burning" The decision races through my brain if I should immediatly power the machine off to prevent further damage...or keep the machine on to see what is smoking! LOL
 
it very well could have been a bug.... my ac unit stopped working one time, we eventually found that a bug (or several) outside had gotten into the relay and were stuck between the contacts on the relay = no power.
 
Dammit tom, I was trying to burn down your house when I sold you kickman. did not think it would take that long. Explosives next time.

This was a strange show. I think a centipede also smoked. Ken was commenting that several of his gams died. My carnevil kept resetting so I need to deal with that. One leaf on the bad dudes joystick broke.
 
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Dammit tom, I was trying to burn down your house when I sold you kickman. did not think it would take that long. Explosives next time.

This was a strange show. I think a centipede also smoked. Ken was commenting that several of his gams died. My carnevil kept resetting so I need to deal with that. One leaf on the bad dudes joystick broke.


And the wires on my Sinistar monitor harness too. Stranger Things!

The team of techs were on the ball! The EM guy had them all running the entire show!

Tom
 
Thanks for reminding me! I've been meaning to do this on my Pac Man for months. Thanks to smalltownguy2, I'm told this is the Fuse Holder to get:

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/FHSM4



I'm always freaked out when I smell "burning" The decision races through my brain if I should immediatly power the machine off to prevent further damage...or keep the machine on to see what is smoking! LOL



i stock the better 20A and 30A fuse holders.
https://www.arcadepartsandrepair.com/store/fuses/bk-s-8202-4-fuse-holder/
 
Could just be bad power at the event or spikes also.. weird shit happens when you introduce funky power to older electronics and wiring.

I used to use older amps with my band and those things would sound great at one place and blow up in 60 seconds at the next place depending on the power.
 
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