Skeeball xtreme unresponsive

marknbacon

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I have a skeeball xtreme that we purchased about 7 years ago. The first 4-5 years it worked fine, then we had to put it in storage for a year or so. After setting it back up, it powers on just fine but nothing works. Coin switch shows a voltage change when manually actuated, so do the aux 1, 2, and reset buttons (10v to 0) but the machine is unresponsive still. Yeah we've done the old power cycle but still no change.
I suspect there is an issue with the logic board, which I wouldn't mind troubleshooting but I have NO schematic of that board.

Has anyone ever had a similar issue? Or does anyone have the schematic of that board?

Thanks in advance!
 
I got some results… I don't know what I did, but I got the coin reader to work, and therefore got the machine playable. That being said, the reset and aux buttons still don't work.

Before that I power cycled, turned off, took the board out and tested some of the components with a multimeter, put the board back in, checked my grounds, then turned on, still nothing. Turned back off, unhooked the coin IO from the board as well as the ticket IO (I don't use tickets so it's kinda useless) plugged it back in and turned back on, still nothing, so I tested the pins on the connector to the coin IO with MM, and identified the 12v line. (Voltage drop is a real thing folks… 11v by the time it gets to the switch. They probably should have used a larger wire) then I moved the whisker for the coins to where it was in actuated position and tested which wire was the input (just under 10v) I decided to power cycle while I was standing up there, then moved the whisker switch back to the normal position to read coins, then I heard the coin inserted sound (we had adjusted the settings to 1 coin before the move, couldn't figure out how to get it into free play) and the balls released, so we're playing it again finally.

But I still can't get the three buttons to work. No idea what to do or to test to get those to function.
 
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