Re: HELP: Eight Ball Deluxe Weirdness


Mike Messersmith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just got an EBD and it seems to have a strange problem: half (or so) of
> the solenoids don't seem to work during gameplay.
>
> For example:
> Start a game, the ball won't kick out of the outhole. I manually bring
> it out and score some points, then drop it back into the outhole. I
> counts the bonus and advances to ball 2, but then won't kick the ball
> out. Also having some problems with some drop targets not resetting
> when the game starts (I'm assuming they should all be up except maybe
> the 8 ball one?)
>
> The strange part is that it appears all solennoids work fine in test
> mode.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike

Mike:

You might want to check the solenoid expander board on the underside of
the playfield. If a Fuse is blown in there and you did not notice
because you were nto aware of htis board (makes sense as this is a
unique board) then it would result in the problems you are
experiencing.

Ron

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