Re: Fish Tales F106 fuse is just killing me!

Good job. The way it was wired F106 was probably powering 2 strings of
GI. That would sure explain things.
On Oct 20, 2:58 am, "Keith" <analog999_n_o_s_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
After fussing with this machine for the last few hours, I *think* I have it
finally figured out. I don't know why I didn't check it first, but it
looks like J120 was rewired - incorrectly. Somehow it worked for a while.
All the solids were in the right spots (brown 1, orange 2, green 5), but the
whites were in the wrong spots (brown was in 11, green in 10 and orange in
9, supposed to be: brown in 7, orange in 8 and green in 10 (i think, i'd
have to double check the manual). Anyway, its been running for a while now
so we'll see. Interestingly enough, it appears that two of the bulbs on
separate occasions after the haywire, went from being about 2.5ohms across
the element to 300k+. I originally thought maybe it really was a bad
socket so I was testing all the bulbs after it went out, etc. So maybe
chalk that one up to some jackass rewiring stuff. I hate operators
sometimes.

I guess a good part of this was I went through all the bulbs in the whole
machine and cleaned them, including wiping out the inserts w/a qtip. I
know it needed to be done and all, but wow it never ceases to amaze me how
good a machine can look after you clean them!

"Keith" <analog999_n_o_s_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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That's the thing though, I don't know for sure whether it has to do with
the backbox lighting or the playfield lighting. I just want to make
sure it isn't the transistor. I would think a transistor problem would
be more of a open short and the lights never turn off, or reverse and
putting a new fuse on the circuit while its hot wouldn't light the lights
back up. So I'm pretty confident it isn't the transistor.

I guess I'll just have to keep going through the lights until I find the
problem.

Keith

"Lloyd Olson" <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The GI lights out J120, pull out all the bulbs and then plug them back in
one at a time. When you get one that pops the fuse after 10 minutes (
this will take some time to do ) then you found the bad socket. LTG :)

"Keith" <analog999_n_o_s_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to find out why my Fish Tales F106 keeps blowing. I looked
at the playfield and the backbox and it all looks fine. It works
great for a while and then while it is just sitting there, the fuse will
blow. Could it be the transistor? I checked it with my multimeter and
it seems to have the right range of values, compared with the other
transistors around it. I did just replace the J115 connector, as it
was burnt to a crisp (and part of it was missing). But the fuse
problem was there before I replaced the connector. I am wondering if
maybe there is a common trouble spot that I should check where maybe a
wire touches over or something - I'm at a loss here. The F106
controls the bottom of the playfield (near the flippers) GI lights and
the GI lights on the bottom of the backbox. I ran without J120 for a
while and the fuse didn't blow. A while meaning about 10 minutes.
After I replaced J120, it took about 10 more minutes and it blew.

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