Re: Tech EM: Ship Ahoy Spinner - 1 Year Later with You Tube

On Feb 26, 4:11 pm, Sean Kavanagh <stoo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 26, 7:04 am, Sean Kavanagh <stoo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Feb 25, 9:48 pm, newmantjn <packer....@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Flashback - 1 year ago, I was having trouble with my Ship Ahoy TimMe
suggested a number of things and I played around with it, but never
got up the guts (or maybe ambition?) to solder and replace the
capacitor and diode in question.  This week, I am having a lot of
people come over to play games and I would like them all 100%.  I
cannot solve this problem after messing with it for probably 10 hours
now.

Basically, the spinner will randomly spot numbers it shouldn't.

The original post is referenced here:

http://tinyurl.com/SpinnerProblem

I am sorry, but google didn't allow me to bump it (maybe because it
was so long ago)

I posted You Tube Videos Here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11p170H71ywhttp://www.youtube.com/watc...

Note, the second video is still processing, so it may give you a
problem.

I posted the schematic here.  The G NC switch I referenced in the
video has an arrow pointing to it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/newmantjn/ShipAhoySchematics?authkey=JFpl...

Any and all help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Hi Todd,

I don't notice your "spin-n-spot" light being lit ever in your
videos...what frequency do you have that feature on?  You know it's
the Lib-Con plug under the PF?  You can set it to either spot all the
time, 2 out of 3, or 1 out of 3 times the 500-pt relay is hit.  Maybe
your problem is in this jones plug?

Sean

OK...home now so I can look at mine.  Trying to this *** from work is
hard!

I thought about this and I have a couple more suggestions...
- Have you checked that NO switch on the F relay shown below the KS
unit cutout on the schematic?  It shows GR to BR-WH wires.  If it was
gapped too close it could do this, I would think.

- How about the spinner switch itself being gapped too close?  I have
less faith in this suggestion, but your PF down only symptom makes me
wonder.

The PF down symptom might only be because you can't spin it fast
enough with your finger.  Also look for a wire loom that may be
resting on the F, G, & P relays  with the PF down.

Have fun!!  The random errors are always the hardest to find....

Sean- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for the suggestions. I am ripping my hair out on this one....

I'm also going to have a look at the flip/flop switch. I think the
timing of these two relays and the overlap of F and G and P being on
at the same time is critical.

Thanks again.
.

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