Fuses and fuse holders came from Pinball Mania today, so this evening added a new mains cable, replaced the 8amp fuse holder on the live line to the transformer and then tested the voltages. 55v and 6.4v both AC. Should be 50 and 6, so close enough.
Next added a fuse holder under the playfield for the 1.25amp 50 v line to the flippers and a new fuse.
Connected the Jones plugs, three in the base and three in the head and powered on. Magic, we had light. Lovely.
Pressed the start button and the motor went round with a few clacks, credit dropped by one and nothing.
It seems a few switches on the playfield needed re-gapping and then was able to get the outhole kicker to serve up the ball.
Shooting the ball up the lane didn't do anything and the ball limply bounced it's way back to the outhole and back out to shooter lane ....hmmmmm, surely the switch at the top of the shooter lane should bring some power to proceedings. Hold the switch on, no joy....hmmm, use a screwdriver to connect the leaf switch points.....BANG, holy sh!t, there is the blue smoke. Seems the ball counter unit had a fit.
Cleaning, gapping and three more 10amp fuses later that's it for the day. I think this weekend I'll take the ball counter relay to bits and make sure it's not at fault, knowing my luck it will be a short somewhere else foreign up when the 50v is activated. We will see....