My paragon has been tombed for a few months. It was last used in league play back in the spring but began smelling "hot" after a couple of hours with a whiff of chip burn-out. A few of us looked over it, nothing appeared to have failed at the time, but we retired it as a precaution.
It is now up and running but showing problems.
I wonder whether all can be traced to a poor power supply ?
The only other thing I can think of is that I get a very occasional flipper misfiring of the upper left flipper (perhaps fires twice), but this is doubtless a flipper switch / eos issue as these old games put the full 43v down these switch lines. I could not be bothered to fix it as it does not affect game play. This will be a case of switch pitting or a minor switch gap issue. But could cause arc-ing, power spikes etc as these old flippers do not have the spark suppression capacitors on them
Any ideas what may be wrong please ?
how do you test the adequacy of the piwer supply to cope with the load when solenoids fire ? Do you look for ac ripple ?
Thanks for any suggestions
It is now up and running but showing problems.
I wonder whether all can be traced to a poor power supply ?
- The gi dims a little when the flippers are hit
- It can blow the dedicated flipper fuse on the solenoid board when you machine gun the flippers to test them
- I get a rogue pop bumper firing from time to time. Every 30 seconds perhaps. No other solenoids display any issues . The does not register a score, so it is not a problem with the switch matrix. It pops when another solenoid is fired elsewhere in the game, various solenoids seem to trigger this erroneous firing
- I get an erroneous tilt. Perhaps every 2 minutes. I have changed the tilt switch capacitor. It again seems to happen when a solenoid fires, various ones seem to trigger this
The only other thing I can think of is that I get a very occasional flipper misfiring of the upper left flipper (perhaps fires twice), but this is doubtless a flipper switch / eos issue as these old games put the full 43v down these switch lines. I could not be bothered to fix it as it does not affect game play. This will be a case of switch pitting or a minor switch gap issue. But could cause arc-ing, power spikes etc as these old flippers do not have the spark suppression capacitors on them
Any ideas what may be wrong please ?
how do you test the adequacy of the piwer supply to cope with the load when solenoids fire ? Do you look for ac ripple ?
Thanks for any suggestions