Stern shaker motor help- solved 👌

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Hi all, haven't been on here much lately (partly due to where I work now blocking the site, the gits..)

So, I'd had a shaker motor sitting in the box for a few weeks or so and yesterday decoded to install it in my MET Premium. A whioe back back when I had a pro I installed a shaker without any issues.
This shaker is from my go to place, Pinball heaven - ordered the one for SAM games and appears to be the rev b (although doesn't say Stern on the controller board, which is black, rather than green).

So I installed everything (my loctite arrived, so put that on the screwed installed).
Wired the red/white wire to the available matching wire/plug by the left flipper (i understand that red/white is for power?) but here's where I made a silly mistake;
I couldn't find any plug to plug the brown wire into... so I plugged it in to the only plug I could see; I think it was a black and white wired plug (which was hanging somewhere near the front/left of the cab)
Switched on the machine....nothing...
Realised a fuse had been tripped in our flat (cooker off, Internet router off) - flipped the switch in the fuse box, power to appliances back on.
Inside the cab, checked the fuse inside the mounted power supply; blown (understand it's a T5AL250v fuse - off to an electronics shop in the morning - pic below of the blow fuse)
Is it likely that I've seriously ballsed up my pride and joy? (Fuses in the backbox and on the shaker controller board look o.k) - or is it likely that when I replace the mounted power supply fuse I'll be up and running? (I've unplugged the shaker connectors)

This brings me back to my connector problem; where can I plug the brown wire/connector to? (Am I correct in saying the brown wire is to communicate to the backboard/rom re; when to activate?)

I've put pics below of the board installed and the connectors.
The last pic is of a brown wire connector which I discovered in the cab; "great!" I thought, but.. the connector does fit the connector coming from the shaker board harness:-(
I can't see any other free connectors...
Blown fuse/potentially ballsed game aside, this connector issue has me stumped (as above, had no problems installing a shaker in a pro a couple of years ago)
I was beginning to think that the harness which came with the shaker has the wrong connector? (Female instead of male or whatever?)

Things to mention which might be useful;

I installed a colour changing speaker lighting kit and also a colour dmd (lcd), but can't remember right now where they connected to (think the dmd just powered direct from the board/backbox)

I did buy a 12v/9v splitter lead a while back (pic attached), but didn't need to use it for the above and looking at the connectors, both connectors wouldn't for the brown lead connector, so I'm puzzled.
Any help would be much appreciated- wife's bday party this weekend (reason I can never go to pinfest...:-( and obvs would like everyone to be able to play some pinball.

 

[Davey D]

That brown wire is loose is the bottom of the cabinet near the back somewhere

 

[Marvello]

That brown wire is loose is the bottom of the cabinet near the back somewhere

That sounds familiar when I installed a shaker in my Met Premium.

 

[Davey D]

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Morning guys,
Many thanks for your help. I probably didn't explain well in my original post, but I did find the connector/brown wire near the back of the machine; the problem I have is that the brown wire/connector from the shaker board working harness doesn't fit connector coming from the back.
1st pic is the red/white connector and brown connector on the from the wiring harness, 2nd is the free connector from the back of the cab:

 

[Davey D]

it should be just as simple as this:

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

it should be just as simple as this:

That's the video I followed; really handy.

I think the below picture illustrates my problem well; the top connector is the brown wire/connector from the back/bottom of the cab. The bottom connector is from the shaker wiring harness; no way I can connect them
(Extra pic is what the connector from the backbox should look like for the harness connector to fit.

Good news is, bought some fuses and my machine is back up and running again (just the psu had blow)

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Can anyone take a pic of their brown wire connections?; this might help establish as to if my shaker wiring harness, or wire coming from the backbox has the wrong connector.

Is there an adaptor I can get to make my harness fit the backbox connector wire?

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Right, so from looking at this vid, the wiring harness I was sent with the shaker has the wrong connector for the brown wire:-( (so frustrating - wasted so much time and had to fork out for fuses)

 

[Davey D]

If that is definitely the correct wire, you can remove the pin from the plug, buy a new plug the correct size, and insert it back into the new plug ( as the nice final fix). To test it you can remove the pin, and connect it to the other repecticle in the plug, protect it with some tape, and test it works in game

 

[Fantazia2]

Lets hope the wrong connection hasnt also taken out the shaker motor PCB, although it doesnt look like there is much on there anyway to fail.

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

If that is definitely the correct wire, you can remove the pin from the plug, buy a new plug the correct size, and insert it back into the new plug ( as the nice final fix). To test it you can remove the pin, and connect it to the other repecticle in the plug, protect it with some tape, and test it works in game

Nice; I'll try that out with some electrical tape

Is this the 3 pin molex connect I need to re-house(?) The pin in to?

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Lets hope the wrong connection hasnt also taken out the shaker motor PCB, although it doesnt look like there is much on there anyway to fail.

will report back later

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Looks like I could take the connector off of this splitter I have lying around? (Or buy the same molex?)

 

[Davey D]

If it is the correct housing on that splitter and you don't need it, then use that. It is literally a 30sec job with a small flat head screwdriver to press in the retaining clips on the pin to remove them, Then gently lever then out before pushing them into the new plug housing

 

[Den - aka Wolfgang]

Sorted! - used the plastic housing from the splitter cable and worked like a charm!

Thanks for your help all -much appreciated!

Had a quick game to test and best my GC score by nearly 220M (heads over to I beat my high score page..)