Tron - help!

[Chris P]

It’s a bit of pain that it happens as soon as you buy your first pinball machine. Has the person that sold it to you given you any support?.
It does sound like one of the flipper transistors Q15 or Q16 has blown and needs replacing. I had the same thing happen to me years ago on a Metallica machine.

It’s best to replace both of them whist at it.
You might need to send the board off to someone who is handy with a soldering iron. The chips are very cheap, it’s just the labour to do the work. The good news is SAM boards are quite easy to work on before they switched to surface mount chips on Spike boards.

 

[MarcC]

Thread 'HELP - TRON (pro) blowing cabinet fuses..'

Nov 13, 2018

Had a great few games on Tron earlier today (it was a screen break!) but then it suddenly started trying to raise and lower the 3 drop targets, whilst all the high power coils seemed to lose power.

I checked the backbox and found F5 had blown, but still had a faint red light, so the flippers were still fluttering slightly when the flipper buttons are pressed.

Replaced F5 (with the specified 7A SB), turned the machine on again but with the door open (high voltage disabled) - games starts attract mode as usual. All inserts light work, and all flashers are ok.

As soon as the coin...

• Monkeyboypaul
• Replies: 15
• Forum: Technical Questions & Help

Well, it’s this exact machine (has that exact blob of solder above F11).

@Monkeyboypaul - what was the outcome when you had this looked at in 2018v

 

[carl lawrence]

Pic above is from a ST pro 2015 which has the same boards as a Tron
Fuses can just blow because of movement and age ,
As this is your first machine I have is ask did you fit a 7A SB or a 7A FB ?

 

[Monkeyboypaul]

Thread 'HELP - TRON (pro) blowing cabinet fuses..'

Nov 13, 2018

Had a great few games on Tron earlier today (it was a screen break!) but then it suddenly started trying to raise and lower the 3 drop targets, whilst all the high power coils seemed to lose power.

I checked the backbox and found F5 had blown, but still had a faint red light, so the flippers were still fluttering slightly when the flipper buttons are pressed.

Replaced F5 (with the specified 7A SB), turned the machine on again but with the door open (high voltage disabled) - games starts attract mode as usual. All inserts light work, and all flashers are ok.

As soon as the coin...

• Monkeyboypaul
• Replies: 15
• Forum: Technical Questions & Help

Well, it’s this exact machine (has that exact blob of solder above F11).

@Monkeyboypaul - what was the outcome when you had this looked at in 2018v

as posted elsewhere, and via PM, I still have my TRON! It can't be the same machine.

I sent the board off to Pinball Mania and it came back good.

If you have the exact same solder blob then perhaps there was a Stern factory 'fix' applied to a certain early board version or something? Or it's just a freak coincidence!

 

[MarcC]

7A SB

 

[MarcC]

as posted elsewhere, and via PM, I still have my TRON! It can't be the same machine.

I sent the board off to Pinball Mania and it came back good.

If you have the exact same solder blob then perhaps there was a Stern factory 'fix' applied to a certain early board version or something? Or it's just a freak coincidence!

Yeah, seems like it just be a factory thing! Looks exactly the same!