Vector pinball won't start

[pureche09]

Hi
I bought a working Vector Bally pinball, I played it before picked up and when I got it home to set it up I noticed they left the ball into the shooter lane.

It boots up but cannot hear the full intro Vector voice and the game won't start when push the start button

In switch and coil test modes all switches work and coils fire up

I put new Alltek mpu, lamp and solenoid boards and still not able to get the game to start, it shows 20 credits on display.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Thank you

 

[lukewells]

Most 1980's Ballys will appear to be "dead" if they can't detect the correct number of balls in the ball trough. Make sure there are the right number of balls in it and also that none of the trough switches got bent of damaged in transit, while the balls were left in.

 

[DRD]

If you have a ball in the shooter lane and two in the trough when you power up the machine, it won't work until you plunge the ball. Newer games have a switch in the shooter lane to detect the presence of a ball - Bally SS games don't.

Are the conical tilt bob/ rolling tilt switch/ slam tilt switches on playfield and door ? (Can't remember if it has a coin door tilt) all open ?

The trough switches in these Ballys are quite contorted/ long arms/ weirdly angled - they may "work" when manually actuated, but can still fail under the weight of balls. I'd check this out.

Have you got the correct dip switch settings on your Altek MPU board ?

Have you checked for correct voltages on the touching points on the boards ?

If all the above stacks up and you have 3x pinballs correctly sitting in the trough, I'd consider putting the original MPU board back in as it did originally function with it.

 

[Gary Flower]

Check the tilt ball and pendulum are free