Pinball repair in Western Mass

[JMB]

Anyone willing to make a house call to Easthampton MA?  My brother-in-law has a Williams Firepower  http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=856&picno=19151  machine is in great shape the problem is that is does not register credits at all.   Shoot me a PM if you are interested.

Thanks.

[ChadTower]

How are you trying to register them?  Easthampton is too far for me but that's probably a very simple issue.

[JMB]

I'll have to check with him.

[ChadTower]

That's a Sys6.  IIRC, the default coin mechs will have chutes/arms that are fairly enclosed in plastic.  There will be a triangular shaped button on the top of the enclosure that will manually register credits.  If you don't have the OEM mechs, which is entirely possible, you'll have to figure out how to manually trigger that arm in order to test it.  That is, assuming he's been using coins, and if he doesn't know how to debug the problem it's likely he has been.

[JMB]

I'm pretty sure he had been manually triggering them already but I will need to verify that.

What are the two red and one white switch in this pic http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=856&picno=19154

[ChadTower]

Service switches.  They are what you use for the diagnostics and configuration menus.  You can also trigger credits that way but I can't remember the button sequence off the top of my head.  That's a secondary way to test the credit circuit and I also can't remember if that is wired in series or parallel with the coin chutes.

[SirPeale]

Easthampton, eh?  I could give it a go.

[ChadTower]

I suspect this is a really easy one, too, if the description is giving all relevant details.

[JMB]

Peale, we are hoping to make it up to the warehouse this weekend so we can discuss it further then.  I have PM'd you about coming up.

Thanks,
John