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Demo Man Cryoclaw Issues
Flake:
My Demo Man cyroclaw is acting up. It has ever since I've bought it. The guy I bought it from has been super about trying to get it to work but I think he's at his wit's end with the machine and is just going to take it back and refund my cash. I dont want to give it back so I was hoping beyond hope someone might have some insight to my problem.
In test mode, everything works, the claw moves left to right, the elevator goes up and down and the auto run sequence picks up the ball and drops it down a ramp. The problem is during game play, when the ball travels up to the elevator nothing happens. The pin then goes into a ball search mode because there's no activity - sometimes this actually triggers the claw to move to go pick up the ball and drop it down the left most ramp, just like it does during the auto run sequence.
At one point the guy even took the machine back to his shop and fixed it to where everything worked, he brings it to my house, it works for a couple series and then dies again. He has basically rebuilt the elevator and claw and cleaned up the optos (not that I really know what optos are) but when it gets to my house, it dies. Does there exist a possibility that my electrical outlet is bad or something? I have my smartstrip (which my mame is plugged into) plugged into the same outlet but I've never had the mame cabinet turned on when first setting up the pin.
Anyone have any experience with this pin? I know I've read that cryoclaws can be problematic.
I'm having a blast playing this machine and I really dont want to give it back. The guy's done so much work to this machine I cant believe it isnt a simple fix. I'm thinking about just keeping the machine and hoping that eventually I can learn enough about it to figure it out on my own. Pinball machines are exactly jumping off trees around here lately unless you want some crap ass 1978-1982 gottlieb for $1000 off CL (no offense intended for those of you who like older machines). The SuperAuction here last weekend was an utter disaster.
Flake:
So what exactly is an "opto" anyway? To me they just look like little circuit boards. Why the name "opto" - which I assume is short for something else?
Reflow the solder - I assume this means resolder? Are you recommending taking off the existing solder or just soldering over the existing solder points?
Sorry but the term "complete noob" takes on new meaning with me and pinball. But I'm a not incapable of learning and certainly the desire is there. Everyone starts somewhere I suppose.
shardian:
Optical switch. The ball breaks a path of light, thus triggering a 'switch' without ever touching anything.
Same things in a ball style mouse.
http://www.pinrepair.com/wpc/index3.htm#opto
Flake:
One other thing I forgot to mention, when you start up the game, and view the test report there are several "check switch" errors - all of which seem to be claw switches. So how do you check switches?
Flake:
Shardian - thanks for the link. Very informative.
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