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Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: TopJimmyCooks on May 18, 2012, 06:37:31 pm

Title: Bally display problem - digits flash 7 when they should be blank.
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on May 18, 2012, 06:37:31 pm

examples - in attract mode:
Attract high score should be 945,450 - display shows 145,450
Attract blank for p2, 3, 4 no score should be ____00, shows 777700
Attract between flashes should be _______, shows 777777 or 222222

in test mode:
flashes numbers when show, sevens when blank between flashes.

What I did:
reflowed header pins, moved display to new slot.  problem identical in new slot, other display worked in the old slot.  so its on the board itself.

Decoder chip? 

Title: Re: Bally display problem - digits flash 7 when they should be blank.
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on May 21, 2012, 08:56:39 am

I ordered the digit decoder chip.  $.50, worth a try.  Nothing else is indicated by the symptoms. 

Title: Re: Bally display problem - digits flash 7 when they should be blank.
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on May 26, 2012, 05:05:48 pm

Decoder chip worked.  replaced 6 resistors at the same time.  changed 2 transistors to fix a missing digit in one display from Globetrotter.  replaced the line filter on the marquee light for the ms pac man.  got halfway through a cap kit for ms pac man's 7203. 

I'm a soldering Mo Fo.   :cheers: