(Topic ID: 354051)

playing field lights stopped working

By angfal

31 days ago



Topic Stats

  • 4 posts
  • 3 Pinsiders participating
  • Latest reply 31 days ago by angfal
  • No one calls this topic a favorite

You

Linked Games

Topic Gallery

View topic image gallery

pasted_image (resized).png
#1 31 days ago

hi folks, i have a Bally Hockus Pockus pinball machine, been working great for years, all of a sudden the playing field lights stopped working ... anyone have any ideas where to look... how to fix any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Angelo

#2 31 days ago

Hi angfal , Welcome to pinside!!

The most likely cause is one of these switches on the Game Over relay or the Tilt relay

For a switch to work 3 things are necessary:
1) When open, there should be a small space between the contact points (duh!)
2) When closing, the long blade's contact point should push the short blade's contact point enough to move the short blade
3) The contact points should be clean, which they usually will be if #2 is happening

pasted_image (resized).pngpasted_image (resized).png
#3 31 days ago

I had the same issue with my machine. I found that the Jones plugs (under the playfield) were dirty. I cleaned them with a stainless steel wire brush and it fixed the issue.

#4 31 days ago

thanks Howard that did the trick, the game over relay seems to be the issue... thanks again

Promoted items from Pinside Marketplace and Pinside Shops!
$ 12.00
Great pinball charity
Pinball Edu

Reply

Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

Donate to Pinside

Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!


This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/playing-field-lights-stopped-working and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.