Tonight I went to look at a friend's Addams Family, there is another thread here where I said what the initial fault was, and mostly the evening was a success.
I bought a rubbers kit and spent a couple of hours replacing everything on the playfield. That went well.
Next I looked at the DMD fault, and sure enough, re-seating all the connectors did the trick, the DMD now works perfectly.
But......there is always a but.....
When I got in the back box I found a horrific mess around the 3 Duracell batteries....which I thought they guaranteed not to leak!.....where sadly all 3 had leaked, and the lower battery terminals were just a mess. Because the battery board isnt flush to the pcb though, it looks like they have avoided any circuit damage. I cleaned up as best I could and put 3 new batteries in there.
Then came the switch on. As stated, the DMD comes on without the issue it had before, and the machine cycles some messages about factory settings restored, no time/date set, things like that
I can press the end button of 4 and it goes into the various menu's. I have gotten to the time/date menu and set that, but I have found that only the + button and the menu button (buttons 3 & 4) seem to work. I can find no way of getting out of the menu other than powering off, where it comes back on and says time and date not set, so obviously the batteries are still an issue, unless I have to exit the menu properly to fully save that setting.
i had to break off as it was getting late, but before I went I did some continuity testing between the 4 switches and the input board, and found that switch 3 (minus) barely worked, but 1,3 and 4 seemed fine. 1 is marked as "escape" I think, but seems to do nothing. I will try a link wire to ground next time I am round.
Are there any thoughts as to what I should do next ?
Should it work even without batteries in, albeit factory settings each switch on ?
How should I exit that menu, or stop it coming on on switch on ?
Entering the date felt weird in the menu. Everything I tried to set added one, so for example, i would press button 3 to add the date, stopped at 20 and pressed button 4 to move to month, it moved, but added 1 to 20.
I bought a rubbers kit and spent a couple of hours replacing everything on the playfield. That went well.
Next I looked at the DMD fault, and sure enough, re-seating all the connectors did the trick, the DMD now works perfectly.
But......there is always a but.....
When I got in the back box I found a horrific mess around the 3 Duracell batteries....which I thought they guaranteed not to leak!.....where sadly all 3 had leaked, and the lower battery terminals were just a mess. Because the battery board isnt flush to the pcb though, it looks like they have avoided any circuit damage. I cleaned up as best I could and put 3 new batteries in there.
Then came the switch on. As stated, the DMD comes on without the issue it had before, and the machine cycles some messages about factory settings restored, no time/date set, things like that
I can press the end button of 4 and it goes into the various menu's. I have gotten to the time/date menu and set that, but I have found that only the + button and the menu button (buttons 3 & 4) seem to work. I can find no way of getting out of the menu other than powering off, where it comes back on and says time and date not set, so obviously the batteries are still an issue, unless I have to exit the menu properly to fully save that setting.
i had to break off as it was getting late, but before I went I did some continuity testing between the 4 switches and the input board, and found that switch 3 (minus) barely worked, but 1,3 and 4 seemed fine. 1 is marked as "escape" I think, but seems to do nothing. I will try a link wire to ground next time I am round.
Are there any thoughts as to what I should do next ?
Should it work even without batteries in, albeit factory settings each switch on ?
How should I exit that menu, or stop it coming on on switch on ?
Entering the date felt weird in the menu. Everything I tried to set added one, so for example, i would press button 3 to add the date, stopped at 20 and pressed button 4 to move to month, it moved, but added 1 to 20.
