Had an interlock issue on a lane. Other guy worked on it over the weekend and thought he had it under control. He didn't note the work done. Got to work this morning and was told the lane ran great for a while but the table motor klixon kicked out. Lane was left as is (with a screwdriver in the gutter) for me in the morning. I started checking things. Reset the table motor and tried to run it from the cam switch. It would hum and cut out. I jumped the sweep plug to the table motor and it ran great. Swapped capacitors....still kicked out. Swapped potential relay....still kicked out. Swapped chassis and it ran great. Contacts looked pretty worn. I jumped the cycle switch in the BE box and let the machine run. After about 5 minutes it interlocked. Not knowing what had been done I started from scratch. Plugged the switch tester in and everything looked good. Adjusted all the cam switches...TB and SB were slightly off. Ran the machine and it seemed to be working fine. Got a cup of coffee and walking back noticed something weird.
On second ball
Sweep goes to guard, waits at second, table gets 9 pin and sets a new rack, sweep returns
first ball
Sweep goes to guard, wait slightly then runs to back of deck. As sweep returns to second guard, table comes down to get pins. Table and sweep return. Lights change to second ball.
I thought maybe bad card, swapped both out and again the machine cycles fine for a minute or so constantly and then gets stuck in this weird cycle.
Took the leads off the cycle switch and bowled a game on it....no issues.
Maybe its a manager circuit thing (haven't eliminated that yet) but it sure has me scratching my head.
On second ball
Sweep goes to guard, waits at second, table gets 9 pin and sets a new rack, sweep returns
first ball
Sweep goes to guard, wait slightly then runs to back of deck. As sweep returns to second guard, table comes down to get pins. Table and sweep return. Lights change to second ball.
I thought maybe bad card, swapped both out and again the machine cycles fine for a minute or so constantly and then gets stuck in this weird cycle.
Took the leads off the cycle switch and bowled a game on it....no issues.
Maybe its a manager circuit thing (haven't eliminated that yet) but it sure has me scratching my head.
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