Bally Night Club Bingo Machine Restoration Part 2: Getting it Running!

[@alanward8694]

Very informative video. I bought one of these machines last week. Been 50 years since I saw one. Good job with the video.

[@jensmaa]

Thank you for taking your audience through the prcess, great video!

[@arnbon6241]

The spotting disk should turn ONLY when the machine is in the spin cycle ( only few seconds ). Now for the ball, did you have all the eight balls in the trough because one less and no balls will go to the playfield , because in early machines players were cheating so they wired later machine to act this way. Thanks for the upload.

[@MaxsGarage]

@@arnbon6241 Yes, I eventually figured out that the spotting disc and ball motor should run only in those situations. All 8 balls were present, and towards the end of the video I figure out that a switch in the ball trough needed adjustment so that the balls would load.

[@waynegram8907]

MAX, when looking at various pinball games schematics the fast & low blow fuses are often go to different circuits and voltages but what determines a circuit to either use fast blow or slow blow?

[@MaxsGarage]

It depends on the circuit. If there's a short circuit, the fuse should blow immediately (fast blow). If it's a circuit that normally draws an amount of current close to the limit of what the fuse can handle, it needs to be a slow blow fuse so that the high current draw doesn't blow the fuse when it's not supposed to.

[@waynegram8907]

@@MaxsGarage I'm still confused how to tell or what determines a circuit to use a Slow Blow Fuse? example if the circuit is drawing pulling 500mA you will use a 550mA or 600mA slow blow fuse but most slow blow fuses have a T for timing I think in uS microseconds. So I don't know the uS microseconds timing of the slow blow fuse based on the circuits current draw/pulling?