None of the general illumination lights. All power supply fuses are good, the test points are right, and the GI wiring reads about 7 V AC at every point, meaning the circuit isn't being completed.
No GI at all: failed Q14 SCR on the main lamp driver board
Cause: Centaur's GI is switched for effects through a GI relay/triac controlled from the lamp boards. Here the controlling SCR, Q14 on the main lamp driver board, had failed.
Checks
- Bench test the triac on the rectifier board plate with a meter (it tested fine here and members say it rarely fails).
- Check the bulb mounted next to the auxiliary lamp board: it has to light for that circuit to work.
- Swap in a known-good main lamp driver board (another Bally game using the same board will do).
Fix
- Replace Q14 on the main lamp driver board with a new SCR (the poster used a 5064).
Systems
Games
Related tips
- Coil sleeves by mechanism
- One controlled lamp dead even after a new SCR: lamp driver board fault
- Test lamp SCRs with the power off
- Substitute SCRs for the lamp driver board
- Lamp driver, auxiliary lamp driver and display driver test points
- Lamp driver board layout: SCRs, decoders and connectors
- Lamp driver board: which SCR drives which connector pin
- A controlled lamp that is always on means a shorted SCR
Source: Pinball Repair help group!! (Facebook group)