Players, credits or ball count not resetting points to a stepper unit

If the number of players, the ball in play, the credit count or a similar feature fails to reset when a game starts, the stepper unit behind that feature is the place to look (dirty rivets, weak spring, misadjusted reset switch). If a particular playfield feature misbehaves instead, trace it on the schematic.

Systems

• Electro-mechanical

Related tips

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• Ball count stepper won't advance: pawl arm frozen in old grease
• What stepper units do in an EM
• Kinds of stepper unit
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• Ball count runs to 10 and the game resets endlessly: dirty ball count stepper
• Cleaning and aligning an EM stepper unit
• Wrong player comes up on ball 2 and scores won't reset: stuck P relay switch

Source: Repairing Electro-Mechanical (EM) Coin Operated Games to 1978, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)