Need Some Help RE: 1979 Gottlieb Solar Ride
We just moved, and could finally take delivery of this one from a friend who didn't want for it and gave us right of first refusal for free.
The only problem is, while it seems to boot up, it's basically "dead to the world" in terms of won't take credits, won't start a game. Some of the head box lights do flash, the scores come up to 000,000, but don't cycle. The story is it just "tilt locked" in the middle of a game one day. We've already replaced a coin door diode (diode was actually broken in half), to no change in behavior.
Information out there is either light on troubleshooting, or a huge multi-scroll webpage.
Yes, the battery was removed at some point in the past, so that's not the worry.
Anyone have any ideas of what we should be looking for, assuming we can get it working without starting to replace the boards with modern drop-in replacement boards? We'd like to get the machine running again, because it's a really nice example of the type.
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