Wheel spins intermitent but will not stop
Hello, first time poster on this site. Just acquired this machine. Appears to be functional and will accept coins/tokens allowing you to spin the wheels All 3 wheels spin wxcept that the first (left) wheel spins but hesitates then continues. The wheel will cycle in this manner continuously while the remaining two wheels pin in a continuous motion. When you attempt to stop the wheel with the stop button it does nothing. If you press the stop button on the remaining 2 wheels, they stop and sound issues as is normal. The only way to get the wheel to stop is to pull the square plug connector at the base of the wheel assembly. and plug it in. Usually this will stop the wheel and when you plug the connector back in get a wheel stop sound, but not always, sometime the wheel will start it cycling of running hesitate and roll again in a cycle of every 1.5 seconds. In other words that left hand wheel does not roll smoothly as the other two wheels do.
I attempted to see if the adjacent (middle wheel) connector would reach the connector in question and it did. When I plugged the middle wheels connector into the lleft wheel connector the left wheel would spin properly and would stop when the middle wheel stop button was depressed. this leads me to beleive that the wheel assembly is fine and the problem must be somewhere else in the circuitry associated with the left wheel.
I have removed the coin box and cleaned it out and reassembled it, installed and connected, place a dozen or so tokens in it and it will let me add additional tokens and I can then spin the sheels but same issue arises with the hesitating wheel. I can select the coin box switch that will empty the coin box and it payout the coins in the box till empty and makes the payoff sounds too then it will display hE in the front LED display. There is a red pushbutton below that switch as well but have no idea what it does.
I have noted that in the upper left corner of the upper area of the unit there is a small electronics box with some wires coming from it. This is located behind the narrow access door at the very top of the unit. Coming out of the top of a small metal box about 2 1/2" x 4" there are two wires which are yellow/black and yellow going from a small 2 wire plug connector were damaged, and one was severed. I repaired/replaced those two wires but this appears to have had no effect on the operation of the machine that I could tell.
I can post some pics of the interior to show what I am describing if necessary. Any help with a potential resolution would be HUGE. Also any circuits, wiring, boards or connectors I should look at for the issue? All fuses and on/off switches seem to be functioning. Thanks
