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Scope: Includes Gottlieb pinball System 80, 80a, 80b games from Spiderman (1/80) to
Bone Busters (8/89). The most popular System 80 games that this information
particularly applies to are Black Hole (10/81) and Haunted House (2/82).

Internet Availability of this Document.

Updates of this document are available for no cost at http://marvin3m.com/fix.htm if
you have Internet access. This document is four parts (part one, part two, part
three, part four).

IMPORTANT: Before Starting!

IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN CIRCUIT BOARD REPAIR, YOU SHOULD NOT
TRY TO FIX YOUR OWN PINBALL GAME! Before you start any pinball circuit board
repair, review the document at http://marvin3m.com/begin, which goes over the basics
of circuit board repair. Since these pinball repair documents have been available, repair
facilities are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of ruined ("hacked") circuit
boards sent in for repair. Most repair facilities will NOT repair your circuit board
after it has been unsuccessfully repaired ("hacked") by you. If you aren't up to
repairing your circuit boards yourself, refer to the parts & repair web page for help.

Table of Contents
0. Getting Started:
a. Introduction, Schematics, Books
b. System 80 Games List, Numbers
c. System 80 Parts to have on-hand
d. Check the Coil Resistance.

1. Mandatory Fixes:

a. Circuit Board Defects

b. Power Supply Fix
c. Battery Replacement/Corrosion (CPU board Reset/Clock Circuits)
d. Ground Problem Fix (CPU and Driver board)
e. Connector Problems
f. Pop Bumper Driver Board Fixes and Mods
g. Pull Up Resistor Addition
h. Check the Coil Resistance.

2. Suggested Fixes:

a. Kicker Solenoid Fuses/Switch Arc Fix

b. Haunted House Up Kicker Fix
c. Protecting Display "Nipples"
d. Permanently "fixing" the Slam Switch

3. Other Information and Fixes:

a. Testing Transistors (and Driver Board Info)

b. Transistor Info/Substitutes
c. Fuse List for HH/BH
d. CPU Board Revision Mods
e. Score Displays
f. Auxiliary Lamp Driver Board

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g. Repair Comments (General, Sound, Solenoids)

h. Black Hole Motor Fix
i. Haunted House Trap Door
j. System 80 Reset Board
k. Setting Free Play
l. Black Hole Solenoid Test Correction
m. Switch Matrix for Haunted House
n. Transistor/Coil List for HH/BH
o. Connector/Transistor/Coil List for HH/BH
p. CPU Connector Pinouts
q. Dip Switch Settings
r. Bookkeeping and Self Test
s. Replacing CPU board U2/U3 ROMs to EPROMs.
t. Updating old CPU boards.
u. Gottlieb Rubber Part Number/Size Chart.

4. Systematic Gottlieb System 80 Circuit Board Repair

Fixing the System80 CPU board.

Fixing the System80 Sound and Speech board.

Bibliography.
In the creation of this document, some information came from the following sources:

Gottlieb Service Bullentins, Gottlieb, 1980 to 1990.

Gottlieb Star Series 80 Service Manual, 1982. Available from Pinball Resource.
John Robertson web articles.
Black Hole/Haunted House Gottlieb System 80 Club of America, J. Cook, 1994.

Thanks goes to the following people that helped with this document. This includes Rob
Hayes, John Robertson, and Pascal Janin.

* Go to System 80 Repair Part One

* Go to System 80 Repair Part Two
* Go to System 80 Repair Part Three
* Go to System 80 Repair Part Four
* Return to the Pin Fix-It Index
* Return to Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

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