Quoted from Black_Knight:As outlined in the first post, it is not mechanical.
It occurs after you press the flipper button, and releases when the power is removed.
The flipper moves freely when pushing the bat or pushing the plunger in manually.
He was asking you to move the flipper during gameplay manually to determine if the hold winding was constantly energized. If you did this, it would help determine if there may be a transistor issue. The coils are double wound so the hold winding can be energized while the main high power is not