(Topic ID: 192325)

Black knight trough switch lock ball issue

By Antennaejim

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

Ok I have done all of the switch testing in diagnostics and everything comes up as it should I use 1 ball to test all switches not my fingers! During gameplay the 1st ball that makes it in to the upper trough does not register as a locked ball. The 2nd ball entering the upper trough registers as the first locked ball and each ball entering after registers fine for multiball. Also on the last ball if I get an outlane ball last chance and I have 2 balls in the upper trough, they are both released as last chance. Does anyone have a complete detailed picture/s of the bottom of both upper and lower troughs and how each is wired so I can make sure it wasn't goofed up by the previous ownership! Thanks in advance.

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#2 6 years ago

Anyone here?

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#3 6 years ago

Are these what you are looking for? These are from a BK that I'm never powered up but they look stock.

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#4 6 years ago

Keep in mind, the leaf switch style trough was very problematic even when the games were new. That is why Williams offered a retrofit kit to replace it with microswitches.

#5 6 years ago

Oh how fun. Problematic indeed!

#6 6 years ago

Apparently during that time Williams was (sometimes?) installing the leaf switch blades backwards. Here's a good writeup and fix courtesy of cody_chunn :
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fixing-70s-80s-wms-reversed-leaf-switcheswithout-a-soldering-iron

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