Jurassic Park
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Ya, most likely the eos switch under attached to your flipper assembly. Clean the leads with alcohol and a qtip. Do not use sand paper or you will ruin the contacts. Make sure the switch is closed in the down position and should open in the up position.
15908688891692508218564783109942 (resized).jpgQuoted from scootss:Thanks guys. Good news / bad news...
Good news...cleaned the contacts as suggested and it seemed like it fixed it!
...but then a minute later, the flipper stopped altogether. This time...the cause is obvious. One of the wires to the coil broke off. But it looked fishy to me when I went under the hood, so I also have a "before" picture.
My question is...can I just solder this back on? Or does the condition of the terminal (no longer a full circle) and the condition of the wire (a little singed maybe) mean that something else is wrong?
(also scoot - great name. maybe we're related
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That wire looks like it is a bit toasted. I'd cut down the wire a bit and unsheath and solder on. That blackend wire will not tin very well and in a month, you will be doing this again.
Quoted from scootss:argh....spoke too soon.
Worked great for an hour. Strong flips and no issues. Then, midway through a game, the left flipper stops working altogether.
I turned it off and came back 30 min later and it is back to its old behavior. No LED on the flipper board and the flipper moves very slowly.
One other strange thing I have noticed is that I leave the ball in the shooter lane and hold the left flipper button, it will auto-fire. I can't say if this ever happened before, because I was never pressing the left flipper so much.
I feel like I'm close! Thanks for all the help thus far.
-S
Mine did the very same thing. Everything looked good, tested good, but the flipper would work for half a game and then crap out. So I decided to replace it. When I took it off, the metal leaf was broken by the insulated spacers and fell apart in my hands. Never would have known unless I removed it. Out in a new switch and everything was perfect.
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