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Diagnosing drop target on Black Knight...Help!

By Destin

4 years ago


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    #4 4 years ago

    Well let's try and isolate this down. The coil worked fine before, so that's likely good. Did you have the game off when changing lights? I'm not familiar with that fuse block so you may need to provide a link to the info for use to see if that could be related.

    Does it try to fire the coil at all? Or does nothing at all happen?

    #8 4 years ago

    If you haven't already, pull the fuse associated with the coil and test it with a meter to make sure it's good. It's possible the coil shorted to something and blew a fuse.

    #10 4 years ago

    Have you tested to see if you are getting voltage at the coil?

    How about resistance to see if the coil itself happens to be bad? You can use the chart below or just compare readings to a known good one on another set of targets.

    https://flippers.com/coil-resistance.html

    #15 4 years ago
    Quoted from Destin:

    I have not....mainly because I am not sure how to do this....
    To test voltage, game must be on obviously, but do I need to have a game started or just power to pinball game?
    I have a multi-meter but need some help on what to set it on and where to place the probes
    I have seen a video for testing resistance and it looks like you put meter on ohms and put probes on each end of coil to test. Will this test both the coil and also the diode?? Or can I test those separately??
    Sorry for lack of knowledge but each time I work through an issue with this game I am slowly learning!
    Thanks for help!

    No problem. You are on the right track and we will get this sorted. To measure the resistance on the coil set the meter or ohms and just measure across the lugs of the coil with the game off. Compare the measurements to a known good coil of the same type, so another drop target bank.

    To measure voltage, you want the game on (be careful) and the red lead of your meter (set to DC volts) on a coil lug and the black lead to ground, I usually just grab the ground strap in the cabinet.

    Let us know what you get and we will go from there.

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