(Topic ID: 190211)

EM flipper wiring question (Bally 1973)

By Talarspeed

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

Attached is an image of the right flipper that is starting to act floppy.

1) The brown wiring looks like someone split lamp cord and ran it to the EOS. This is also present on the left flipper. Is this okay?
2) The placement of the brown wiring is reversed on the soldering to the EOS leaf stack than that of the right flipper. Looking at the picture, you see that brown wiring runs from the far right terminal to the right/(bottom)leaf contact on the EOS. This is switched on the left flipper arrangement. Does the wiring polarity on the EOS stack matter?

Thank you!

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#2 6 years ago

It's wired correctly, although that lamp cord needs to go.

It doesn't really matter which switch leaf each wire goes to, as long as one comes from the center solder tab, which has both large and smaller gauge wire, and from the tab with the smaller wire. That tab carries the current that comes from the flipper button switch. That is the hold side. It is shorted out when the EOS switch is closed. When the switch opens, the hold side is now in series with the power side, which is the side with the larger wire and which gets power directly from the solenoid power wire.

#3 6 years ago

Thank you so much for the info!

#4 6 years ago

A new question arose: The left flipper has 1 red wire attached to a post yet the right flipper has 2 red wires attached to the equivalent post; (both flippers have the lamp wire soldered here also).

What is the extra red wire on the right post?

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#5 6 years ago

That is your "Hot" side of your power from the transformer that has been daisy chained together. This would be on the Coil side of the schematic. (Black-hot, White-Neutral, Green Ground).

The Right side as two wire allowing the the power to flow to the next coil. The left has one because it is the last coil in the series. (like when you have several wall plugs on the same breaker).

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