it's been a while!
anyhow, when the ball goes into the fish house it no longer gets sent to the reel. the coil tests ok in that when I press it in coil test mode it pops. the switch is active when I press it during the switch edge test.(#47) and the drop target works fine.
when it stays in the hole and the machine tries to set off everything like when a ball is stuck, it does eventually pop to the reel.
is that activated by an opt also?
any help would be appreciated. thanks, rich

will do and report back! (on the 10th of dec).....thanks!

hey Mike, I ran a ball thru the fish house during switch edge and there was no activation. I am confused as to how the pop up works tho. is there an opto switch I am not seeing? I bought a switch leaf switch "Y" activator but I guess it was the wrong switch?? (SW-1A-167, A-11658-1)The solenoid tests good.
so anyhow, if I run the ball into the fish house and there is no sound indicating any switch activation I am assuming i need a new switch? but which one? I only see a solenoid that would hit the ball popper. what am i missing? thanks Mike!

never mind! found the broken "Y" in the box! replacing the switch and all should be good!

soldering as we speak! will let you know. thanks again.

well I guess I did a poor solder job. the switch works and the ball pops up and to the reel but the entire machine isnt working properly. that is, when it goes in the hole and shoots over it doesn't lock, the reel keeps going etc and sometimes it even starts a multiball etc. bad soldering? connecting only one green wire or something like that? my hands don't work like they used to and its difficult for me....maybe just try to re-solder? could all these problems be from just that...a bad solder? ugh

thanks. just strange that it all worked prior to me "fixing" the pop up switch in the fish house.

my machines are in the ADirondacks at my vacation home. I go back and forth and was waiting for the switch

i used the diode from the old one and it is in the right direction. thanks for your response. if i did a poor job soldering (say only one of the wires is connected instead of two??) would it make that part of the game do crazy things like I described?

I will check but everything was working but the popper prior to my solder job.

thank you. will give it a go.

thanks. will take a look

up and running. bad soldering job. just took everything off and re did it and its fine. (been awhile )....thanks for your help mike.