I've been fixing up a Flight 2000 for awhile and I am almost done but I have a reset issue going on which I believed to be caused by the drop target wiring. I think that because when some of the drop targets are activated at the same time the game will reset. Or if the drop targets are down from a previous game, and you press the start button, the game will restart as well. Most of the time it is caused by Drop targets numbered 3 and 5. Occasionally 1 will cause it to reset as well. I swapped out the diodes but that didn't fix it. I also went to replace the switches since the switches in it were not original. I could not find the switch number in the manual so I had to get something that looked similar but that is causing the same thing. I looked on all my usual parts suppliers and none of them knew what the "correct" switch was but Marco told me to order 180-5104-01 but not sure how to wire that one up since its a different style than the two other switches I have tried. Here is a picture of the first switches I have tried that didn't work and the one not screwed down is the newest switches that I need help wiring in to try.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/180-5104-01

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Really?

I thought that resets were caused only by 5vdc drops so I was watching that while it was resetting. Yeah there is a 12v test point, I will look at that more tomorrow.

Thanks for giving me a promising lead.

I appreciate the help and the diagram. I wired it in like you showed but unfortunately now I am getting no switch readings when the drop targets are dropped. I am adding photos just to make sure I didn't read you diagram wrong. The photo that you drew on might be backwards because I was holding the switch upside down in that photo, but I wired it directly to the lugs that you drew to, just upside down.

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Oh, I also added fish paper in between the switch actuator and the first leaf switch with contacts.

Yeah before I messed with these switches, I replaced all those diodes

I GOT IT!

So the wiring that Quench told me does work. Why it wasn't working this afternoon when I tested it is I bent one of the female pins inside the drop target moles while I was testing continuity.

I got a few more things to sort out on this game but as of right now no more resets.