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Flippers quitting on my FT

By northerndude

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

Hey folks, sniffed around with the search bar and could see anything jump at me for a thread already, so made a new one here.
I have very intermittent problem with my flippers losing power at the same time. As far as I know, while this happens, everything else on pin working fine. I can be playing and the flippers will both just quit, and stay off, or they will quit for seconds to several seconds and revive. I have included a video I caught it in the act.

troubleshooting I have already done - Re-punched wires on the connectors, swapped fuses, made sure everything tight on flipper board. The pin did this a year ago for a while, stopped having problems for months and now its back again.

Any help is most appreciated, Thx!!!

#4 6 years ago
Quoted from davjoszie:

Any corrosion on the board?

None on front, i'll check the backside though

Quoted from CadillacMusic:

Important question: Do the lane lights change when you hit the flipper buttons when the flippers are "dead"?

No they don't, only the flippers stop

#5 6 years ago

The flip board is mint. I'm thinking I might be chasing the incorrect thing, as it isn't one of the flippers that dies, it's both, maybe I should be looking back from the AC in and see if I might have a high res. open before the fliptronic board.

#6 6 years ago

Just a follow up and looking for some direction on what I could test next?
If I fire it up, can play a game or two max, then......they quit. Could there be a solenoid that won't charge up or something else on a WPC that anyone knows of this happening before?
Thanks again!

#8 6 years ago

Thx Chris for the detailed help.
Just before I read all of this I was actually going through the grounds on the fliptronics board thinking that had to be my intermittent “open” that was coming and going. I re-seated 905,906, ohmed our all of the grounds and such also.
Whilst screwing around with those I gave all of my ribbon cables a push and voila! J201 was unseated a little ways on its right side, I pushed a flipper button and instantly had them go.

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