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Genie Upper Drop Target Bottom Switches Photo

By Genieye

4 years ago


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#2 4 years ago

Kind of odd the things that people disconnect.... I wonder if someone had changed the rubber in the past and the switches got locked on and this was their solution? (Common issue with the rubber that new owners don't catch).

The return wires are the brown-green-green ones on the left in your pic, they get connected to the blade of the standup 10 pt switches that does not have the diode on it.

The strobe wires are the black-brown-brown ones, these go to the banded end of the diode on the standup switch. On the plus side, since they are the same you could just twist them together if you don't have the standups, and your extra ball target should work. (It's likely not working because the wiring chain is broken here.)

#5 4 years ago

Connect 2 jumpers from one switch to the next, same lugs, then connect the 2 same colors wires to one of the lugs, then the other set of wires to the other lug. It's an advantage to have the remote mounted diodes, since you don't have to worry about which lug the wires go to (as long as they aren't normally closed).

The jumper wires parallel the switch.... the important thing is to have the 4 wires in your original pic with the like colors together on the same lug.

jumper jumper
switch 1 lug 1----------------------switch 2 lug 1 switch 1 lug 2--------------------switch 2 lug 2
|| one set of like color wire || other set of like color wire

#6 4 years ago

well, pinside decided to trim the extra spaces, jumper switch 1 lug 1 to switch 2 lug 1
jumper switch 1 lug 2 to switch 2 lug 2

attach the brown-green-green wires (both of them) to switch 1 lug 1
attach the black-brown-brown wires (both of them) to switch 1 lug 2

That's the easiest way to get it back together.

#10 4 years ago
Quoted from Genieye:

Do these switches go bad? They almost seem to be indestructible unless one of the lugs breaks.

Disabuse yourself of that notion right now. Switches go bad all the time on machines, usually because someone in the past filed off the gold plating (operators were used to EM switches, which did need some light sanding/filing every once in a long while.... as soon as solid state game out, most manufacturers put stickers and notices in the documentation to NOT file anything other than high power (i.e. flipper) switches.... which most operators ignored).

While it's rare that a switch blade will snap off, with leaf switches lasting many factors longer than microswitches, it's the contact that's the weak point.

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