I am brand new to this, so excuse my lack of knowledge.

I recently replaced the bulbs on my Getaway: High Speed 2 with CT LED's, and also replaced the crank assembly under the right flipper. I did not replace the solenoid, just the crank assembly and plastic sleeve that sits in the solenoid.

I got the machine put back together, and made it through 2 balls before the plunger stopped working. The plunger on the Getaway is a "shifter" that you push up or down to launch the ball. The shifter has other uses in-game, too - to shift gears during regular play, or shifting during video mode. These alternative uses still work, but the ball will not launch.

In my attempt to diagnose, I noticed that the mars lamp is not rotating as it had been. It still lights up, but does not rotate.

I did the solenoid test and nothing pulses on either the plunger solenoid or the mars lamp solenoid. I don't really know what to do from here. I tried switching the F104 fuse with F105, just to see if maybe I had burned one out. No change in the solenoid test.

Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Or where I should go from here as far as testing goes? Any help is appreciated.

Bump! need help!

Thanks for the advice! At this point I'm thinking it has to be a bad wire somewhere. I'm gonna comb the underside thus evening and check. I only checked the shifter area for bad wires previously.

And yeah I did the switch test and both up/down register. I also tried (at someone on the forum's suggestion) switching to flipper plunger in the settings. No luck there - so a bad solenoid or wire seems likely. The solenoid thing would seem odd to me, though, as they happened at the same time. Would that be weird?

I took your advice and decided to focus on the plunger. I lifted my playfield and looked at the all the connections to see if anything was out of place. The wire running to the plunger solenoid is questionable, I'll attach a picture.

I also went behind the backglass and followed where the wires were connected. One of the connectors (j127 I believe, I'm not home right now) I disconnected and reconnected. When I lowered the playfield and started a game, the plunger worked for 2 balls, then went back to not working. No idea what that means. I'll keep searching tonight.

Forgot to attach the pic!

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