So I've recently done a full restoration on a Shaq Attaq (Yes, really I've spent countless hours restoring a shaq pinball ), I had changed playfields and it is now all put back together and the only problem I have left that I can't seem to fix is the bottom left flipper. Basically it won't work at all and blows the fuse immediately.

What I think could be the problem -

I put in new coils for the flippers and had originally wired this one incorrectly when I put a new one in. I have since put in another new coil and wired correctly but still get the same problem.

I have put LED's throughout the machine, I understand sometimes Sys 3's don't like this especially flashers, so I've put standard bulbs back in the flashers.

The diode's look fine, the flipper sensor board looks fine, EOS switch is set up fine and the flipper button works fine. So I don't know if it is something else up the daisy chain of the flipper switches is that's possible. Everything worked perfectly fine prior to the restorations and playfield swap apart from the flippers being very weak.

Any ideas of what the next thing I can do for troubleshooting would be much appreciated so I can finally post a thread about the restoration.

Thanks, the first 3 are all good so I'll go through the lamp matrix. Cheers

Cheers, I've gone through and changed out a lot of the LED bulbs and for some reason I've now blown the F7 Solenoids fuse.. so waiting on some more 8amp fuses to come in and I can start troubleshooting again!

back to the same left flipper not working problem... I've just hooked up a new coil, I didn't want to solder it until it worked so basically I tested it just with the wire wrapped around the lugs and it flipped once and then the fuse blew again. Is that potentially because it hasn't been soldered? Or should I be looking at the flipper switches? Any help would be much appreciated, I've put some picture of the new coil that I've wired up.

coil1.jpgcoil2.jpg

It is the dedicated flipper fuse that is blowing, yesterday when it actually flipped was the first time normally it had been just blowing without even flipping until I changed the coil (I think I had previously wired it wrong). It did only flip once before blowing it.

Here are some better pictures of the EOS switch and the left flipper switch. And also a pic of the right flipper which is working fine for comparison.

Again thanks for the response guys.

coil 3.jpgcoil 4.jpgcoil 6.jpgcoil 7.jpgcoil 8.jpgcoil 9.jpgcoil 10.jpgcoil 12.jpgcoil1.jpg

It seems like im getting a clear open for the EOS. THe other thing I have just noticed is that on the flipper switch the two round things (Im not sure what they are) were touching, I have now moved them apart to match what the working right flipper switch looked like.

1601311_10205381187992752_4607822447814422000_n.jpg10419525_10205381187072729_5013789044364818396_n.jpg10421473_10205381188312760_3565354289733671683_n.jpg10473052_10205381187392737_1100491782298988630_n.jpg

Update - It is working now, the only problem is the EOS switch is not separating properly at the EOS and makes a 'wurring' sound when the flipper is held up, I lifted the PF to make surethis was exactly the reason and you could clearly see the EOS switch was still touching when the flipper was held up. Hopefully once I fix the EOS Switch that will be my problem done and dusted and I'll finally be able to play this machine that I've had for over 4 months now! thanks again folks.

Well now that problem is sorted another one comes up.. haha classic pinball. When the left flipper button is hit its lighting the flasher about the flipper and the switches for drop targets 1-3-5 are inoperative and when they do work they are registering as the spinner! It's a labour of love this pinball game!

It was the light in the camera box but it seems to have stopped now! The only issue I've got left with the machine is the drop targets, the switches aren't registering and when they do they register as the super spinner...

I had the afore mentioned issue with targets 1,3 and 5 not working so I pulled the drop target mech off and those 5 connected wires down the bottom weren't soldered on properly and the middle one was missing so I resoldered and re attached a new wire to the middle but now this registering as super spinner issue..

drop target.jpg