Quoted from newpinbin:Since you seem to know about these fuses, any idea whats going on with mine? While playing my ST premium, the upper right flipper suddenly stopped working during gameplay. After checking all the connections, I noticed the fuse under the playfield for this flipper had blown. I replaced the fuse twice and they immediately blew each time when I turned on the game. Any help would be appreciated.
For your ST, Id imagine either your transistor went bad, or somehow you lost a diode on the coil or coil is shorted. My money would be on the transistor. Been known to happen even on newer games like this. Any chance it was while you were holding a flipper button in for a while cradling the ball? Failure could happen a number of ways but that seems to do it sometimes. Easy enough to test and replace a transistor on a SAM game. I'm not an experienced tech guy and did this successfully.
I will say though, get some help soldering if it's your first time. Once you put a new transistor in you probably won't have another problem with that flipper as aftermarket transistors from pinball life are more robust.
Chittenango, NY
