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Look twice, solder once

By kcZ

10 years ago



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#1 10 years ago

Chalk this up to a dumbass move... I had a bad EOS switch on one of the flippers on my MA so I replaced it. I took pictures of the coil wiring but still reversed it (coming off a bad cold, that is my only excuse). I fired up the game and that flipper was dead. Fuse blown. Realized I had the wires backwards... fixed that. Blew a fuse again.Everything looked fine on the boards (yes, wasted a ton of time pulling them to inspect). Inspected the wiring and the cabinet switches... everything looked fine. Then I pulled the coil and tested resistance across the lugs... shorted. I snipped the diodes and resistance checked fine. Soldered new diodes and now I am playing the game again.

Oh... and MA is way fun now that I have the segmented flippers installed. The non-segmented flippers caused too many SDTM drains and super short ball times. Short ball times are probably why this game looks as good as it does.

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