So back in late fall 2013, within a few months of owning my Met pro, my sparky coil fried. Talked to my distro and stern sent me a new coil and little driver board. I replaced it and its been good ever since.
I think they have changed the design now and the sparky coil is tied to the spotlight flashers so the coil wont fire unless the flashers are on too. I figure new mets rolling of the line have this fixed. It should eliminate the coindoor sparky coil lock on issue.
But my replacement board from stern in late 2013 was before this redesign.
With this in mind, I had bought this from pinball life a few months ago just to have when if i had the problem again
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4081
I was cleaning the other day an heard the famous sparky coil click on when it shouldn't have and i instantly turned off the machine. Nothing fried but it told me it was time to install the new kit...
Looking for help from any of you that may have done tis before. I followed the directions, but must have done something wrong cause neither sparky coil or the flashers would work. I ended up taking it back off and everything is back to normal.
When i was done following the directions (which are kinda vague IMHO) neither of the connections for the flashers from the game were used. Which is most likely why i didnt ger either the coil or flashers to work.
If someone could take a few pics of how this kit is connected i would appreciate it. Is one of the flasher connectors used and the other one not?
Heres what i had
New board installed
New harness plugged into new board.
Old 5 wire connector that used to go to the old board, plugged into harness z connector
Both sparky spotlight flashers rewired to the orange 2 wire connectors on the new harness.
It seems like somehow this ought to plug into the factory harness for the flashers some how. Im missing something....