Hello,
I am restoring a space shuttle pin. I’ve just completed the playfield swap, and every switch and coil was working fine. I was fine tuning things with the playfield still on my rotisserie. I decided to change the outhole switch as the arm was loose. I soldered the wires just like they were on the old switch. At least I thought I did. When I powered up the game, it was not starting a game. I went into test mode to test the switches, I did not see the outhole switch, or many on the lower playfield. Then I noticed that bad electrical smell. Ugh. Then transistor q48 burst in flames. I quickly shut it off. Here’s a pic of how I wired my new switch:
Does it look like I wired it wrong? Can anyone help explain what I did wrong here?
Q48 is the driver transistor for the ball kick out. My guess is I wired it wrong, and it kept getting a signal to power that transistor, and just overloaded? But the outhole/ball start coil, the one that kicks the ball out, never fired. And the coil was not hot to the touch. I touched all the coils after the flame out, and none of them were hot.
Also, It blew one of the fuses on the power board as well.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
Erik