Quoted from buffaloatx:The spinner switch
On your game is a dedicated switch, check for broken wire at your EOS switches.
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Quoted from buffaloatx:The spinner switch
On your game is a dedicated switch, check for broken wire at your EOS switches.
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Quoted from Jbo324:Where can I get a new one? Should it just pop out?
Pop out. Fuse puller or small screw driver.
Pinballlife.com has them. Get the right size.
This one is blown, you can't always tell by looks, you can pull and check with a meter too.
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Quoted from Jbo324:What would the part number be?
Look it up in your manual.
Quoted from Jbo324:im guessing this is burned out and prob has something to do with the Opto you were talking about?
No. Please check your purple wires with a green stripe to the drop target coil. Three of them, though the thin one is more lavender and green stripe. The thin one breaks off, it is your diode tie back wire. And you fry that coil and do some damage to the small board upper right corner in the back box.
STNG owners should remove those three wires, solder them together and to a single wire, and solder the single wire to the drop target coil lug. That way if the single wire breaks off, the other three are still connected and you don't burn stuff up.
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Quoted from Jbo324:So you think the burning is coming from that wire?
No.
That thin wire breaks off, a back surge of electricity took out a transistor and some parts on that board I mentioned, and locked the coil on and burned your coil into uselessness.
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Quoted from Jbo324:Any idea about the level of diffficulty of fixing this?
I'd use a meter and check the transistor first. Difficulty is more are you comfortable with board work and do more good than harm.
Then check if that wire broke off the drop target coil.
Then replace the coil and power up, if it locks on turn game off and fix more stuff.
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Quoted from Jbo324:What could have caused this problem? Isn't there an underlying issue typically?
Please see my post #24 above. Common STNG problem.
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