(Topic ID: 187355)

Stern Flight 2000 flippers wont work

By Drickey86

7 years ago



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#1 7 years ago

1980 Stern Flight 2000 everything works flawlessly aside from the flippers , the machine has a new alltek Mpu new rottendog rectifier board new wiring harness new coils and eos switches I Have 46.5 v at the coils , all fuses are good and bave been replaced anyway just incase any ideas

#2 7 years ago

Do they fire if you ground them?

#3 7 years ago

When the machine boots up you should here the flipper relay on the driver board (big ugly rectangle thing on the left side of the board between the connectors) engage near the end of the sequence. The cpu controls this through one of the wires in the top left connector of the cpu board I believe. Gently apply pressure against the connector to see if you have a bad connection. The other issue can be you have a bad flipper relay. And as suggested above make sure you have current running to the flippers

Mike V

#4 6 years ago
Quoted from Drickey86:

1980 Stern Flight 2000 everything works flawlessly aside from the flippers , the machine has a new alltek Mpu new rottendog rectifier board new wiring harness new coils and eos switches I Have 46.5 v at the coils , all fuses are good and bave been replaced anyway just incase any ideas

Cracked solder joints on those connectors are very common. You can have a buddy hold a flipper button in while you gently wiggle the connectors on the board to see if the flippers magically start working again. If so, reflow or replace the solder on the back of those male connector pins. The pins on the female connectors are always suspect, too, especially with Bally/Stern games.

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