Just South Of The Middle Of Nowhere, MS
Can someone point me to pics of properly wired STTNG drop target coils and switches?
(Topic ID: 27406)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Williams, 1993
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Sorry can't help you with picture.
Switch is easy, look at your other micro mini switches and see where the white wire goes, green wire goes, and black end of diode and silver band of diode goes. Same on every switch.
Two lugs close together - outside one gets black end of diode and white wire, middle one green wire, far one silver band end of diode.
The coil that has three purple wires with green stripe ( thin wire is more lavender color ) I would remove those three wires and solder to one wire, then solder the single wire to the coil lug. That way if the wire breaks off the lug, the three are still together. Otherwise if the thin one breaks off you blow up some stuff on the small driver board and smoke a subway coil.
LTG 
Quoted from LTG:Otherwise if the thin one breaks off you blow up some stuff on the small driver board and smoke a subway coil.
been there, fixing that. The wires going to the switches and coils just don't seem right (e.g., where there should be three I only have two). I just don't have any idea what wires *should* be going to each solder point of the coils and switch.
Quoted from wizzardz:I just don't have any idea what wires *should* be going to each solder point of the coils and switch.
I explained the switch wires. And one lug of the up coil. All you need is other lug of up coil and the wiring to the coil that drops the target.
LTG
And I appreciate it.
Lets just say that I'm not even sure the right purple and green wires are going to the right places, and seem to be missing one. If you're saying that any three purple/green wires can go to any of the coil lug, then I'm good - but I doubt that's the case. Problem is that I don't have any lugs with three purple/green wires as you describe/identify (part of the problem) - each has two thick wires and I can't locate a third thin wire. Additionally I have a white(ish) wire with purple strip hooked to the top lug of the switch, and another hanging loose near-by...and nothing indicates that this loose wire was ever connected to the switch.
I've done research, as the problems I'm working on are fairly common. The problem is that what I'm working with doesn't match any descriptions. So unfortunately your description (like those from my research) really doesn't forward my effort - and the reason I'm soliciting pics rather than description.
While waiting for a picture. Try and find the third purple wire with green strip. Two are real thick - which you likely found those. The third one is real thin, lighter in base color, not a dark purple. And probably mixed up in wiring nearby.
LTG
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