Quoted from GRUMPY:I looked at the manual too, it just seemed odd that they would change their own methods. So for my own piece of mind I wanted to know the actual wire color. Not like I have seen any mistakes in the manuals before.
Quoted from wayout440:Agreed, seems strange, the games before this also had slings in special #2 and #4 as you said. I don't see any logical connection to any other hardware changes or anything like that. Someone must have been drinking that day, either the penman of the manual or the design team.
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You have to look beyond the table and at the bigger picture. This includes limitations of the power supply and what can be connected to where.
System 11 machines with an auxiliary power board have two supply voltages for the solenoids. 25V and 50V (nominal voltage). The machines are always wired the same way due to the jumper settings on the auxiliary power board. I don't think they change between machines - hence the board can be swapped between machines without much if any harm.
25V solenoids are:
- 1A,2A,5A,8A
- 9,10,11,12,15,16
- 17,19,21,22
50V solenoids are:
- 3A,4A,6A,7A
- 13,14
- 18,20
The reason the above list is static (fixed) is because there are only 8x TIP36Cs on the auxiliary power board. Higher voltage = higher current = need for higher power device = TIP36C.
In Rollergames the Deep Freeze magnet is high current. It needs a TIP36C. That's why there's a small magnet board underneath the playfield (with its own fuse). The TIP36C is driven by the TIP102 on the CPU board.
Back to your comments above ...
The ramp diverter and kickback need high current. Solenoid 13 is a kickback. Solenoid 14 is a kickback. Solenoid 18 is normally a slingshot and solenoid 20 is normally a slingshot. Which needs more power? A slingshot or a diverter/kickback? Answer: a diverter/kickback. So the designers swapped the slingshots to low current solenoids (15 and 16) and replaced the now vacant high current solenoids with those that needed the high current.
I can hear you asking ... why not use the unused 3A high current solenoid? It's conceivable that the kickback could have been assigned 3A and the diverter assigned to a low current solenoid but the problem with 3A is that the A/C relay needs to be switched to fire the solenoid. The game likes to keep the A/C relay energized so it can freely power the flashers without any relay switching delay. The A side solenoids are typically assigned to solenoids that are low frequency usage. If the kickback were assigned to 3A this would require switching the A/C relay to A (a small delay accompanies this) then firing the solenoid. If the solenoid doesn't fire strongly enough to reach the second kickback then it needs to keep firing to achieve this. That means the game can't switch to the C side to flash some flashers. It can only switch when the kick succeeds. When it switches to the C side there's another delay with that. If the kickback is assigned a dedicated high current driver the game keep the A/C relay at the C side and flash whatever flashers it wants while powering the kickback solenoid.
Note: the manual images below are not strictly correct in how it's wired but is theoretically correct in the desired result. The problem is solenoid 22.
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