I'm documenting all of the relays and switches in my TA, and really can't figure this one out. Seems a bit redundant. FS turns on every time there is a score of 100 points... advances the match number, and then toggles the alternating relay that lights up which rollovers will score the 5000 points. I don't understand what the 5 Position Sequence Completed Alternating Switch is doing. When all of the 5 Bank is knocked down, it switches from taking the signal when FS turns on, to when it turns off. So what? It has the same effect of triggering the Alternating Relay. The only thing I can see, is that it gives one extra flip of the Alternating Relay / Rollover lights when you first complete the 5 bank dropdowns... then just continues toggling for each 100 point score. Why the extra circuitry just to do that. Or am I missing something else here? In one of the other variants does it do something else, and they just left the circuitry the same in TA?

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I kinda thought that too, but after reviewing further, regardless of which path it takes, FS keeps toggling on and off, so it should still be toggling the Alternating Relay through the lower path when you complete the 5 bank drop targets... you may want to check if the FS and 5 Bank Drop target alternating switches are completely closing through the lower path.

Thanks for the screenshot. I'll need to take a closer look at the FS relay. I haven't played much in the head since everything seems to be counting. Alternating Relay was sketchy for a bit, so I only briefly looked at the FS relay to clean the contacts. Didn't notice the cam's in it. Kewl.

Keep on learnin!

I like that... but man... lotsa keeping track of stuff while your trying to play, and then trying to hit a 10 point target a few times, without hitting another 100 point target to line up your score with the match number...just to save a quarter . Maybe there was cannabis involved.

Sidebar: I was having problems with my coin unit triggering correctly a little while ago, and found the match lights were on during the game (coin unit stays in 0 position). So for interests sake, when I was trying to finger out this FS thing, during a one player game I reached in through the door, and triggered the coin unit relay to go back to the zero position. I wanted to see if the match numbers were progressing through each of the 100 point scores, for a 500 point rollover, and of course they were. Try it!

Also, I figured the alternating rollover lights should also toggle back and forth throughout a 500 point score, but a switch on the motor (3D) turns off those lights during the scoring cycle, and they come back on after... and because it's and odd number of toggles, the opposite lights are on. When time permits, I'm going to short out the 3D switch to keep the lights on during scoring to see if they toggle back and forth 5 times... expecting they should.