I'm having issues with my TZ's right flippers being weak. This is what I've done so far:

* Checked all fuses with meter and pulling one end out.
* Rebuilt all flippers.
* Cleaned Optos
* Replaced Fliptronic board (based on a pinside thread with similar issues) with a Pinled (I&II) board, although when I replaced the board it I blew a fuse on the main board. Emailed tech support and told me to pull all fuses on their board and put them back in one at a time. I did this and the flippers worked, but still with weak right flippers.
* swapped opto boards--I did this and still weak right flippers, then the right side went dead after a coulple minutes of play. No blown fuses. I switched opto boards back again and both sides worked but no solution to the problem.

I am not a tech guy by any means, so I'm at the end of my knowledge with this, but my thought is that I should have bought a Rottendog board instead.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Greg

I haven't checked yet, but will . . .

I've rebuilt several flippers before so I'm ok there, but I double checked anyway, and everything looks good, the correct coils are in place. I believe that the EOS is normally open on TZ which mine are.

It was F112. When I put the new board in, the flippers energized, stayed energized, then blew the fuse.

I read on Clay's ninjas site that the Optos themselves get weak on Fliptronic I boards and can cause weak flippers. Thoughts on that?

Ok, I realized that I don't know how to test voltage. I have a Auto ranging DMM, but where do you test the voltage (I.E. on the opto board? and if so where?)

I figured it would be 2 wires that I could put my leads onto, ahh no. This is where my skill gets very poor.

Ok, my thought is that this is the coil itself. I managed to measure the voltage on all three lugs of the flipper coil and got 70 volts. I did have a harder time getting the coil sleeve out. I used a nut driver to push it out instead of it just sliding out.

I've ordered a new coil and should be here tomorrow. My lack of knowledge just means I keep replacing stuff and hope it fixes the problem.

I ordered one of those too. It sucks to play with a weak flipper. I'm anxious to play it 100% working.

I did move the opto from the other side and it was still weak, and after a couple minutes the whole right side stopped working. Swapped them back and now I just get weak flippers again. Although, it's hard to tell if the upper flipper is all that weak because the ball doesn't have much area to travel.