I am working on a TFTC and knew when I picked it up the scoop would not kick out. It tries but is weak.

I tested everything, voltage was good on the pins at the board and at the coil, transistor was good too.

Looking over the schematic, it calls for the Scoop to be on the 50v that connects to the PPB J7 pin 8. The diagnostics in the game even say this is a 50v coil. From the factory this was wired to the 32v line.

I wired it to the 50v and it worked great, well 10 times and then blew Q42 TIP122 on the CPU board.

Looking over the schematic again, it seems any coil on the 50v also has a TIP 36C from the PPB in line with them. The scoop does not.

The question is - what should I believe? I'm guessing the manual and everything is wrong.

I am going to replace Q42 with a TIP102 and put the scoop back to 32v and see what happens.