Twilight Zone
Bally, 1993Has anyone ever had this problem? I can manually move the Diverter fine, checked all screws on ramp and they are tight. The underside is also screwed tight to the playfield. The Green coil AE-26-1200 is correct as well. Basically, whenever the coil activates, its shakes the whole ramp, causing a fast ball to fall off the ramp.
Any ideas? I am guessing I can just replace the coil at this point but i didnt know if anyone else had this problem or if all TZs shake the ramp when the coil activates.
Quoted from Capper96:Has anyone ever had this problem? I can manually move the Diverter fine, checked all screws on ramp and they are tight. The underside is also screwed tight to the playfield. The Green coil AE-26-1200 is correct as well. Basically, whenever the coil activates, its shakes the whole ramp, causing a fast ball to fall off the ramp.
Any ideas? I am guessing I can just replace the coil at this point but i didnt know if anyone else had this problem or if all TZs shake the ramp when the coil activates.
Once in a blue moon when it opens up to let the ball go to the upper play field. Are you talking all the time or just then? If its all the time you are getting bounce outs and you really sld put a magnet on the diverter.
I have a magnet on the diverter, but it does not ever come in play. The ball will fly off before it even reaches the diverter. Whenever it fires, it shakes the ramp and the ball kinda goes flying whenever it turns the corner of the right ramp to travel to the mini playfield.
Quoted from Capper96:I have a magnet on the diverter, but it does not ever come in play. The ball will fly off before it even reaches the diverter. Whenever it fires, it shakes the ramp and the ball kinda goes flying whenever it turns the corner of the right ramp to travel to the mini playfield.
The diverter sldnt go off until the ball in it to dump it ? And there is only a few times when it opens to let the balll threw? Your saying it never ever makes it to the diverter in any circumstance?
Sorry for the confusion, the ball will make it to the diverter and dump it like normal if the mini playfield game is not lit, but whenever the power is lit, that's when it shakes it off the ramp.
I am going to remove the ramp again and re install it just in case I didn't line it up correctly
Quoted from Capper96:Sorry for the confusion, the ball will make it to the diverter and dump it like normal if the mini playfield game is not lit, but whenever the power is lit, that's when it shakes it off the ramp.
I am going to remove the ramp again and re install it just in case I didn't line it up correctly
Ok make sure the diverter dont have a lot of sideways play in it. If it does you can bend the ears to make it snug . Also is the coil have the correct spring in it?
Quoted from RVH:Check for broken welds in the wire form, if the welds are broken it will flex and send your ball off.
This was the issue with mine. Screws holding bracket down will be tight but it won't matter since the bracket is no longer attached to the wire form. Might need to remove in order to see the break.
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