(Topic ID: 318278)

Volcano (Gottlieb) Kicker Issue

By Green5

1 year ago



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#1 1 year ago

Circling back to this stumper from my Gottlieb Volcano.

Subway kicker when fires, blows the driver mosfet & it’s respective fuse (F15)

Replaced diode & coil.

Checked red-brown-brown. (Driver to coil wire)
Until the bottom of the playfield.

If I unhook the coil from the MPU. Then trigger it. Fuse and mosfet are fine.

Last thing I did before this issue popped up was repin the MPU to Driver.
Checked it against my Black Hole harness & I didn’t mix up any wires. Only added extra ground & voltage wire as recommended.

Running a NiWumpf Driver & MPU
But I have an original MPU and they neither one fix this issue.

I should note that both drop target banks are on the same ground line & both of those work fine.

Any thoughts?

4 weeks later
#2 1 year ago
Quoted from Green5:

Replaced diode & coil.
....
Any thoughts?

Weird. What you describe sounds like a dead short at the coil. Are you 100% sure the diode polarity is correct and/or that the diode is good?

5 months later
#3 1 year ago
Quoted from sparky672:

Weird. What you describe sounds like a dead short at the coil. Are you 100% sure the diode polarity is correct and/or that the diode is good?

I had to store the machine to get room to work on a few others. But, I'm starting to think I got a bad batch of diodes. Going to set this one back up in (at this point 3 months) and get back to it.

The diode is in the correct way.

#4 1 year ago
Quoted from Green5:

... I'm starting to think I got a bad batch of diodes ...

Well, the diodes would take 5 seconds to test with a DMM.

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