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Voltage for Williams SA-3-23 Coil

By scampa123

3 years ago



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    #2 3 years ago

    A coil is just a spool of wire of a certain gauge for a # of turns.... for instance, what's the difference between a 23-800 (800 turns of 23 ga. wire), and 23-800 50v? (800 turns of 23 ga. wire)..... nothing.

    You're burn it out quicker at higher voltages for sure if you put full on for long pulses.

    The games it would have come out of would have been 24v (ac), 50v DC, 28vdc, or 50vdc.

    The usual way to test a coil is to take a resistance measurement of it and compare to pinball medic's chart (also at flippers.com IIRC) - not hook it up to power. Resistance of coils is usually relatively low and is seen almost as a dead short (<20 ohms)

    #6 3 years ago
    Quoted from scampa123:

    Sorry the part is SA-3-23-850-DC
    I know I can test resistance but I am trying to work on my drop targets and would like to power the reset outside of the table. I didn’t think it would be a big deal to power it via my adjustable power supply.
    Thanks again

    The answer would be that you set your supply to the same voltage as your machines supplies then to get the correct test result.

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