Quoted from bonzo71:I've never seen a Williams em coil with a diode. It might be a bad bridge. I think it would be worth the $4 to replace it.
Just to clarify, I agree 100% - the coils should not have diodes. I didn't mean to imply that the kicker coils for this game should have diodes. I was suggesting a quick and easy thing for the OP to check when troubleshooting his problem.
In post #1 he says he replaced both coils. It's possible that he accidently put on coils that had diodes attached. We know that one of the basic rules of troubleshooting is: When a new problem appears right after you do some repair work, that repair work should be the first place you look for the source of the problem.
Certainly the new problem of the fuse blowing could also be that the coils are wired up incorrectly, or that the new coils are no good, or any number of other reasons.
For the rectifier to be bad, the original description of the problem would need to be in error. That's because he says in post #1 that the fuse blows when he activates the kicker coils. If the rectifier were shorted, the AC coil fuse would blow whenever the PF had power, not just when he energized a kicker coil. That's why I was asking which fuse he was referring to.
- TimMe