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Cyclone- I think I fried something.

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MameMaster!:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

I replaced my worn out flipper mechs on my Cyclone (I had rebuilt them about 2 years ago) with brand new replacements from pinballlife.com (they were the correct ones and the correct coils).

All went perfectly and they worked fine.

Pushing my luck, I also replaced the flipper leaf switches with brand news ones as well....all went well UNTIL I press both flippers at the same time.

I heard a hum....then the flippers went dead. Sure enough I blew the fuse. I replaced it and now the back board flasher are always on and the flippers still don't work.

Well actually the do "work" but not correctly. If I physically push the plunger in about half way the selnoid activates when I hit the flipper button but when it's in a normal position, it "tries" to activate but clearly doesn't have enough power to fire.

It kinda' just lightly buzzes and moves but doesn't actually activate.

Again- the back board flashers  are still on as of now.

I checked all of my soldering points, and double check all of the connections to make sure nothing is touching where it shouldn't but nothing obvious is jumping out at me.

Any suggestions?  :cheers: :dunno

MameMaster!:
I didn't replace the coils-- I replaced the entire mech with a brand new coil as below from pinball life.com:

 :P

Any other suggestions ?  :cheers:

ed12:
yup wired backward's
u have the :eos=end-of-stroke:switch,acting as the flipper button
before u go any futher open 1 side of the diode across the coils and chk for it to be shorted,then rem the white band is the cathrode side ie positve,then doulbe chk it from there,also make sure u are not shorting out the :eos: switch
for the back board light ,u could have sent a high voltage into the light matrix,
again look for a blown diode...a manual come's in handy right now
best of luck

ed

MameMaster!:
Thanks for the suggestions...back to the lab!  :cheers:

ed12:
hi
i double chked your pic
u have a eos not even wired ?
the other dose not have the coil :break:wired
rem u are working with 2 coil's with in 1
1=high-power side
1=low power side
the high power side is your :pull-in:
the low power-side is your :hold:
the :eos: must be wired to the high power side
with williams and bally i have seem it hundered's of time's where ppl reverse this switch,thus fregging up there :matrix:

ed

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