Arcade Collecting > Pinball

What does it mean when pinball machine says bad coil?

(1/3) > >>

roberts123:
I do not know a lot about pinball machines, so any help at all would help out.

I have a Monday Night Football pinball machine. When i turn it on it says that "Bad  Coil" and I have no clue what it means or how to fix it. So if anybody could help me out I would be very thankful.

Thank You

shardian:
The game will try to fire a coil so many times before it realizes something is wrong. It then creates an operator report for when the game is turned on the next time.

So...it means one of your coils is malfunctioning.

Jeff AMN:
It doesn't always mean that something is wrong with the coil, however. For example, on my LOTR I've had issues with the sword ramp coil not releasing balls for multiball and I've had the bad coil report. All I had to do to fix it was tighten up the whole assembly and it performed perfectly afterwards. When it gives you that bad coil warning, it could be anything from the coil itself failing to anything in the entire assembly. Basically the game is saying that the coil has been sent the signal by the CPU to activate but that the desired result hasn't occurred.

Coils very, very, rarely go bad. You're probably looking at something related to that coil, but not the coil itself.

What issues have you seen with your game that would cause it to give you that error?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on October 16, 2009, 11:04:46 am ---Coils very, very, rarely go bad.

--- End quote ---


Sure they do.  Frequently.  They don't go bad own their own but they fry themselves all the time if they get locked on. 

Jeff AMN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 16, 2009, 11:13:25 am ---
--- Quote from: Jeff AMN on October 16, 2009, 11:04:46 am ---Coils very, very, rarely go bad.

--- End quote ---


Sure they do.  Frequently.  They don't go bad own their own but they fry themselves all the time if they get locked on. 

--- End quote ---

Well sure, but that's not a coil issue as much as something else. It's just like a bulb dome will melt if the bulb stays on constantly as well.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page