Hi all, and Happy New Year!
I have an issue with my STTNG - probably of my own making. I was rebuilding the flippers just before Christmas; left lower flipper went great and tested fine. I put the lower right together though, and when I tested it I could smell burning - lifted up the play field and smoke was bellowing out of the lower middle diverter coil. The pin still turns on, but won't start a game. I haven't looked at it since, as I wanted to cool down and look at it fresh. I assume I fried the coil and will need to replace it, but have two main questions:
1) Any ideas how I managed this? I didn't replace the eos switches (not sure if it would be those anyway?). Is it unrelated?
2) Any thoughts on what else I might've broken in addition to the coil (which I only noticed due to the smoke).
As you can probably guess, I'm a newbie at this, but want to learn and am determined to try to fix this myself. I have a soldering iron (fairly confident in my ability), and a new multimeter (haven't used one in 15 yrs+, so a little less confident). I'm still getting used to the test menu's in the pin, so please bear that in mind too.
I have time in the evenings this week to work on it while the family are away, so figured I'd ask you guys in advance so I have some pointers on where to start. I'll need to order parts, but would be good to order everything at once if possible.
Any help or advice is welcome, and thanks in advance.
Paul
I have an issue with my STTNG - probably of my own making. I was rebuilding the flippers just before Christmas; left lower flipper went great and tested fine. I put the lower right together though, and when I tested it I could smell burning - lifted up the play field and smoke was bellowing out of the lower middle diverter coil. The pin still turns on, but won't start a game. I haven't looked at it since, as I wanted to cool down and look at it fresh. I assume I fried the coil and will need to replace it, but have two main questions:
1) Any ideas how I managed this? I didn't replace the eos switches (not sure if it would be those anyway?). Is it unrelated?
2) Any thoughts on what else I might've broken in addition to the coil (which I only noticed due to the smoke).
As you can probably guess, I'm a newbie at this, but want to learn and am determined to try to fix this myself. I have a soldering iron (fairly confident in my ability), and a new multimeter (haven't used one in 15 yrs+, so a little less confident). I'm still getting used to the test menu's in the pin, so please bear that in mind too.
I have time in the evenings this week to work on it while the family are away, so figured I'd ask you guys in advance so I have some pointers on where to start. I'll need to order parts, but would be good to order everything at once if possible.
Any help or advice is welcome, and thanks in advance.
Paul