So just thought I’d update my STTNG journey.
Kinda gave up on January as needed to regain my enthusiasm as I was out of ideas and the damn thing didn’t make sense.
So I took some advice and send power driver and fliptronic board to mypinballs to either fix or eliminate them as the problem.
Turns out both were fine apart from the burnt out j120 header which Jim duly changed.
He also gave me some good tips as to what to look for.
So found a short on the launcher switch which was a diode that had been bent over, easy fix.
Installed boards with new ribbon cables and everything was working…. Until the top right flipper blew a fuse!
Tested the coil and it was reading low on the hold side.
I then remembered that at Christmas I’d found that that coil was hot and with the help of an email from Sean at pinball palace found it was the flipper opto not operating correctly.
So I changed the plastic actuator and problem sorted.
Changed the coil this week and bingo games all working!
Only took me about a year from when I bought it but then again Rome wasn’t built in a day
Thanks to everyone who helped and fed me info, it’s all very much appreciated.
Time to play a bit before the next stage