What If I Hook up a Flipper Coil Wrong in a Fliptronics Game?
If the wires are reversed or incorrectly attached to a flipper coil on a fliptronics WPC game, damage will occur to the flipper coil and the fliptronics board. The first thing that happens is the flipper fuse will blow on the Fliptroncs board. Turn the game off, and wire up the flipper coil correctly (see the above information and pictures). Next replace BOTH 1n4004 diodes on the flipper coil, and replace the blown fuse. You can try powering up the game, but I would suspect the driving TIP36 transistor on the fliptronics board will also be shorted. (This is easy to tell, as the flipper coil will stay energize as soon as the game is powered up or a game is started.) Also check all the 1n4004 diodes in that flipper circuit on the Fliptronics board with a DMM. There is a good chance the ‘hold’ TIP102 and 2n4403 transistors may be bad too, which you can test with a DMM. Lastly, check the traces on the back of the fliptronics board coming from the top J902 connector. Often the hold traces w
