The Flip

2024-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

The problem I started out with was that the ball lift motor was not working. It worked before I moved it.
I got out the manual and ran through some self-test stuff. Everything worked except the sound and the ball lift motor.
After some disassembly, I found that the ball lift motor wasn’t connected. But where should of it have gone to?
In the backbox there was a connector of the right shape but the wrong pins were hooked up.
Tracing the wiring led me to discover that the speaker connector and the ball lift motor had the same connectors. The labeling on them were messy, so I had them hooked up incorrectly. Fortunately, the speaker connector was wired differently, so the speaker was unharmed.
I hooked them up properly and labeled the motor connections. My label printer worked pretty well for that. I need to experiment more and start a policy of just labeling everything that could be ambiguous.
Putting it back together went reasonably smoothly. Some of the balls looked a bit grubby, so I polished them all.
It’s now in working order! I played a game and the noise is a bit overwhelming. There are on-line mods for quieting things. I should have some sort of policy there. A good item for the [[ChicagoPinbalMuseum/Newsletter]].

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