Here we go, down into the hole! Soldering, wiring, praying...
Have the first non plug & play type problem with my Pinbot... The drop targets aren't resetting. They're trying, but the coil is just pulsing. I cleaned up the mechanism as best I could without pulling it out of the machine, but it didn't help.
After having vids for so many years, its actually annoying how everything is soldered in a pinball machine, even microswitches that are lugged for connectors. Random little diodes and crap inline too. Seems so haphazard compared to vid wiring of the same era.
I ordered a Metcal soldering station and a few spare coils and parts to have on hand. I don't think I've actually soldered something since building RC airplane stuff 6 or 7 years ago. Even then, it wasn't a lot of soldering, so I'm freaking out a little bit.
I probably should have just started by checking coil voltages, which I'll still do before pulling it all apart but if I'm committing to this mess I'm going to start needing stuff like this anyway.
Have the first non plug & play type problem with my Pinbot... The drop targets aren't resetting. They're trying, but the coil is just pulsing. I cleaned up the mechanism as best I could without pulling it out of the machine, but it didn't help.
After having vids for so many years, its actually annoying how everything is soldered in a pinball machine, even microswitches that are lugged for connectors. Random little diodes and crap inline too. Seems so haphazard compared to vid wiring of the same era.
I ordered a Metcal soldering station and a few spare coils and parts to have on hand. I don't think I've actually soldered something since building RC airplane stuff 6 or 7 years ago. Even then, it wasn't a lot of soldering, so I'm freaking out a little bit.
I probably should have just started by checking coil voltages, which I'll still do before pulling it all apart but if I'm committing to this mess I'm going to start needing stuff like this anyway.
