Homemade pinball problem.

[JayWay1982]

I'm working on a very simple home made pinball. I have 48V DC power going to a solenoid but I don't want to burn out the solenoid when the flipper is held. I have an end of stroke switch but I need to know the SIMPLEST way to step the power down when it hits the switch? It would be nice if the solenoid I have was already wired to step down it's own power. I don't really know how to tell. I'll include a picture. Any advice on how to wire it would be helpful thanks.

 

[FireSlash]

Your best bet is to look at flipper assemblies from early SS games. Steve has a really good writeup on this here: http://stevekulpa.net/pinball/bally_flipper1.htm

For simplicity's sake I'd just copy the wiring from whatever machine you ripped the flipper assemblies from, as then you can just drive them like all your other solenoids and let the EOS switch do the flipper-specific work instead of worrying about doing it at logic level.

 

[JayWay1982]

Thanks for the link.