Hey... I am helping my father with his Terminator 2 pinball which recently has been having problems with the right flipper. The game worked flawlessly up until about a month ago when the flipper started getting really weak. At that point I noticed that the capacitor on the right flipper switch (at the button) was completely burned up. Riptor provided me with a few new ones.... (see here: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=123241) so that has been replaced. Also, one of the wires coming from the yellow capacitor on the flipper assembly was snapped and barely touching its connection point. We installed a flipper rebuild kit on both flippers and a new coil on the right flipper as the one that was installed there was "too big".
So tonight...
1- All of that installed we powered the game on and immediately upon pushing the right flipper button the fuse blows.
2- We replaced the fuse and powered the game on again but instead of starting the game we ran a switch test on that switch and as soon as it was triggered the fuse blew again.
3- As one last check I plugged the right flipper wiring into the left flipper switch molex to see if it was the capacitor on the right flipper button switch but the fuse blew right away there too.
I checked all of the wiring and all of my solder joints and everything looks clean. Did a general scan over the flipper section of the pcb and didn't see any burned resistors or caps or anything. I'm completely lost as to where to go from here... any ideas? It was recommended to just remove that capacitor alltogether from the flipper button switch but seeing as the left flipper works fine but the right flipper when plugged into the left flipper button switch still blows the fuse I don't think that's it. Help!!!
So tonight...
1- All of that installed we powered the game on and immediately upon pushing the right flipper button the fuse blows.
2- We replaced the fuse and powered the game on again but instead of starting the game we ran a switch test on that switch and as soon as it was triggered the fuse blew again.
3- As one last check I plugged the right flipper wiring into the left flipper switch molex to see if it was the capacitor on the right flipper button switch but the fuse blew right away there too.
I checked all of the wiring and all of my solder joints and everything looks clean. Did a general scan over the flipper section of the pcb and didn't see any burned resistors or caps or anything. I'm completely lost as to where to go from here... any ideas? It was recommended to just remove that capacitor alltogether from the flipper button switch but seeing as the left flipper works fine but the right flipper when plugged into the left flipper button switch still blows the fuse I don't think that's it. Help!!!
