*Wisconsin Pinball

I can bring a game.

chrisnack wrote:Where is AFM?

AFM is at Pooley's.

I played about half a dozen games on the machine at Schwoegler's. That machine shoots very nicely. I really like the ball dropping out of the wireforms in front of the slings instead of the inlanes; reminds me a lot of High Speed. My top game was around 100k, so I didn't get to see much of the code....

Remember what they say. "The greatest day in a man's life is the day he buys his boat. The second greatest day in a man's life is the day he finally sells his boat." :lol: Unfortunately it will probably be a while before I can get another game, otherwise I would be very tempted by a few on...

I am looking forward to playing the machine at Schwoegler's tomorrow evening. Hopefully the lines will be shorter than at MGC.

Very tempting.

Last night I figured out how to wax the playfield and was going to give it a night of play to ensure that it will survive MGC. Moe and Trevor came over to help with that. Unfortunately during the second game, the game reset and I got the boot problem that I mentioned in my original post. According t...

Trevor and Moe came over last night and we replaced the two sets of driver and pre-driver transistors on the board. We also cleaned up and replaced the diode on the coil just to be safe. We powered the machine up and it worked, mostly. There was some weird behavior with the two drop targets where th...

Games? How many Aliens machines did you get?

Sounds like a plan. I ordered 10 of each transistor so replacing both sets won't be a problem. I'll also check the diode on the coil and replace that if that is bad as well.

The transistors are TIP122 and 2N4401 according to the manual. Several of the TIP122 have been replaced with TIP102.

pullt the board so you can test easier with it out of the game. Also be sure you test all combinations of red/balck on the legs. I never remember which is the right set of legs to test across but process of elimination will tell you. Very unlikely that you damaged any other coils as they are tough ...

Thank you everyone for your help with this. We tested the transistors with a DMM and the ones for the bad coil seemed to match the rest of the solenoid transistors, except the ones for one of the other drop targets kept reading open circuit which confused us. It might be nothing since it was tough t...

Yeah, I removed the plunger while I was trying to figure out how to remove the coil. I put it back in. Gonna clean up the solder and test the diode tomorrow. Anyone know what diodes these coils use? I scoured the manual and online and could not find a part number.

Thanks for the quick reply. I figured that SA5 might be a replacement for SA3, but wanted to be sure. I have a Craftsman DMM, not sure how good it is. I did a resistance check on all the coils and they all are about 4 ohms if I am reading this correctly. I'll desolder the diode and check that. Looks...