• Game Plan Old Coney Island switch problem

    From Ron Kral@ronkral@gmail.com to rec.games.pinball on Thursday, September 01, 2022 13:02:00
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.pinball

    I'm working on a Game Plan Old Coney Island for a friend.
    There were LOTS of small issues that I fixed.
    A big one was replacing the targets. During that, one
    of the switch wires detached and I soldered it back.
    Correctly as near as I can tell.

    Before that, everything worked, sort of.
    Now, the flippers have stopped working AND
    SOME of the switches either do not cause any coil to
    fire OR cause the wrong coil to fire.

    The manual is pitiful - nothing on the switch matrix
    and no wire color codes for the switch wires.
    Regardless, I found the diagnostic mode for the
    coils and displays, but without documentation, I
    cannot guess if there's a switch diagnostic mode.
    IS THERE a switch diagnostic mode? How do I get
    into it? Is it numbered like the coil diagnostic mode?

    Any help greatly appreciated!
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  • From John Robertson@spam@flippers.com to rec.games.pinball on Thursday, September 01, 2022 16:08:47
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.pinball

    On 2022/09/01 1:02 p.m., Ron Kral wrote:
    I'm working on a Game Plan Old Coney Island for a friend.
    There were LOTS of small issues that I fixed.
    A big one was replacing the targets. During that, one
    of the switch wires detached and I soldered it back.
    Correctly as near as I can tell.

    Before that, everything worked, sort of.
    Now, the flippers have stopped working AND
    SOME of the switches either do not cause any coil to
    fire OR cause the wrong coil to fire.

    The manual is pitiful - nothing on the switch matrix
    and no wire color codes for the switch wires.
    Regardless, I found the diagnostic mode for the
    coils and displays, but without documentation, I
    cannot guess if there's a switch diagnostic mode.
    IS THERE a switch diagnostic mode? How do I get
    into it? Is it numbered like the coil diagnostic mode?

    Any help greatly appreciated!

    Pressing the Self Test button on the coin door 12 times will take you to Diagnostics from Bookkeeping:

    12th press - All lamps flash
    13th press - Displays all count 0 to 9 and repeat
    14th press - All solenoids fire sequentially
    15th press - All closed/stuck switches are shown. - raise drop any drop targets and remove the ball from the game.

    John :-#)#
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