I'm desperately seeking a kind-hearted Medusa owner who will kindly take a pic of the left zipper flipper coil and the small "opening coil" for the zipper flippers.  I have shown an example below but something showing greater detail is preferred.  I'm trying to determine if the present wiring on my machine is correct.

Wouldn't mind a picture of the knocker wiring as well, if you're in a good mood.

BUT, it just dawned on me...if you can even "describe" from left to right, the number and colour of the wires on each of the two coils, that would be just as good.    I'm especially interested in the two orange/green wires.


Thanks in advance.

does that help?
http://mrhide.pinnesota.org/mhgallery/v/old/medusa/medusa_22.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

Thanks Phil.  I'll work with that for a while.  Just to check, it looks like there is nothing on the third lug of the small coil in the middle of the pic (zipper flipper opening coil ).  Is that correct ?

If anyone else wants to offer a pic, it would be great for comparison.

There, took a few pictures of mine as well, they are uploading to Picasa.

Here --> http://picasaweb.google.com/Sy.....&feat=directlink

Hope that helps,
Sylvain

Phewfff !   With the help of Sylvain and Phil, I managed to solve the 2nd most annoying problem I've come across in my mere 2.5 years in this hobby.   It was, as suspected, a number of 'hacks' which resulted in power flowing somewhere it shouldn't or going the wrong way or whatever.  I don't even really know what the problem was.  With the aid of some pics ( see Phil and Sylvain above ), I was able to properly wire up the offending coils.

Did I say Phewff already ?

Quoted from mrniceguy

Phewfff !   With the help of Sylvain and Phil, I managed to solve the 2nd most annoying problem I've come across in my mere 2.5 years in this hobby.   It was, as suspected, a number of 'hacks' which resulted in power flowing somewhere it shouldn't or going the wrong way or whatever.  I don't even really know what the problem was.  With the aid of some pics ( see Phil and Sylvain above ), I was able to properly wire up the offending coils.

Did I say Phewff already ?

Hey Glenn

are you still in brampton?

Congratulation for the problem resolved!

cool ..   I think I actually posted these pictures after "playing" with a similar issue around it and thinking " that might help someone someday ..."  Glad it was you !

so what was it? wires to the wrong lug? or diode(s) ?

Awsome Glad i could help !

sorry but it s not solved...
zipper flipper never stay closed when drop target is touch they always opening...and drop target sequence is fucked...
well im caught with this trouble and knocker still knock for nothing!!!

Quoted from DavidC

sorry but it s not solved...
zipper flipper never stay closed when drop target is touch they always opening...and drop target sequence is fucked...
well im caught with this trouble and knocker still knock for nothing!!!

Je me trompe peut-être mais je continue de croire qu'il y a un problème de diode sur un ou plusieurs des coils en question.
Je les changerais toutes pour en être certain et ca ferais un upgrade de fait au niveau fiabilité. Aussi il y a peut-etre un coil qui a été changé avec le temps. Sur les Bally, parfois certain coil doivent avoir 2 diodes même si ce n'est pas un coil de flipper et le remplacement n'est n'aurais qu'une ce qui ne l'empêcherait pas de fonctionner mais fait réagir d'autre coils en même temps.

Quoted from HAL-9OOO

Je me trompe peut-être mais je continue de croire qu'il y a un problème de diode sur un ou plusieurs des coils en question.
Je les changerais toutes pour en être certain et ca ferais un upgrade de fait au niveau fiabilité. Aussi il y a peut-etre un coil qui a été changé avec le temps. Sur les Bally, parfois certain coil doivent avoir 2 diodes même si ce n'est pas un coil de flipper et le remplacement n'est n'aurais qu'une ce qui ne l'empêcherait pas de fonctionner mais fait réagir d'autre coils en même temps.

Tous les coils qui sont controllés par le SEB doivent avoir 2 diodes... je suis presque sure de mon coup! Verifie la doc pour savoir quels coils sont controllés par le SEB et assure toi qu'ils ont deux diodes. tu contre vérifier avec sylvain pour savoir si je me goure!

Good luck Belgian air force... tu va gagner la bataille!

Gino

je comprends tout ca...mais la je viens de perdre l eclairage de tous les INSERTS!!!
ostie de Bally a marde!!! oups scusez...
je sais pas pourquoi mais j ai un e douleur dans la region anale...ca fait mal!!! me serais fait fourer???

Quoted from DavidC

je comprends tout ca...mais la je viens de perdre l eclairage de tous les INSERTS!!!
ostie de Bally a marde!!! oups scusez...
je sais pas pourquoi mais j ai un e douleur dans la region anale...ca fait mal!!! me serais fait fourer???

David, if you remember correctly, Gino had the same problem on his Fathom at a meeting. All insert lights are fed by one of the bridge rectifiers on the power board. It just means that a bridge failed. Costs 6$ and take 5 minutes to fix...

No one can predict a failed BR. It just happens. especially on a 29-year-old game.

Quoted from DavidC

  
....ostie de Bally a marde!!!

Tu l'as dit....

Quoted from Sparky

David, if you remember correctly, Gino had the same problem on his Fathom at a meeting. All insert lights are fed by one of the bridge rectifiers on the power board. It just means that a bridge failed. Costs 6$ and take 5 minutes to fix...

No one can predict a failed BR. It just happens. especially on a 29-year-old game.

Ou ben juste un crisse de connecteurs encore.... Souviens toi, "ostie de Bally a marde"!!

lol
les inserts c est pas trop grave par contre le probleme supposement resolu est encore la!!!

mais bon j ai sorti le PF je passe l aspirateur dedans car qlq bouts de fils vis et autres traine dedans...une chance que l esthetque est beau...au fait un pop bumper cap s est brisé pendant le transport...est ce que klk un aurait ca? un avec la tet de meduse dessus...

merci

Si jamais tu as des doutes et t'as besoin de photos précises pour un endroit, laisse-moi savoir ca me feras plaisir de t'aider.

merci Sylvain mais j ai vu les photos que t as envoyées a Glenn et mon fillage est pas pareil sur les coils des zipper flippers... , supposement arrangé...

T'es vraiment pas chanceux David avec tes games importé
Remarque ça peut se produire ici aussi,reste que le transport est quand moin long
Lache pas David