This is our first attach point, the ball lock switch under the clock
area. The blue tape reminds me that we will use the green/grey wire. |
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Here's the other attach point, the orange skill shot switch.
This
time, we will use the white/red wire. |
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To make this look neat, you will want to feed the wires
through the harness. Mostly, the existing cable ties have enough room to
take one more wire. It is easiest to feed the wire just under the clamp,
where there is usually a little space. In some places, you will have to
replace the tie with a new one. Install a new tie, then remove the old
one. |
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Here's the new connector, located near the playfield
passthrough hole at the top right of the playfield. The new opto
receiver connections will come through here and mate with it. |
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The green and white wires have a single cable tie on
them to keep them straight. |
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Here's the green wire going to the green/purple wire on
the ball lock switch. Put a cable tie on the three wires to hold them
together. Lay the green wire so that it sits on the connection at the
switch, then cut it. Strip about 3/16" of wire from the green
wire, and solder it onto the joint. Use the other wires and the cable
tie to make the wire sit in place on its own, if you can. |
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A close-up of the switch. |
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Here's the white wire running through the harness. |
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The white wire has a longer run. |
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And here is the connection to the orange skill shot
switch, same process as the green wire.
Once this is soldered, we are done with the soldering iron. |
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Here's another view of the white wire connection. |
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For the power for the emitter, we tap into the existing
emitter circuit. In this case, we use the IR LED for the lower right
spiral magnet. The normal current for these LEDs is 40mA. The parasitic
circuit takes it down to 35mA.
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Here's the parasitic connector. It can only go in one
way, and it doesn't matter which arm the emitters connect to. Yours will
have black and grey wires. |
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Installation is easy. Separate the emitter connectors;
insert the parasitic harness; rejoin the connector. In this case, my
emitter is off on a long cable for testing, but the cable will normally
go through the playfield hole. Disconnect this harness if you want to
play the machine before you finish the job. Otherwise, your right magnet
opto will not work. |
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