Dirty Harry

[TIME WARP]

Hi everyone,

I have a Dirty Harry, and the coils are weak, flippers are average, it takes about a dozen times to throw the ball out, but sometimes it throws out first time, but mostly it doesn't. plus had the BR3 replaced and tested with the correct voltage produced, I had this pin in dry storage since 2001, also some switches take time to register, especially in the trough jam, can anyone help, cheers.   

[Strangeways]

When the driver board was removed to replace BR3, were the header pins reflowed with Solder ?

J107 in particular. This is where the Solenoid voltage to the coils is sourced.

Pin 2 - Ball, Release, autoplunger, gun launch, top right popper, gun popper, knocker, trap door high
Pin 1 - Top left popper, left diverter, right loop gate
Pin 3 - Slings, pop bumper, left popper, ramp diverter, trap door hold

In the solenoid test, isolate the group of solenoids.

You also have fuses relating to the solenoids F103-F105. If you can isolate the solenoids to the fuses as per page 1-47 of the manual, then you may find a fuse that could be the problem. Could also be the fuse holder.

Flippers - check the Fliptronics board. Are the fuses ok ?

[TIME WARP]

Thanks will try the methods you have chosen, also about the solder on BR3, I have to ask the tech that repaired it, thanks once more, cheers

[DSB]

Most likely the capacitors on the driver board need to be checked/changed as well after being in storage for that long. A job that needs to be done carefully so as not to damage the tracks on the board. C8 would be the one I would look at first.