Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1991-April - Vol 13 Issue 2

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Silver Slugger
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Troubleshooting The Switch Matrix
Evan Wessel
Mercury Amusement
Havertown, Pennsylvania
PROBLEM
Every time the right or left flipper
is activated, all the switches in
their respective return line are
activated.
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MATRIX
The lane change is activated by a
sensor board that signals the
CPU when the flipper is ener-
gized. When this board is discon-
nected, the problem goes away.
Everything on this sensor board
seems to check out ok.
RETURNS
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The symptom is that of a matrix
driver shorted to ground, either
in the wiring or on the logic
board, or one of the returns be-
ing shorted to ground. It could be
almost anywhere. the playfield,
the logic board, or that board
that checked OK. Try looking at
the strobe and return with a logic
probe.

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DRIVER
BOARD
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The matrix problem in the Silver
Sluggerwas caused by a shorted
lamp driver transistor of all
things. Apparently. this problem
was caused by someone shorting
across the coin switch terminals.
frying a diode and taking out the
driver board.
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