Black Hole up-kicker on a pop bumper driver board
If you do convert Black Hole: the coil's ground lug (non-banded diode side) goes to board pin 1; the original driver board wire that fed the coil now goes to pin 4; pin 2 to solenoid ground, pin 5 to +5 V and pin 6 to logic ground.
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Source: Repairing & Upgrading Gottlieb System 80 Pinballs from 1980 to 1989, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)