Flipper coils have two windings
A flipper coil has a heavy power winding that kicks the flipper up and a fine hold winding that keeps it up. It is the only coil that must carry diodes on the coil, and wiring it wrong can destroy those diodes and the flipper driver transistor.
Systems
- Williams System 11
- Williams System 11A
- Williams System 11B
- Williams System 11C
- WPC Alpha-Numeric
- WPC Dot Matrix
- WPC Fliptronics
- WPC DCS
- WPC-Security (WPC-S)
- WPC-95
Related tips
- How the two windings of a flipper coil work
- How the two windings of a flipper coil work
- Measuring a flipper coil's windings
- Replacing a flipper coil
- Testing flipper coil diodes
- How a System 11 flipper coil works
- How a two-winding flipper coil works
- Testing the diodes on a flipper coil
Source: Pinball Machines: How They Work & Troubleshooting, Norbert Snicer