Pre-Fliptronics games need a driver board with the flipper relay
Games before Addams Family switch the flippers through a relay on the driver board. A-12697-3 and -4 boards have no relay and will leave the flippers dead in these games; use an A-12697-1.
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Related tips
- Pre-Fliptronics: weak flipper
- Pre-Fliptronics: a flipper does nothing
- Pre-Fliptronics: flippers work even with no game running
- Pre-Fliptronics: flipper lane change does not work
- Flipper buttons not seen by the game (pre-Fliptronics)
- Pre-Fliptronics WPC flipper stuck up with power on: failed driver TIP102
- Replace the pre-driver along with a failed driver transistor
- Pre-Fliptronics flipper coil wiring
Source: Repairing Williams/Bally WPC Pinball Games from 1990 to 1999, Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)