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The glove doesn't move or grab balls, often after the game was turned on with the coin door open.

Johnny Mnemonic: glove doesn't work

Cause: The glove motor runs off the 20 V flasher supply, which shuts off with the coin door open, so the power-on glove test fails until the game resets. Otherwise the hand magnet wires break inside their insulation from movement.

Checks

  • Close the coin door and reset the game.
  • Check the hand magnet in solenoid test. With its driver board fuse good (probably F103), both magnet leads should show about 70 V; voltage on only one lead means a broken wire.

Fix

  • Replace the magnet leads with new stranded wire.

Systems

Games

Source: Repairing Williams/Bally WPC Pinball Games from 1990 to 1999, Part Three, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)