I have ACDC Luci and the only annoying thing that's happened a few times now is that when I hit the central target of the AC/DC targets, the target sometimes sits there as solid as a rock... yet if the ball so much as tickles it while it trickles past it; then it drops...

Anyone have the same issue?

More importantly, anyone have a solution for it??

Any links to the best one

I learned to do the same thing too... Would be nice to fix it tho... If only to stop the insults at my poor aim when I hit it dead center!!

I wonder how it happens... it's very weird... the targets don't seem to move at all... it's not like they bounce back onto the latch before they have time to drop... they just don't move... yet a gentle shot will knock them down without an issue... I'm struggling to imagine how it's possible...

My Luci is 2nd hand, no idea how many games it has on it, uploaded new code when I got it and didn't think to check the audits to look at the mileage before I did it...

So did you try putting the black rubbers back to see if it fixed it?

But when hit directly and strongly there appears to be no deflection... but why? And if it DOES deflect when hit directly and strongly (but simply happens too quick to be seen), then WHY doesn't it drop when it does drop when hit lightly?

I get that different rubbers affect it, which implies that deflection DOES happen, but why doesn't it drop if deflection happens regardless of what rubber is behind it?

Does it deflect and bounce back onto the latch? Seems like the most plausible explanation I guess... Only a hard hit could make it bounce back before the spring would have chance to pull it down... in which case a stronger pull-down spring could be the answer... or some energy adsorbing foam behind the target so it doesn't bounce back...

Maybe that's why the less bouncy black rubber is better at preventing the problem... What doesn't make sense there though is that the rubber behind the targets is a very long rubber which is free to move into a large space behind it... so even with less bouncy black rubber, it will still move out of the way and return to it's original position just like a bouncy white rubber... the bounciness of a rubber is only really relevant when the ball (or target in this case) hits it when it's in direct contact with a solid object, like a post, behind it... the rubber has to get compressed for its bounciness to be relevant... here it can't get compressed because of the massive space behind it.

Now that would be cool!! The big question on my mind at the moment is: Does the target actually deflect (hence come off its latch) and get bounced back on the latch before it has a chance to get pulled down by the spring, or does it not even leave it's position (i.e. stays fully on the latch). When I see it happening, I'm kind of staring at the targets lining my shot up from the cannon, so I seem to be paying attention, and I don't seem to see them move at all, they are solid... so I don't think they even touch the rubber behind them... I will pay more attention next time!