Agree 100%. If you are going to add these things to a Premium go ahead and buy the LE. You have a much better resale that way as an LE will always sell for more than a Premium, and if you add these things to a Premium you will more than likely not get your money back out of these add-ons when you do sell it.

This time though....that yellow armor alone is making me choose a Premium!!!

The more video snippets of the screen Stern releases, the more I like them. They seem to have achieved the look of the 60s and 70s Marvel cartoons from Saturday mornings with more detail. For you young whippersnappers who weren't around back then plenty of them can be found on youtube for comparison.

Agree on Immigrant Song for Thor......However, I'm waiting to see how it sounds in person, but if it disappoints then maybe cleland will save us!!

The Pro I played yesterday had the lowest outlane holes for the posts, and was that way from factory.

LOTR has the problem with flipper coils overheating as well, and a different coil is the cure there. I wonder if a more powerful coil that is turned down in the settings would be a possibility for AIQ? Looking at the manual it shows a 090-5032-ND coil, anyone know how it crossreferences in strength with other Stern coils?

What about the flipper coil strength setting in the Adjustments that are now available? What I'm saying is install the stronger coil, then turn it down in power in the settings. Using a stronger coil and hitting it will less power from the driver board so that it equals the strength of the stock coil should cause the stronger coil to run less hot as the stock coil as it is receiving less power.

Yes, where there are no Adjustments for flipper coil strength a stronger coil will overpower the playfield and break things, however with the adjustable flipper coil menu adjustment it should work.

It shouldn’t fade as less current being sent to the coil means less heat is being produced and needing to be dissipated, which means it’s not overheating. If it’s not overheating it’s not fading.

It may take some trial and error to find the right combo of coil and coil strength setting, but once it has been figured out it will work. They do the same thing at Stern when they are engineering a game to determine the right coil and coil settings for a particular game, it just turns out that this time they may have missed it.

Interesting, did you adjust the flipper strength down in the adjustments to compensate for the stronger coil?

That makes me wonder if the quality of the power sent to the coils is suspect, as a dirty signal with too many harmonics can also produce too much heat in the coils. It could be that Stern is adjusting the flipper strength via PWM instead of actually lowering the current output, which could dirty up the power. Need to put an oscilloscope on it to see. If that is the case then there really may be no other way than solving it via active cooling. Really need to pick up a new scope.....

Fair enough, never a doubt that cooling does help, but ideally with a clean signal a stronger coil with lower current should as well. I've just ordered a cheapo handheld scope on Amazon, sold my big tube scope 15 years ago when I got out of the hobby. Got me curious now to check things out once my AIQ arrives.

Dagnabbit!! That does look fantastic.....Just got the shipping confirmation on the Tiltgraphics art blades and then you post those pics.......aarrrrggghhh!!!