Both of these pins came out much later after most who wanted it had already bought the earlier version. For superhero stuff I prefer the comics as that to me is the original version, which are often redone several times with films. For SW I prefer it based on the films as that is the version I remember growing up with and the comics came later.

I usually go LE because I'm a sucker for the mirrored back glass and getting the game a month sooner. Also there is something to be said for buying the best version of something even if you can do some of it yourself a little cheaper.

I got an email from mine saying they are likely shipping in the next week.

What testing was done? Some objective measure of how flipper power is related to coil temperature would go a long way in these arguments.

I did. Even streamed it with a real time view of an oscilloscope and thermocouple on the coil. The coil gets warm for sure and the resistance in the coil goes up when it gets warm but just a couple ohms. I looked at the pulse to the coil and it was always about 37 ms independent of the coil temperature. The voltage across the coil also didn't change over time. At the time I was doing it I figured I would see the time the coil was energized getting longer as the coil took longer to get to the limit switch but this never happened. Thus, I was never actually able to quantify any weakness over time. In hindsight maybe limit switch isn't used for changing the pulse duration like it is on some older games.

Like others I have felt on occasion that the coil got weaker with time. I felt this was especially the case with the TK lock on NST. I have not noticed the effect on other new Sterns but I know others believe it is there. I don't have an issue with my NST anymore after doing a number of fixes and I actually had to turn the powder down it get it to work properly.

I think the key would be trigger off the coil then use a second channel of the oscilloscope to monitor an accelerometer on the flipper or the end of range switch to see if the performance changes over time. Maybe I'll do this at some point, I'm just not as motivated at the moment because I feel like I'm not experiencing any issue.

That analysis deals mostly with the steady state or in pinball terms the holding power after the flipper is up. The magnetic field is proportion to the current and in the steady state (DC) there is no inductive reactance so I = V/R so if the coil resistance goes up by 30% then you have a big drop in current. The power that is relevant for making shots is right after the voltage step where the inductive reactance of the coil (inductor) is likely to be large relative to the resistance due to the changing magnetic field in the coil. The relative size of the inductive reactive relative to the electrical resistance depends on the inductance of the coil used, which I haven't measured but I would guess is relatively large.

My whole point of this is that I think it would be useful to measure what is actually happening rather than just say someone missed a couple shots because the coils are getting hot.

I hope this isn't off topic it what seems to becoming a flipper coil cooling thread, but I'm curious how many people play the Battle Royale mode on their games? If you hold in both flippers for a few seconds before starting a game it will let you select it. Talking to a few fellow owners it seems many don't even know it is there. I recently did a stream where I mostly played this mode:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/774219479

Thanks for positing this. I made my own version last night and I feel like it greatly reduces the rejects on this shot. The piece I used was about 25 x 95 mm.

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