I removed the larger coils and went back to lightning flippers. The balls kept flying off the rails. They still do sometimes. It is hard game and it has really grown on me. I didn't love it at first either.

There are three different multiball modes and they are started three different ways, stack them by starting one, then the next while still in multiball from the first, etc... They run at the same time with 3x scoring. 30 mil per shot instead of 10 mil per shot.

Fun game.

Shorter lever = less leverage.

These coils are quite strong and don't seem to have any load/speed degradation, so they travel at the same speed with the longer bat as they do with the short bat. It seems that they are limited by the coil sleeve friction more than the length of the flipper. So a longer flipper will move faster at the tip. You may have a point though, more length will cause more resistance. Remember, we are also only talking about 1/8th of an inch here, so the wider gap SDTM could be a bigger factor.

I put the shorter bats on my machine to reduce ball speed because the strength of the flippers was causing the ball to jump off the rails and it worked.

This thread shows a number of pinsiders that have changed them out for a longer bat because they felt disadvantaged by them. Therefore, it stands to reason that some effect on the gameplay does exist.

I believe this was the point in contention...