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CONGO CLUB....Owners Only!

By kidpinballwizard

10 years ago


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#2538 1 year ago

Hi all new Congo owner here. Couple questions.

1. Should the volcano loop shot be available whenever the lock is not lit? Sometimes when I make the shot I get the “5 million!” Call out but instead of looping it catches the ball and spits it back out the volcano. Does this shot need to be qualified or should the diverted only be up when lock is lit?

2. Sometime my volcano attempts to eject balls even when none are locked or before a multi ball should be active. Is this a common issue? Known solutions?

Since the two issues I’m having are with the volcano I wonder if they’re related? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

#2540 1 year ago
Quoted from Mikespinball:

I had an issue with the volcano kicking balls out whenever it wanted to. Did alot of diagnostics and came to the conclusion that there was an issue with the CPU board. Sent it in for repairs. It came back, worked for awhile and the issue came back, but worse. All seem to check out okay with the volcano in switch test. It puzzled me. I finally rechecked the optos on the volcano. They worked, but were very dim lite compaired to the trough optos. I then replaced all the transmitter and reciever optos for the volcano and have never had another issue.
Might check your volcano optos as they could be your problem.
Good luck,
Mike

Thank you. I’ll start by cleaning them and move forward from there. Any insight about the diverter in the volcano orbit lane? Should it only be up when the lock is lit?

#2541 1 year ago
Quoted from The_Pump_House:

Trying to dial in my Congo and the only place I'm stuck is on the map hole. I sends the ball to the top post of the right slingshot and I would like it to cleanly move down close to the face of the right slingshot.
The coil, sleeve, stop ect are all clean and in good condition. The ball eject, like the mystery hole, is a pretty soft hit from the coil. During coil test the coil fires much harder (albeit too hard) and sends the ball on exactly the path I want.
Is my playfield too steep?
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My playfield is set around 7.5 degrees and the map sling ejects the ball right around the middle of the right flipper if that helps at all.

#2542 1 year ago
Quoted from KilaOhm:

Thank you. I’ll start by cleaning them and move forward from there. Any insight about the diverter in the volcano orbit lane? Should it only be up when the lock is lit?

Update: cleaned the optos. Found a piece of a sticker near one. Could have been tricking it into thinking there was a ball in the chamber. Removed it and haven’t had an issue so far. Fingers crossed. Thank you for the help

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