Nice work! I did not know anything about Cuphead till this thread. Cool theme choice. I agree with you on preferring to do the hands on mechanical stuff over the MPF. Although it is so rewarding when you see the system actually do what you want after hours of trial and error. I am just getting back into working in MPF on my Joust project. I want to include some animations from the arcade game in my screens as well. The MPF community is very helpful and Jan is super responsive. Good choice on the CobraPin board. I have a power filter from him and it works great. He is also very responsive.

You might want to try this 30 degree ball eject mechanism from pinball life instead.

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I am running 28v and have 80's vintage Williams 3 bank drop targets which are similar to those modern ones. The coils are SA-23-850. I could not find vintage single bank targets used so I got some modern ones from Pinball life as well. the AE 26-1200 coil is barely enough to pop them up. I ran into the same thing with the modern ball trough I got. It comes with the same AE 26-1200 for the ball eject. I swapped those out for AE 23-800 I got new and it works like a charm. The next build I do I am going to go higher voltage.