Hey All! We’ve had our Batman for about two weeks now, and we LOVE it. Added the PinSound board and working on upgrading the power supply to support it. I can’t believe that I waited so long to get a pinball (of course, cost was a big factor) but these machines are a ton of fun.

Longtime lurker, now membership-ized, lover of DE machines. Here is a pic of Catwoman playing my beloved Batman.

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Hey All! Having issues with the display on Batman. It will be fine for a few games and then just goes blank. I’ve unplugged and reattached connectors, but same issue happens...will be fine for a while and then goes blank. Any suggestions where to start?

No change when wiggling, so I’ll try cleaning them up with alcohol.
It has a relatively new power supply board...I think I replaced it 5-6 months ago.
The issue seems to be related to gameplay and heat buildup. I can leave it in attract mode for hours but then if people start to play it heavily then it will stop working after 20-30 minutes of play.

Definitely seems to be heat- related, as it will do just fine in attract mode for hours.

All the connectors look fine. Have played a few games at various times throughout the last few days and the issue has not replicated. Will do some testing when the issue rears it’s head again!

Target Bar on the Flugleheim Museum has stopped registering hits. I’m not at home right now so I’ll post pics tonight but when I removed the door motor bracket I found a broken wire...so I thought “that explains it”! I stripped some length off of the two ends, twisted and soldered them together and wrapped in electrical tape. Still no worky...no hits register. So I thought, okay maybe the contacts on the leaf switches need cleaned (there are two). Did the business card cleaning trick, reattached everything, still nothing. So then I tried to give the leaf switches just a little bend...nada.
As I thought more about that broken wire, I realized that the break was right at one of the zip ties which appeared to be original factory ones. So now I’m thinking that maybe that wire wasn’t broken...maybe it was meant to be cut like that? But the logic in me says that there are only two wires coming from those leafs...it has to complete the circuit somehow!
Separate question but related...what part of those leaf switches are making contact and supposed to stay closed (I assumed it was the part that faces the playfield) and how do you get the door out of there...do you have to remove all of the screws? It looked like the door would just slide out of the track from the playfield side, but there must be something on the backside of that plastic piece that is resisting removal from the topside.

This is where the wire appeared to be broken/cut so I soldered it together.

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So, here’s a crazy thing. I decided to put the original sound mix back on the PinSound and everything works just dandy. Has anyone else encountered this? Maybe something with the code in the new sound mix causes other bits to go goofy and not work? That doesn’t make much sense, but it certainly worked for me. I wasn’t even trying to fix the issue by changing it...I just decided that I wanted to go back to the original soundtrack for a while. Weird!