Quoted from pinballinreno:Definitely check for broken wires on the optos on the MPF.
You can test the optos with a finger on the MPF in test mode.
If optos are good then it can only be the solenoid not firing.
I hear what you are saying. And will try test mode next. I played a couple games today and it happened again.
So to be clear, the MPF is raising and lowering correctly to all three levels like it should. So that Opto is working.
The left Ball Lock Opto and coil are working perfectly too.
The right Ball Lock works correctly the first time in the game. The Light in front of it, is on steady with the ball in place. The DMD does its little movie where the half curtain goes around the right sided Doctor. So that tells me that the Opto sees that a ball is in place. Once all 15 mushrooms and light have been lit, the MPF drops to ground level and ejects both Locked balls, like it should. So that means that the coil is connected and firing. Once the MPF times out after getting some balls through the 3 red dalek doors, the MPF goes back down to ground level. And a Doctor mentions something about a timey wimey thing.
This is where it gets interesting (for me at least). If I lock a ball in the left Lock, without hitting the center target, the left coil shoots it out (usually SDTM). But then I get a "Second Chance" ball launch. The same thing used to happen on the right lock. But now the ball just goes into the right hole and the game waits a while, till it starts it "Ball Search 1, Ball Search 2 with raising MPF, and then it kicks the ball out and the game continues play with that ball.
However, if I hit the center target on round two, and lock the ball in the right or left hole, it registers that the balls are there. Once both balls are locked, I go into multiball Davros Mushroom bashing and then level 3 Dalek door time.