Mine was random to which gate it sent the ball to not sure if mine was right tho either

You light targets spelling TOMCAT which then lights red light on the correct diverter. Then shoot ball in the upper right vuk and ball is shot into wire rack and rolls down to the diverter, diverter fires and puts ball into the lower wire rack. Then another ball is put into the shooter lane, you lanch into play and spell TOMCAT again and so on until you have three balls locked then spell TOMCAT with forth ball and put ball in VUK and a four ball multiball starts.

Go into solenoid test mode and see if the diverter arms work.

I believe they should go in order from bottom to top if you are looking at the lanes where the lights are. The bottom lock will light first, then middle, then top.

I am curious about this as well. Is it random? Also during the initial plunge of the game, what gate should the ball be entering? I noticed that during the plunge I have managed to get it into either of the top gates.

It will always divert the ball into a lit lock if there is one. Otherwise I think it's fairly random. I sometimes think it diverts into the centre lock with the most TOMCAT targets still to shoot for. That way when the ball ejects and loops round the top, when it gets to the flipper you've got better chance to light something.

The diverter sends the ball to the center lock that will shoot the ball out the loop to set you up for the best shot on the top TOM CAT targets.

So, it you have TO_ and C__ the diverter will drop the ball in the right lock, the ball Shoots out around the inner loop so that your lined up to hit the AT targets.

If you've already hit the CAT targets, the diverter drops in the left lock, so your lined up to hit the TOM targets once the ball is shot around the inner loop.

I thought I read this in the manual, but I might have just figured it out through playing around.

Thanks for the replies. It looks like mine is functioning correctly.