I hope Your recovery Goes well.Thanks for all the helpful information across multiple threads.

New click record last night. 36 clicks before it stopped. May 3 build LE

Same here - still waiting for Premium- it was a day one order- hopefully soon

I'm sorry so many of you are getting clicks or whatever. Is this something new that started? Mine doest do it at all and I haven't heard about this on machines up till this point.

Just curious, how many of the clicks crew folks have resulted in a failed condition? Or does it eventually boot?

It clicks while the game is booting up. Mine does one or two clicks but I had to have all the noise in the room off and had to really listen for it. Game play is normal on mine.

One click is pretty normal. Maybe even two. The number of people getting high single digit and double digit clicks at boot (some to the point of crashing and not booting occasionally) is not normal.

Mine is a very early run Premium (was a show game at TPF) and I’ve never heard a click, ever. Must have changed components or something for the production run.

I've only seen a couple reports of clicking past 50 and failing to boot. Most eventually boot, but it takes a little to a lot longer than it should.

Has anyone with the suspect power board had freezes and reboots? I have swapped for another one and no clicking and game seemed solid.

Yea, that would be another good addition for the next update!

What happens when 10 lightning bolts are collected ? I understand the rules with the ramps ,and know I have been collecting when both ramps are lit , I’m just looking if anyone knows if the game announces it with a callout or what happens to let you know it’s starting .When I get a good game going ,I am locked in and focused straight at the flippers haha. It’s starting to slow down a tad and hope it does a little more so I can start getting an occasional blowup .My best games have been in the 350-475 range and looking to get over this hump .I’ve recently started bringing the van mods in more and more ,I try to bring Area 51 into a mode/mb combo but just read about spreading it out some ,building the rock o meter , collecting bolts , on and on I’m thinking faster and have most the rules down , Im hitting shots , I’m nudging well but just can’t break free !! Help !!!! haha

Here's a horror story that just happened to me:
So I'm playing trying to get to 1 billion for the first time like always. I am on ball 3, just finished up my first 3 cities and I hear my wife yelling from upstairs. I have the van lit and I'm ready to hit the left ramp and enter Austin mini wizard mode. I get the ball trapped and hold it there so I can yell back to my wife to see what she wanted. She yells at me to turn it down a bit. I think ok, I got this held, I am good. I then open the coin door to turn down the volume a couple notches...you know, for my LOVING, CARING, WIFE - and I forget that that causes the ball to drain.

So there I am watching my last ball drain and looking up at my 760 million score...knowing that I was going to be able to complete Austin and FINALLY join the billion club.

Now...if anyone has any suggestions of ways I can annoy my wife for the rest of the day, I am all ears.

Need to put that coin door ball saver on in settings

I’d like to tell you what I did about “turn it down “ interruption here but I’ll keep to myself Haha ,it’s always at the worst time and I’m thinking about exterior volume settings because of it .Does anyone have them and are they good on the fly ?

What does that do ?

Wife is out tonight and wish I had Pinwoofer I would love them but do not get too many opportunities to go balls out until I have to spray insulation truck come by .I couldn’t fit the bats inside the way I built my ceiling so I’m going to have to spray in .I built trimmed bays and cut drywall tiles .Came out pretty nice .Cheap but time consuming that’s all

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I want it stuffed like a turkey .

So it would've put the ball back into play! I put it on all my games for a nightmare situation just like that..lol

I’m Motor Boating today ! F Yeah !! What a fricking rush !!!!!!! I walked away from a ball coming back from the OL on ball one kicking and screaming like a baby when failing to nudge out from the righ outlane ,but regrouped and had LA/A51/BF all going at the end on my last extra ball .It was one of those insane MBs where I locked in on the flippers and never looked up .It was a out of body experience hearing the pin blow up and looked like a lightning storm exploding all around me .Seems most balls were coming back on the flippers so I had the shots dialed in blind .Now this !!!!!…….is Fucking Pinball !!!!!!!!!!!! I need a drink

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Turns on ball save when you open the coin door.

Yes, I've got the PRmods that goes into the tournament plug just below the start button. I like it.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1430-pr-mods/07205-stern-pinball-cabinet-volume-switch-for-spike2-games

Thanks CW Such a good feeling getting a good game in early .Have my nieces fiancé over soon .He’s upset I sold DP and told him “I got you covered “

Thank you . Might wait to see how good the insulation does with muting the noise upstairs but still might put this on the “must” list going forward with the option of changing up on the fly .

10 Lightning hits starts a lightning mode where those shots are worth more. I haven’t noticed a callout or sound when it starts.

Definitely hoping there will be a callouts when both this and Sonic Radio modes start.

Probably not specific issue for this game, but on my news FF LE, the left flipper button has a bit of friction, like it is getting caught when pressed nearer to an edge. Is there a fix for this, or should I request a new one?

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Pull the c clip and sand the shaft, 5 minute fix

You could give her a wink and a how u doing

Your still breathing so that’s a start lol

Cmon it's easy . Clip comes off, about 10 seconds with fine grit sandpaper. Me, with ocd ,I did final sanding vertically so and ridges will be up and down, not circular

The power on clicking issue is a problem with the power supply.
I didn’t know until now that this was a common problem.
Happened on my Bond and I had a spare power supply, swapped it. Problem went away.
Threw the bad power supply away and didn’t think twice about it.

This question has been asked for years and years across all platforms and all walks of life. I'm sorta surprised confetti didn't fall from the ceiling when you made it as it is most likely the 1000th time this question has come up.

Take the button out, sand down the offending plastic part making it rough to push, then enjoy.

I’m really digging Chicago lately .It’s light show is pretty cool as is ,and I’m digging how much action is needed up top. Perfect mode (imo) for bringing in A51 and a MB for a long ,successful mode .

No. It's not. Not in this case. MAYBE the power supply was an issue with your machine, but in this case with the widespread Foo Fighters clicking, it's been narrowed down to the PDB.

You can take a PDB from a clicking machine and put it in a non-Foo machine that has worked fine (no power supply clicking) and the power supply in that machine will usually also start clicking. The clicking is coming FROM the power supply, but the PDB is causing the behavior. I've confirmed this myself. I have three PDBs now (two of which are brand new, just bought), including one of the week 52 ones that commonly have issues. That board causes power supplies to click in machines that formerly had no issues.

It's something about the PDBs from that time period. Once I've recovered from surgery a bit more next week, I can get back on it. I have 3 PDBs, new caps, new inductors, and an LCR-600 on hand to test both the caps and inductors to see if it points out issues with the actual parts. I'll get to the bottom of it. There's definitely a problem and I'm fairly certain it's not in the power supply.

As requested, a pic of my clicking PDB with the caps. Code on the caps is 2245P.

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I wish we got door interlock switches here in Australia

Such a great feature

Is it possible to add easily ?
Any threads for this ?

External volume. Two options.

https://www.pinballlife.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PBL-100-0062-00

Or

https://www.pinballlife.com/stern-spike-2-headphone-jack-assembly.html

Roger that, power supply fixed it for me. So who knows. Maybe it was a different issue in my Bond. But it was similar, power on and click click click for a while then boot. Swapped Power Supply, issue went away. Maybe it was an issue with the combination of the power supply and PDB that I had.

Looks like Foo LE ratings have posted. Foo has a pretty good lead over the lizard.

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Doesn't this get updated weekly, in like 15 hours or so?

Yep, you are right. Let’s see how Foo fares the next cycle. Still not sure why JP is in the top 10.

https://pinwoofer.com/pinwoofer-spike-2-cdu-kit/
Best option!!

The pinwoofer one is nice because it has a switch you can disable it with. Stops kids from making changes while playing

Is it because it's a ridiculously bad ass game? With great flow and rewarding shots?

Upgrade is in

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You.... what. Game is incredible.

Anyone have an ideas why my expression lights on LE are not lighting? Check all connections look good. Default setting in menu. Node board tests are good. No tech errors. Not sure they did work when received but noticed today not working.

No mods just stock game.

Foo is going to take a hit, probably down to three or four, judging by recent reviews. Personally, though I like Godzilla a ton, I like Foo better, but I also am saying this completely as a fairly beginner location player. After I take delivery on my Foo, and get at least a few months under my belt (and hopefully eventually get a Godzilla too), we'll see if I still like FF better.

I like the fact that JP is in the top 10. It's a brutal game, and brutal games tend to get hammered in rankings in most communities, even if they're very well made. I like how pinside likes JP for what it is and recognize how well it is made. I want to get that game too, eventually (though I might pick up a TMNT first, since they're cheaper xD)

Foo green is sooo niice.