Thank you.

I'm thinking long term of what to stock up on that might not be available someday.

Nah those are generic parts, dont expect those to be unobtainable. Also I never changed that part in over 7 years in this hobby owning 8 machines.

Agreed, these hardly ever wear out in a home environment. Just wipe them off.

A little rubbing alcohol cleans them right up.

Thanks. I'll save my money.

I'm having a problem with Ghostbusters Premium balls not detected in the subway tunnel so they don't eject in a timely manner. Stern tech support suggested I test each of the three pair of optical sensors.

What is the best method for testing each of the three pair of optical sensors in the subway tunnel?

When I hit one of my drop downs directly, it often doesn’t drop down. A glancing hit is always reliable.

I had to replace that (left) dropdown’s bracket immediately after my purchase recently, and saw that a previous owner had tried to poorly fix with random plastic piece. I replaced it with the right part, wasn’t able to get the fish paper part that goes next to it.

Is that the reason for my dropdown being stubborn? Or something else?

Stern drop targets are notorious for not dropping after hard direct hits. You could try to adjust the tension of the spring (pull a few loops to make it tighter) but it could just be how they are.

There are even after market springs pinball life sells to help with these drops but they have been problematic from the start

Looks like i need a splitter for CN14 so i can connect both boards (real knocker board and the power supply mod board)
Any tips ?

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If you bought a knocker kit you should have received everything you need to make the installation. Without having to buy anything extra. It was a simple install. The hardest part was figuring out with what kind of precision you want to use for installing the knocker plate. Answer: It does not have to be precise.

The problem is that both boards is installed the same way so since the knocker kit is already installed i have no way to connect the power supply mod board.

If you look at your power supply mod board, there are 2 connectors for power, one in power and one output. Connect the mod board input to the node board and the shaker to the output of the mod board. Check the instructions for your mod board to be sure.

Anyone here who has a laseriffic Ghostbusters topper installed ?
Not sure where the connector goes.

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Do you have a color dmd installed? If so, it is plugged in to the plug where the topper would plug in. I had to purchase a splitter to have both mods plugged in. Here is the one I got...

https://www.pinballlife.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PBL-600-0489-00

Thanks for the info

My right hand Scoleri Brothers drop target only works occasionally. The left side works fine. The right side will standup just every once in a while. I swapped the left hand and right hand Optos with each other and see no change, so it is not the Optos.

Any ideas where to look for this intermittent problem? Could it be something with the solenoid coil?

Thanks.

in the menu do they operate?

do they try to operate but just are not staying up? - if so could the plastic ledges in the mech

These two posts solved the same problem I was having. Take a look at your Scoleri's and apply these fixes.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghostbusters-club-we-got-one/page/213#post-6788784
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghostbusters-club-we-got-one/page/213#post-6788794

If you find that the plastic drop target rest ledge is broken, you can get replacements at Marco.
https://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch?SEARCH_STRING=545-6163-01

The left unit operates as it should. The right unit works sporadically.

When the right drop works, the drop target gets activated to the up position and stays there until I hit it with the ball. IOW, when it works it works 100% but it only works about 5% of the time. But most of the time it just stays down in it hole and does not come up at all.

I'm leaning towards thinking it is electrical and not mechanical. Tomorrow I will swap the left and right drops and see if the problem follows the drop.

That was me having the problem with the broken ledge. I got that fixed.

Just a heads up if you know anyone looking, thanks!

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OK. I swapped the Scolari Brothers targets. Right is now the left and visa versa. The problem follows the drop target itself. It looks good mechanically. but I don't know. I am going to have to take it apart for a closer look.

At least the problem is localized to the drop target and not something inside the control board.

To be continued...

That's good in a way as at least not a node board.

Is they any sensors on the mech - been a while since looked, maybe swap those and see if the problem jumps again.

I swapped the optos. The problem remains with the one drop target. As you said, it is not a node board. Just the optos that is attached to the drop assembly costs $70.00 !

I pulled the left drop target and removed each Molex pin from the connector wafer. All 4 of the connectors looked good. I also did the coil test and both drops were responsive during the testing.

It is back together now and both targets are working. So far.

It is a puzzle that I have not figured out. Hopefully both drops will keep on working.

good in a way but it is always nice to know what the definite problem is, fingers crossed all fixed and put it down to a bad molex connection

Finally got round to updating my GBLE from
1.16 to 1.17 code, as well as Color DMD to 4.2.

Not played a game yet..

OK. I have read some rules I found online. But since I brought GB home in December I have concentrated on working my ass off just to keep the ball on the play field ( I'm getting better ). I mainly shoot for whatever lights are blinking and changing colors.

I'll figure out all the rules, eventually. What I want to know is what drives the scores.

1) The right orbit skill shot sometimes is 1000 points, or maybe sometimes is 5000, or 6000, or 7000 points. There was one game that when I looked up the skill shot was worth 25,000,000. I don't know what I did for those kind of points.

2) The River Award for lots of times displays a score of 3,715,000, or 4,750,000. But one time I had a River Award of 48,000,000. I don't know how I did it.

I don't know what I did to get these scores.

Does anybody know? Or does anybody know what I need to be reading to figure this scoring out?

Thanks.

You can check here for the rules on those particular shots.

http://tiltforums.com/t/ghostbusters-pinball-rulesheet/1358

https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GB-Basic-guide.pdf

Each skill shot (top PKE lanes and blue arrows) award 5% of your score. Was it late in the game and you had a 500m score?

Did you have the 6x playfield multiplier running at the time?

I cannot answer those questions.

All I know is that one time, and one time only, I had a right hand orbit skill shot that rang up 25 milion and I am used to seeing 1,000 points or maybe 1500 points.

And for the River Award, one time I had 48 million points while most of the time the River Award points are rather predictable.

I wish I knew how I got these scores so I could perhaps do them again.

What are these two rubber bumpers that live in front of the fire station for? I cannot think of any useful purpose.

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I’m guessing to prevent stuck balls.

The multipliers are huge on GB. When you hit both 2x and 3x, ALL scores will be increased sixfold. Do that for a Storage Facility Multiball for instance and you can easily get hundreds of millions from one single MB round.

Great place for a fire hydrant mod.

That's a good idea.

Thats right where I put mine..

In case you know anyone looking!

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That sounds as good of a guess as any others.

Does anyone know anyplace that still has the Stern art blades for a Pro/Prem? PBL had them listed but when I went to order them they were gone.

Just finished making a topper with an Arduino controlling some LED grids and strip lights. I also created the custom background plastics.

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Great topper

And just to think Jersey Jack used cake toppers!!! Bwahaha. Nice GB pin Flasher

That’s nicer than sterns topper and very nice gb premium

Thanks for the props, ppl. I love this game. I even have a NOS playfield that has been clear coated sitting in my closet that I’ll probably never put in it.

A friend of mine has some parts from his old Ghostbusters LE.

PM if interested.

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Dumb question cause it’s been a while since I owned a gb preMium. Ghost is active when I begin game and hit that target slimer comes out and all is good. After that you can hit that target so many times and it adds points but does not award a ghost letter. Is this correct?? And if not, what is potential issue?

Thanks!

Anyone know of a complete list of Feature adjustments for the pro? Standard are in the manual, Feature are not.
Location game near me has a Slimer that's disconnected or broken and I'm wondering if I can turn it off in software so the game will light the scenes some other way.

Slimer can be disabled in the settings. (I don't remember which as I no longer have the game.) The GHOST target takes over to light scenes.